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  1. Rathko

    Basic Wardrobe

    That's the one - thanks.
  2. Rathko

    Pencil Mustache

    YEPS - your black and white pic inspired me to finally grow a pencil moustache. Is it naturally dark or does is have (ahem) assistance?
  3. Rathko

    Basic Wardrobe

    I could have sworn there used to be a sticky from one of the FL regulars (Matt Deckard?) outlining the must-haves of a vintage wardrobe. However much I look and search, I can't find it. Are my delusions becoming more pronounced or was the post removed?
  4. Rathko

    Magnoli - How About Socks?

    Sorry to be resurrecting this thread after a year, but what happened? I spend most of my free hours trying to find socks with clocking and horizontal stripes but to no avail. I'd definitely be interested in a range from Magnoli, as would others it seems, but looking at the website - still no socks.
  5. Rathko

    Facial Hair

    Stalin, Soviet General Secretary Trotsky, Soviet politician Einstein, physicist Arthur Ransom, writer Neville Chamberlain, British politician
  7. Rathko

    Trouser/Pants Leg Length History Lesson

    I assume you're talking about dress trousers rather than jeans. I think most people with half a clue make sure their trousers are the right length - slight break when cuffless; no break when cuffed. The only people I see wearing them overly long are teenagers going to their part-time job...
  8. Rathko

    That Gatsby Look?? to wear with Plus Fours...

    Shirt? Most examples I've ever seen are a solid white or off-white. Tie? Regular, not bow. Striped, or figured. Socks? Sometimes plain, but very often featuring the craziest argyle-type pattern possible. As for color, something complementary to the plus-fours can't be wrong...
  9. Rathko

    Victorian/Edwardian

    Glad to hear it, Lokar. Sounds very Ibsen-esque (yes, I know he's Norwegian - sorry). Late Victorian/Edwardian stuff is absolutely wearable. It's only really the dramatically curved jacket fronts that might seem unusual.
  10. Rathko

    Halloween Costumes

    Zombie Cowboy. I find the zombie prefix works for men as the slutty prefix works for women - zombie cop, zombie doctor, zombie superhero instead of slutty cop, slutty doctor, slutty superhero. RATHKO
  11. Rathko

    Does vintage make you look.... *older*?

    I always wear at least a jacket and tie to work despite the prevailing trend for hipster-casual. One night I ran into a few of my colleagues during one of the rare periods in which I was wearing jeans and a T-shirt. The first comments from every one of them were that I looked ten years younger...
  13. Rathko

    Costume vs. natural

    Clothing you wear when you're playing yourself. Costume you wear when you're playing somebody else.
  14. Rathko

    Victorian/Edwardian

    I realize it isn’t technically FL’s era, but has anybody else looked into repro Victorian clothing? Personally, I love just about all clothing post-French Revolution and still grieve over the fact that I can’t wear a navy tail coat and buff breeches in public. I wondered just how early one could...
  15. Rathko

    Winter weight wool flannel pants - is that asking for too much?

    I thought it was just me they treated like a homeless guy off the street. Hell, I'm wearing vintage tweed with my favorite cashmere tie and some kid in a black suit that's two sizes too big, with the shoulder seam half way down his upper arm and a gape in his shirt collar large enough to smuggle...
  16. Rathko

    Winter weight wool flannel pants - is that asking for too much?

    Being from England, I'm just used to heavier weight wools. The lighter ones feel insubstantial to me, as though they're going to wear through too quickly. I also like the feeling of being constricted by my clothing - hence my love of the three-piece and tie - and thinner fabrics are just too...
  17. Rathko

    Pink Confessions - Poll

    Of course pink is vintage... In 'The Great Gatsby', the title character spends half the book running around in a pink suit - 'I must have felt pretty weird by that time because I could think of nothing except the luminosity of his pink suit under the moon' - and again - 'His gorgeous pink rag...
  19. Rathko

    how to spice up "Business Casual"

    I have a photograph of my grandfather, who was a Head Gardener at some country house in England standing in his work attire - three-piece suit and tie. One of the things I love about pre-war clothing is that everyone dressed well whatever the dangers of dirt and oil. I've always found quality...
  20. Rathko

    Calling Cards (name cards, not phone cards)

    Decobelle - are people able to understand the meaning of the exchange name? While researching the history of my house I've found it has had the same phone number for some fifty years or more. It's part of the history of the house and I'd love to have it, exchange name and all, printed on my...
  21. Rathko

    Sleeve Cap Puckering

    Then allow me to rephrase - a question for those far more knowledgeable than I about such things (which widens the field immensely, trust me): When is sleeve cap puckering a flaw, and when is it an intentional result of a tailor creating a soft shoulder? -JAMES
  22. Rathko

    Sleeve Cap Puckering

    A question for the tailors among us: Something I've always thought was the sign of a cheap and poorly made suit coat was puckering in the sleeve cap. I see it a lot on suits in my office building and it always looks ugly. And yet my father-in-law owns several Brioni suits and they all display...
  23. Rathko

    So which era of clothing do you like best?

    I like anything from about 1790 and the styles inspired by the English riding habit to the outbreak of WW2. I much prefer very structured and 'tailored' coats and lose interest when things get all loose and drapey. As for inspiration regarding everyday attire, I suppose I'm most influenced by...

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