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Tailors in Tulsa, OK area
Hi, all: I have searched TFL for Tailors in Tusla, but there does not seem to be anyinfo in existing threads. So, I am asking if anyone has any recommendations. I have some worsted wool cloth (years old) that I would like made into a suit. The tailors in Tulsa area that I have found via... -
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The Brothers Hat Shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Based on this old, old thread I went to seek out this shop. I am new to the Tulsa area and hoped it was still in business. It appears to be a dance studio now. Perhaps they teach the Mexican Hat Dance, but they don’t sell hats there anymore. -
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Hat Cleaning Repair & Restoration: Where?
Hey, thanks. I’ll take you up on that. I actually tried to sew my own sweatband together, but I don’t have a sewing machine or much skill with a needle so the zig-zag stitching at the sweatband seam that I attempted by hand looks awful. My head measures 57.3 cm, call it 57.5, i.e. annoyingly... -
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Hat Cleaning Repair & Restoration: Where?
Oh, I am not holding anything against Optimo. In my recent quest I have not found anyone who can replace the original Borsalino band with a replica. My estimation is that Optimo does good work. Not a bargain basement shop by any means, though. As for my old, unreeded Borsalino, I am pretty... -
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Hat Cleaning Repair & Restoration: Where?
They recently quoted me $81.66 after tax. Add shipping and it’s a hundred bucks or more. Ouch! -
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Hat Cleaning Repair & Restoration: Where?
A few years ago, before they achieved the renown that they currently enjoy, Optimo did repairs and restorations. I sent them an old Stratoliner. The work they did was fine, but they replaced the sweatband with a generic black one. Not even the same color as the tan original. The Royal... -
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Hat Cleaning Repair & Restoration: Where?
You’re right, of course. Seems an odd approach to me, though. I have trod this earth for many decades now. I have endured umpteen hours of business training throughout my working life. Never was I instructed that telling potential customers to ‘take a hike’ was a key to building a... -
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Hat Cleaning Repair & Restoration: Where?
I just had an exchange with this guy through Etsy. His parting comment after half a dozen messages was as follows: “You can believe what you want but I’ve been restoring Borsalino hats as well as many other pre 70s hats for over a decade. Take a hike” Followed by ”You come to me asking qs... -
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STEP BY STEP NAPTHA BATH
This thread is a bit old now, but here’s my recent experience. I’ve read about cleaning hats using naptha, and I have also read that Coleman’s camp fuel is just naptha and is an acceptable substitute. Well, I just tried some on an old hat (because I had a gallon of Coleman’s fuel). It cleaned... -
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Ask a question, get an answer
No, I have not called them yet. I am still hoping to find someone closer. San Diego is about 1 to 1-1/2 hr drive for me. The prices on their website seem to be about half of those of others. But, based on "you get what you pay for", I am a bit wary. But, if I can't find anybody else by next... -
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Ask a question, get an answer
This is an old post I found via search, but no one answered. So, has anyone used AB Hatters? Can anyone refer me to a hat repair facility in So. Cal ( Riverside) area? I need a sweatband replaced in a cowboy hat and do not want to spend as much in shipping as a replacement hat would cost. It's... -
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Leather motorcyle jacket
Don't know what kind of bike you're riding, but for classic, cafe racer style Lewis Leathers is arguably the "original" rocker jacket. The last one I had saved my hide on several occasions.- Peter_E
- Post #34
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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WW II Pilots wearing ties?
Well, of course pajamas were banned. Have you ever tried to wear a tie with the soft collar on a pajama jacket? It looks ridiculous! That's "tongue-in-cheek", by the way, for the humor-challenged, literal folks among us. -
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West Riding - Life of a Yorkshire Family - 1940's
I love Yorkshire, too, although at the moment I live far away. I was just going through my late father's stuff. He started some ancestry research. Among the things there is a brief history of the Cawood name: My grandmother (dad's mum) was nee Cawood. The first record of the Cawood family...- Peter_E
- Post #10
- Forum: The Golden Era
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WW II Pilots wearing ties?
Not to totally beat the topic to death, here is another period photo (that I personally doubt was staged) and the pilots are wearing ties when resting between sorties. Surely they didn't take them off to fly when they had to run for their planes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/topics/the_few... -
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WW II Pilots wearing ties?
They had to wear their uniform. The uniform included a tie, ergo ... a tie shall be worn! I googled Battle of Britian pilots in google images, and many (most?) are shown wearing ties. The photos of Douglas Bader, Guy Gibson, and Richard Hillary also show ties in the ones where they are not... -
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West Riding - Life of a Yorkshire Family - 1940's
I don't know. I don't think I have ever seen the movie. But, this (from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071118/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv) makes me think it probably wasn't very accurate: "Although born in Sunderland, Herriot spent the first twenty-three years of his life in Glasgow, and never lost the...- Peter_E
- Post #8
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Driving golden era cars in the modern era
Does your dog have a driver's license, then? He did a pretty good job reversing, looking in the side mirror like that.:eusa_clap- Peter_E
- Post #935
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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WW II Pilots wearing ties?
This photo is taken from "ABC of the RAF" by John Hammerton, 1942 edition. These pilots (AAF, not RAF, but to all intents the same thing) are wearing ties in their flying gear. And, in this photo of an air-gunner it looks like he might be wearing his tie, but I'm not absolutely sure. -
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Harking for a simpler time.....
72? Really? Oh, sh## !!! I'd better get a move on - not as long left as I thought! I like a lot of stuff from back in the time gone by: old phones; old cars; leather shoes with laces; fedoras; trenchcoats; swing music; proper beer; and so on, But .... My Grandmother (in Europe) had 10...- Peter_E
- Post #155
- Forum: The Golden Era
