Hawaiian shirts and fedoras

Lovely, all.^

My first time. Please be gentle. It's a Royal Creations I picked up cheap from eBay. The Panama is a 50s Wormser also an eBay find.

Bill Hughes said:

My first time. Please be gentle.

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Looks great Bill! And the hat complements it nicely.

Bill Hughes said:

My first time. Please be gentle. It's a Royal Creations I picked up cheap from eBay. The Panama is a 50s Wormser also an eBay find.

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Gentle?? Heck i liked it 10 years ago.
Still do.
You look marvelous for an old Jarhead.
B

Bill Hughes said:

My first time. Please be gentle. It's a Royal Creations I picked up cheap from eBay. The Panama is a 50s Wormser also an eBay find.

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Be gentle, an ex-military man asking me to be gentle? Seriously? How could I not? A fine specimen of an Aloha shirt if ever there was one, and a magnificent titfer to go with it, (cockney rhyming slang, titfer....tit for tat, hat.)

Bill Hughes said:

My first time. Please be gentle. It's a Royal Creations I picked up cheap from eBay. The Panama is a 50s Wormser also an eBay find.

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Wowza, Bill! Fantastic right out of the chute!!!

Bill Hughes said:

My first time. Please be gentle. It's a Royal Creations I picked up cheap from eBay. The Panama is a 50s Wormser also an eBay find.

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Great combo, Bill!

We are off to the Twinwood Festival tomorrow. Twinwood is named after the former RAF base that was there during WW2, and the RAF named their base after the farm that the base was housed on, Twinwood farm. What so special about Twinwood? It is the RAF airfield that a certain Glenn Miller took off from, never to be seen again. His service record still reports him as "missing."

It's a great event, and it looks like we are going to be blessed with good weather. You can see photos from previous years if you Google Twinwood. And for Twinwood I have a new shirt, woke up this morning to find that the shirt fairy had been overnight. Not a floral shirt but one in keeping with early aviators. It features biplanes. I took a couple of photos, then, kid that I am, tried it on, matched with the powder blue fedora that Esther made for me.

GHT said:

We are off to the Twinwood Festival tomorrow. Twinwood is named after the former RAF base that was there during WW2, and the RAF named their base after the farm that the base was housed on, Twinwood farm. What so special about Twinwood? It is the RAF airfield that a certain Glenn Miller took off from, never to be seen again. His service record still reports him as "missing."

It's a great event, and it looks like we are going to be blessed with good weather. You can see photos from previous years if you Google Twinwood. And for Twinwood I have a new shirt, woke up this morning to find that the shirt fairy had been overnight. Not a floral shirt but one in keeping with early aviators. It features biplanes. I took a couple of photos, then, kid that I am, tried it on, matched with the powder blue fedora that Esther made for me.

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Wow, what a shirt!

Tukwila said:

Wow, what a shirt!

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And what a great compliment, thank you. I will pass it on to the lady, she's busy packing at the moment.

Another great Twinwood, but the heat, the thermometer hit 93F degrees, I think that's about 33C, strange isn't it? Celsius should be so easy, zero is freezing and one hundred is boiling, but when I hear 33C it just doesn't compute, is that hot, or what? Sorry, I digress. Here's a few of the shirts and hats that I wore, taken outside the hotel that we stayed at. Camping? Us? As my missus jokingly says: "One has standards."
On the last photo she said: "Don't hide your belly with your hand, suck it in!" Cheek!

Bill Hughes said:

My first time. Please be gentle. It's a Royal Creations I picked up cheap from eBay. The Panama is a 50s Wormser also an eBay find.

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You nailed it bro!

GHT said:

Another great Twinwood, but the heat, the thermometer hit 93F degrees, I think that's about 33C, strange isn't it? Celsius should be so easy, zero is freezing and one hundred is boiling, but when I hear 33C it just doesn't compute, is that hot, or what? Sorry, I digress. Here's a few of the shirts and hats that I wore, taken outside the hotel that we stayed at. Camping? Us? As my missus jokingly says: "One has standards."
On the last photo she said: "Don't hide your belly with your hand, suck it in!" Cheek!
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Dang, matching shoes and pants, great looks GHT.

It's a weekend of activity where we are, talk about spoiled for choice. Some 15 or so miles away there's The Bournemouth Air Show, (https://bournemouthair.co.uk/) where we were asked to display our old MG, but the air show attracts upwards of a quarter of a million visitors, too crowded for me, and chances are the MG might come away with a little customise art work. I've seen kids running a key along the bodywork of cars previously.

There's a free big band concert at Highcliffe Castle, And they too have a classic car display, but we saw the band last night.


We have decided to go to Sugar Push, an afternoon gig with dancing and music from the era. In the evening we shall all descend on a favourite Italian restaurant, I'm looking forward to it. What to wear? The warm weather almost dictates an Aloha shirt, but I bought a pair of new Gibsons at Twinwood, anything new, I'm like a kid, I just have to wear it. These black & white Gibsons need something to compliment them and I have two shirts that can do just that. Both are Art Deco rather than traditional Hawaiian, but they still have a good wow factor:

The first one I think, with the scallop shells, teamed up with my Biltmore straw, I was going to wear a black felt fedora, but it creates too much black, so the straw it is. And to highlight the gibsons a pair of Rocket Originals diamond socks, and of course, the black baggy trousers that Tina made me.

This is a previous photo, but the only difference in the previous photo is that I'm wearing spectator shoes instead of my new Gibsons.

GHT said:

Another great Twinwood, but the heat, the thermometer hit 93F degrees, I think that's about 33C, strange isn't it? Celsius should be so easy, zero is freezing and one hundred is boiling, but when I hear 33C it just doesn't compute, is that hot, or what? Sorry, I digress. Here's a few of the shirts and hats that I wore, taken outside the hotel that we stayed at. Camping? Us? As my missus jokingly says: "One has standards."
On the last photo she said: "Don't hide your belly with your hand, suck it in!" Cheek!
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Just a class act!

scottyrocks said:

Just a class act!

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You are such a smoothie Scotty, you should work in sales. But thank you for the compliment, it always makes me smile.

We went to a milliner today, Tina is having a hat remodelled for a wedding that we are invited to, it's not until early next year, but as Tina is making the bride's dress, she wants her own wardrobe finished and out of the way. The milliner has reworked the hat and is now making a clever spray of feathers to adorn it. She also came up with a novel idea, she's going to make a small but matching feather spray to go in the hatband of my black fedora. When all is done I will share them with you.

Autumn is just around the corner but today the sun has definitely got his hat on, and so have I. The shirt might not be traditional Aloha, but it's still eye catching, nonetheless.

The colour is strong, a good choice for a sunny day, the finished shirt looks a little more faded but that's the limitation of a phone camera.

Some time ago Tina came across a pair of yellow trousers in a charity shop, they were unworn and still with the sales labels attached. Much too big for me in length and waist size. Not when my missus casts her seamstress eye over them. The actual colour is that at the waist, the strong sunshine makes the lower part of the legs look much lighter.

Tina set about unpicking the seat squab, that's a polite way of saying, the crotch area. Then she unpicked the waistband, she drew all the material inwards, cutting off the excess, reattached the waistband, sewed in a new zipper and readjusted the pockets. Then she unpicked the hems, measured the leg length up against me, cut off the excess, leaving enough to turn up a generous cuff. She then sewed a reinforcing liner to the inside to give the hem some weight and to protect it from fraying. A dry clean and a good press and they were ready to wear. See how she cleverly straightened up the previous tapered appearance, there's still a slight taper, but you could hardly see it.

All that remains is to add a tan pair of spectators, a fine MG straw hat:

And that's it, apart from the socks, take my word for it, they are a yellow Fair Isle pattern.

GHT said:

You are such a smoothie Scotty, you should work in sales.

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Actually, I couldn't. I don't freely throw compliments around.

scottyrocks said:

Actually, I couldn't. I don't freely throw compliments around.

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Actually, I had realised that, over time on an internet forum, names become people, and the character of those people start to surface. That is why your compliment felt like someone saying in it in life. Just as though we might meet for coffee at lunchtime and you said your kind words, I would have replied as I did here.

True sales people never flatter, they get to know and understand their customer/client, and use that knowledge to their advantage, but playing to the weakness of vanity would never be in a true sales professional's script.

GHT said:

Actually, I had realised that, over time on an internet forum, names become people, and the character of those people start to surface. That is why your compliment felt like someone saying in it in life. Just as though we might meet for coffee at lunchtime and you said your kind words, I would have replied as I did here.

True sales people never flatter, they get to know and understand their customer/client, and use that knowledge to their advantage, but playing to the weakness of vanity would never be in a true sales professional's script.

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That's a great point. I can now more clearly think of certain people I have dealt with who have made a purchasing experience positive and enjoyable instead of 'I can't wait to get out of here.' I guess that under the correct circumstances, I could do well in sales.

Back to the floral shirts, a seersucker pinstripe blazer and one of Esther's finest to top it all off: