Mojave Jack
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Baggers said:Speaking of Alan Quartermaine, I'd really like a good copy of the leather vest that Sean Connery wore in "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." Very snazzy, and period looking as well.
I'd like a copy of that vest, as well. I've been keeping my eye out for an inexpensive safari style jacket that I could cut down to a vest, too. That would actually work pretty well out here under a number of conditions.
Baggers said:Mojave, a good alternative to those trousers that might have a more period look would be a pair from a company that makes clothing for the Single Action Shooting crowd. Perhaps something that has a high waist with a split V waistband along with a size adjusting tab and buckle in the back. Suspender buttons as well. About three weeks back, we had the pleasure of being on a twilight tour of Cliff House at Mesa Verde NP for the centennial celebration which was led by a professor from the University of New Mexico, and he was wearing a pair. He was doing living history as Richard Wetherill, the first white man to see the ruins, and it was very effective -- as long as I didn't look at the modern brown leather hikers he was wearing.
Cheers!
I love those living history type presentations! I have a group of friends out here that do shows up at Pioneertown (the one that nearly burned last week in the Sawtooth Fire). I actually joined, but was so busy with my coursework that I begged off until next year when I have more time. I want to do an archaeologist impression, which was encouraged because everyone else wants to be cowboys! I'd also like to do a calvary impression from about 1885, when they were transitioning to the cotton duck uniforms. That was just after the Southern Pacific Railroad came through this area and the mining boom began.