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    Demise of Cutter & Tailor forum and the new forum link

    I believe the cutter and tailor forum is back up.
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    Ask a question, get an answer

    Cheers for that. I've tried the various Irish makers before but they only seem to do large quantities, also they don't seem to do fuller shapes much or use nicer trimmings like leather sweatbands. Any in the UK you know of at all?
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    Ask a question, get an answer

    Alas further away than makers on the West Coast of the US. The same issues would apply with postage and currencies. There have to makers in the UK and EU surely?
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    Ask a question, get an answer

    As I'm not based in the US I'd like to find options closer to me in Europe. Especially as the Euro has taken a dive against the US dollar, and I'd also be posting my own cloth to a maker to have the cap made up.
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    Ask a question, get an answer

    Are there fuller flat caps (i.e. not slim driver/cycling caps) being made in Europe or the U.K. at all? Or are there custom makers in Europe on a par with such as the lounge members in the U.S.?
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    Embroidery? Screen printing? Or ...

    As GHT says above woven labels may be an option, and as well as Cash's there's the Franklin Group in Northern Ireland: http://www.franklins.co.uk/ Damask: http://s299.photobucket.com/user/wcreevy/media/damasklabel1.jpg.html Satin: http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm297/wcreevy/SatinLabel1.jpg...
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    Gone forever?

    Best member to ask would be Topper who's commented on the Top Hat thread here about it: http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?36577-Toppers-Unite/page66
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    Vintage Suitings: Discussions of, and sourcing modern equivalents, etc.

    I'm afraid I don't know how heavy the Harrisons are but I expect similar to other makers. Having something woven for you is dearer than buying cut lengths but can be reasonable if you get a few people to chip in. I know of mills where you can get from 8 or 10 metres woven for instance, at...
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    Vintage Suitings: Discussions of, and sourcing modern equivalents, etc.

    HE Box only have those weight of overcoatings in navy, black, red and bottle green as well as two covert or whipcord type cloths and a shade known as British Warm which is a drab or khaki shade. Dugdale have this in a 25oz http://www.dugdalebros.com/cloth-ranges/coatings-bunch-138/6304/...
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    Quality shoes for women

    That's quite alright duckie, you can get me back with an intro to a few dolls looking for a tweed geezer ;-) Whats more important is that if you do the tour of the factory shops in Northampton you can buy seconds/imperfects for about £99 as well as samples etc. The seconds in my view are...
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    Vintage neon signs

    A listed monument in Dublin
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    Quality shoes for women

    You're in the right spot as being in the UK you can get to Northampton which is the centre of welted shoe production and many of the ?British shoemakers have ladies collections: Grenson http://www.grenson.co.uk/en_gb/shop?cat=15&limit=all Crockett & Jones...
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    Dating rings/jewelry

    800 was more the more common standard as I understood it, so asking a goldsmith near you in Germany might help you with dating it or getting an idea of its origin. Based on the recessed settings and stone shapes i.e. baguette/lozenge I would also say 1920s/1930s but nothing more precise than...
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    Dating rings/jewelry

    Are you quite sure it says 825? Sterling silver is 925 and Continental European silver manufacture tended to be 800, is there any other stamp or mark on the inside band?
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    It's still around, here used in a rather disparaging tone by an Irish media figure in 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvnWLylpLBQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=295, I won't bore you with the details overmuch but he's decrying a bit of a furore with younger journos not believing a prime...
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    How would you earn a living?

    Hard to tell, as an Irishman in the 1930s/1940s I would've been able to get a greencard and been able to join relatives in the US, but given my eyesight I wouldn't have been fit for the police in Boston where I could've gone. Night telephonist or bus conductor perhaps.
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    Shirt collar oddities - Boardwalk Empire Shirt Collars

    We haven't the cultural memory of how expensive manufactured goods were compared to wages, and this included wovens. Even these days a colour woven cloth will be dearer from a mill than a plain or piece-dyed cloth. There were lots of tricks around this, denim for instance where the weave...
  21. M

    Show us your TIES

    Aristotle Onassis used to wear a black tie every day, supposedly so his business rivals could not detect his moods.
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    MEN'S PAJAMAS and DRESSING GOWNS

    For those interested http://www.pigiamiditalia.it/en/ aka Villa Delmitia seems to be the real deal for old style pyjamas and dressing-gowns. I'm going to send off some cloth to them and let ye know how I get on.
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    NEWS BOY CAPS

    A waxed cotton will not breathe at all. Wool will breathe and gradually get soaked in heavy rain, wool will however keep you warm when wet one of the few materials to do so. There were hare and beaver felt caps in the past, I wonder if they would be worth trying resurrecting?

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