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  1. Dirk Wainscotting

    Show off the sports coats.

    Three superb jackets from Blighty. Love the lapels on the brown. The green is crazy (but I'd still wear it). You have an excellent collection of coats.
  2. Dirk Wainscotting

    Vintage trains

    My dad just bought a Flying Scotsman engine for his (rather extensive) spare room model railway line. I haven't seen it yet. The entire line is constructed as he remembers trains from the mid 1950s. Basically he's spending my inheritance on all this.
  3. Dirk Wainscotting

    What do you use to shave?

    That blade had been sitting in a razor in he bathroom (not good), but when it was unwrapped it was clean as a whistle. However, you are indeed right about the oxidisation of even wrapped blades; I've found spots even on more recent blades that have been badly stored.
  4. Dirk Wainscotting

    Show off the sports coats.

    Excellent ensemble (great poker face too). It has the authentic look too; a quick run through the GIMP and you get this...could just as well be 1946:
  5. Dirk Wainscotting

    Gillette Super Speed DE Razors

    I have two adjustables: a 1961 Aristocrat and a 1960 'Fatboy', both sold in Britain, but the Aristocrat was made in USA). They're okay, but I much prefer my 1955 Rocket gold (though it's more silver than gold now). It feels more solid. Like Esteban I've moved towards three-piece razors...
  7. Dirk Wainscotting

    Who still wears suits these days?

    Gentlemen don't forget your foot-shoes. Best to call them this in case anyone confuses them with brake shoes or horses shoes.
  8. Dirk Wainscotting

    Show us your British suits

    The suit is 1950s, or at least employs a cut and shaping of the fore-parts that reflects the 40s/1950s which a tailor of that period would obviously still use into the sixties (many tailors hate the changes of fashion). The narrowing of lapels would have been a customer concession if it was made...
  9. Dirk Wainscotting

    Show us your British suits

    The 'collarless' Beatles suits were by Pierre Cardin (before he became a mere name on a Walmart Pen and every pair of cheap socks). It was copied rather widely throughout the sixties.
  10. Dirk Wainscotting

    What do you use to shave?

    I have 8 packets of these vintage Gillette Blue blades which I found in a bric-a-brac shop. The one out of its packaging in the photo is the only one I've used as yet (I don't want to use them up because I have no more after these).
  11. Dirk Wainscotting

    Who still wears suits these days?

    Great, that demonstrates practically zero. If you go into a menswear shop and ask for a tie, I'm confident that the assistant is never going to come back carrying a 'hairtie' (of which I've never heard and which isn't in the dictionary. Hair-clip, hair-slide, yes, but no 'hairtie'), or a plastic...
  13. Dirk Wainscotting

    Who still wears suits these days?

    Referring to it as a bow tie surely already differentiates it from 'tie'. Plus a bow tie also goes round the neck! I don't want to flog this to death, just mentioned it because it has bothered me for so long. :)
  14. Dirk Wainscotting

    Who still wears suits these days?

    What is this business of "necktie"? Is there another place on the body this garment could be being worn if the 'neck' isn't specified? It's surely just a 'tie'. I don't remember ever being at school and being asked to straighten my necktie (as opposed to, say, my kneetie, in case I wasn't...
  15. Dirk Wainscotting

    Who still wears suits these days?

    Not sure about the variations in the U.S. but here in Europe most professional types wear a suit: solicitors, barristers (even a special suit for court appearances); accountants; doctors (not the scruffy young ones); civil servants; politicians of course... Lots of sales-people. Also people who...
  16. Dirk Wainscotting

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    The fifties - like most decades in the 20th century really - has two or more versions. People can look back at the rosy stereotype because there really was some of that, but there's also the seedy, downtrodden world of many an inner city like in Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn, or perhaps the...
  17. Dirk Wainscotting

    Show Us Vintage GERMAN Suits

    The boy in the second photo (grandfather?) is adopting a rather camp pose. No offence meant of course!
  19. Dirk Wainscotting

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    This thread mainly concerns 'the fifties' as an American phenomenon, but I'd like to chip in about the fifties as reality and how it always was seen in the UK and what 'the fifties' has strangely become in the UK now. Since post-war England took a long time to recover the fifties in England was...
  20. Dirk Wainscotting

    1920s suits

    The clothes in the second photo look extraordinarily contemporary. edit: snap! Simultaneous post.
  21. Dirk Wainscotting

    Show us your TIES

    I bought a box of ties for €2 and fished out a few good things. These two soft, wool ties with fringe ends: There are few more bits, 40s/50s ties and good quality new ties as well. Bargain at €2.
  22. Dirk Wainscotting

    What do you use to shave?

    Nice, chunky razor.
  23. Dirk Wainscotting

    Show us your vintage French tailored garments.

    Trousers with a full front-fall! Very early 19th century... on a dinner suit? Very unusual choice. What an amazing find.

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