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  1. fathergoose

    Golden Bear..pre1980?

    That IS nice!
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    Golden Bear..pre1980?

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    Golden Bear..pre1980?

    Don't it just figure that the one leather jacket I own that actually does fit like the proverbial glove, is one I found completely by accident two weeks ago in a used clothing store wedged into the corner of a ¥100 shop here in Matsuyama. Big rack of leathers going for a song because anyone in...
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    30s/40s industrial style on the cheap

    I live in Japan, and almost every year Uniqlo comes out with something vintage-flavored if not downright retro. *Their blue work shirts come in three shades: blue, darker blue and almost black. *Flapped pockets. The fit is closer to a 30's/40's fit. *A bit slim but not form fitting. *Dark...
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    How do folks react to your hat wearing?

    I live in Japan, and I see folks wearing hats on a daily basis, young and old, men and women, especially during this season: fedoras, pork pies, stingy brims, *flat caps, newsboys, watch caps, the occasional Elmer Fudd-styled hunting hat, even bowlers. *In fact, baseball caps are no more...
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    Show me your favorite jacket

    Who, me? *Why thank you! *I don't really know how to put vintage things together very well. *Then I discovered Disfarmer's 30's-40's photo portraits of real vintage folks, *and I realized they didn't know how to put them together either.
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    Show me your favorite jacket

    Indy Magnoli made this 30's-style utility jacket to order. It's a pip.
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    Vintage Suitings: Discussions of, and sourcing modern equivalents, etc.

    Okay, Flat Foot. I'll do that.
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    Vintage Suitings: Discussions of, and sourcing modern equivalents, etc.

    Some years ago, my brother-in-law bequeathed a closet full of 1980's Comme de Garçon suits to me. Single and double breasted, summer, fall and winter weights. The shoulders are wide, the fit is boxy but not baggy. I had a local Goth costumer nip and tuck them a bit. With a fedora, round eye...
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    Putting it all together

    Putting it all together. Very impressed by Top Gear's James May and his remarks on men's fashion: "I know this will come as something of a surprise to you, but I spend a great deal of money on clothes, and I just make them look really sh**." * Well, I have an entire Fibber McGee closet crammed...
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    WWII Films

    Has anyone mentioned "Empire of the Sun" (1987)," Shanghai" (2010) or "Black Rain/Kuroi Ame (1989)? All good to extraordinary films!
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    What do you do for Living?

    I train English speaking travel guides in The Empire of Japan.
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    To bi-swing back or not to bi-swing back?

    Same here. An A2 looks fantastic on a hanger or on the back of a Mustang pilot, but with mine, I wore it, slept in it, balled it up, used it as a pillow, never took it off, and after three years, it STILL feels strange. The Raiders, on the other hand, feels like I've worn it forever. As...
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    To bi-swing back or not to bi-swing back?

    Agreed. It's "that" look, I think. These days, I try to do nothing more strenuous than pick up a Boston terrier. But I have the Wested Raiders, and from the back at least, it always looks as though I'm about to cross a swinging liana bridge to explore an undiscovered jungle temple rather...
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    A-2 repro... You get one choice... Everyone encouraged to comment!

    I agree! Across the street from our building, I found an old Avirex, distressed but unworn, size 44. Cost whatever I had in my pockets at the time. I had to sleep in it a few nights to get to the point where I could actually lift my arms above my head, but it fits like a forties jacket. And...
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    What are you wearing today??

    ..and your pigs'll be fatter, happier and healthier with Purina Hog Chow. Now, here's Dinerman to pay that fast one, one..more..time. Mmmhmm. A one and a two...
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    What are you wearing today??

    No. You don't want trouble. We don't want trouble. But the gentleman I work for has asked that you either vacate these premises or you'll be cleaning up more than spaghetti sauce off these floors. If you catch my drift.
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    What are you wearing today??

    John Lennon has a decidedly 1930's look in Magical Mystery Tour, and, of course, a 1940's do and suit in How I Won the War. But Bonnie and Clyde and, a little later, The Sting really did have an impact on men's fashion, didn't they. How often does that kind of thing turn up on EBay, I wonder.
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    What are you wearing today??

    I have tried on every peacoat I've ever come across here in The Empire. Cheap ones, expensive ones, vintage, repros, tight, loose and big enough for two or more stevedores. But I looked, as my wife Haruka suggested, as if I'd stolen them off a clothesline on my way out of a prison camp. Some...
  23. fathergoose

    "It's Awful quiet out there...." "Yeah... TOO Quiet!"

    I ordered a jacket from Magnoli in late July. That should put delivery around about late October or so. Halfbelt with buttons. Lapels. Twenties-ish, but what do I know. Based on a jacket from a well known designer represented by three letters, beefcake models and somewhat discouraging price tags.

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