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The BORSALINO BROTHERHOOD
I posted this one in the new hats thread, but I suppose it belongs here as well. Anyone happen to have any ideas as to when it might have been made? -
Post New Hats Here!
I just got this beautiful Borsalino in the mail today. I know next to nothing about dating Borsalinos, so I'm interested to know when you folks think it was made. Crown is around 6 1/2 inches open, brim is 2 1/4 inches. Also, I can't figure out this wind trolley, does anyone around here... -
Manners & Etiquette
This may not be entirely relevant to this discussion, but it's just such a funny song I couldn't resist posting it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBj40wqn8tQ- CONELRAD
- Post #59
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What are you wearing today??
Those pants, yowzah!- CONELRAD
- Post #23,174
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Gohn Brothers
Actually, I'm thinking one of their "Ropp" shirts with the short sleeve option might pretty closely resemble a 1930s button and loop closure style polo shirt.- CONELRAD
- Post #3
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Why the 1920s-1940s?
On Dorothy Dix's Letter Box in the newspaper I was reading, the May 23, 1925 Houston Post-Dispatch, Ralph is having trouble "making a hit with the weaker sex", even though he can "talk fluently and owns a car." Dorothy Dix tells him, "You speak of girls as belonging to the weaker sex. Perhaps...- CONELRAD
- Post #64
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Why the 1920s-1940s?
I agree with this, and I also wholeheartedly agree with what Edward posted over in the "Era Immersion Living" thread about "modernity in moderation", and "keeping what was good about the past, without the blood-sports and the bigotry." My view is that the world wasn't overall a better place...- CONELRAD
- Post #47
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Why the 1920s-1940s?
The period I'm most fixated on lies around 1920 to 1950, and I admire different aspects of each period. Among other things, I admire the prosperity and good times of the 1920s, the spirit and perseverance through hard times in the 1930s, the return of prosperity in the postwar era, and many...- CONELRAD
- Post #32
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
On the topic of "tight"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqZRl0GY04o- CONELRAD
- Post #2,115
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Era Immersion Living
I think the majority of people in the vintage "scene" are just ordinary people who like old stuff and are into it for their own enjoyment, much like the couple in the article (albeit typically to a lesser extent). No doubt there are some with a superiority complex like you note, but from my...- CONELRAD
- Post #36
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Era Immersion Living
I posted an abridged version of this in response to the same topic over on the Facebook group for the Fedora Lounge, and I believe it's appropriate here as well. Nowadays, people think we're living in the most tolerant, most morally advanced time in history, and any given point more than...- CONELRAD
- Post #35
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Your Strangest "Golden Era" Dream
I once dreamed that the ghost of Al Jolson visited me in my sleep and transported me back in time to 1920s Hollywood, where we proceeded to frolic across the rooftops of stucco covered movie studios and Art Deco styled skyscrapers in our effort to soak up the local color. I'd watch that.- CONELRAD
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Post New Hats Here!
Thanks all for your kind remarks. If only for the brim, I'd agree with you, and it does have a number of features that strike me as later, but I'd think the straight-sided high crown and frayed bow would have been quite unfashionable in the 1960s. -
Post New Hats Here!
Just got this in the mail today, made by Westminster "Hats of Quality", a brand I'd never heard of. It has the older style of frayed-at-the-back bow, and also has the unusual feature of a thicker "ridge" on either side of the crown (as you can see in the picture). The crown's about six inches... -
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Show us their suits
Boogie woogie piano man Roosevelt Sykes, circa 1930. -
What are you listening to?
Auburn Ave. Stomp by J. Neal Montgomery's Atlanta territory band... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d4ChjMAhq0 -
Post New Hats Here!
I stopped by the HatCo Outlet in Garland yesterday and picked up these two... This beautiful silverbelly "Special Edition"... and this fuzzy Royal De Luxe. -
Golden era food.
Good Things to Eat From Out of the Air "136 tested radio recipes" Written by Winifred S. Carter and published by the Procter & Gamble Co. in 1932. Includes an introduction telling us all about Crisco and how "Crisco fried foods are digestible", and just about every recipe contains it. The...- CONELRAD
- Post #95
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What are you listening to?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKNSWDaIfVQ
