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    Mistakes You've Made with Vintage Clothes.

    One more thing, given a choice between buying a piece of real vintage, especially shoes, jeans, flight jackets, and workwear, and spending the same or a little bit more for a high quality reproduction (i.e. made in japan, shoes boots made in USA), I will choose the reproduction because I am much...
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    Mistakes You've Made with Vintage Clothes.

    Lessons learned and observations from two decades of thrift store shopping: 1. When buying an old suit at thrift or vintage store, spread the waist band of the pants and look for light filtering in from moth holes. Especially important in poorly lit thrift stores. Also check lining on...
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    Reproduction classic workwear

    E-workers is great, quality second to none. I am lucky to be short and sleight, so their clothing fits me well, but if you have long arms, you might run into trouble. Just send them an email.
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    Rakuten's cheap vintage sweatshirts ?

    I believe you are looking for these, from Hinoya: http://item.rakuten.co.jp/hinoya/h-001/
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    Finshed my first A1

    I am very impressed. Where did you get or how did you make the collar knits? I have been thinking about modifying a trashed old G1 with an A1 style collar. Would appreciate any help/info.
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    Vintage Workwear

    That shirt got linked to and hyped on a bunch of blogs and people went nuts bidding. When all is said and done, I bet that shirt sells for somewhere between $800 and $2000, which seems to be about the range for Stiefel and Wabash type items. For 15,000 a guy could buy a minty A-2 jacket...
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    Vintage Sunglasses

    I just think you are wrong. Ad from 1940 Mechanix Illustrated magazine, showing that they were already being marketed and worn on the fashion runway before world war 2: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/MechanixIllustrated/2-1940/new_glasses.jpg
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    Vintage Sunglasses

    That said, I own a pair of these with a sunglasses prescription: http://www.eyeglasses.com/anglo-american/aa180.html I haven't worn them for a while in favor of shurons and clubmasters, but really good frames.
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    Vintage Sunglasses

    I will try to live with it.
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    Vintage Sunglasses

    Mistergrey, you would learn more about vintage clothing and fashion by spending 10 hours looking at vintage photographs than you would in a million years spent on this forum. Why don't you take a little time off from hypothesizing and postulating and generalizing and just look at photos of what...
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    Vintage Sunglasses

    Life Magazine 1947: http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=aeff1510aa8848eb&q=girl%20sunglasses%20source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgirl%2Bsunglasses%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
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    Vintage Sunglasses

    BT is right. Solarex marketed women's sunglasses in the 1940s. And here is a pic from Valentino's funeral showing what are clearly women's sunglasses:
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    USN Pullover / Sweater Repros

    For 20 bucks plus 5 dollars in dye and 35 bucks to a seamstress you could have a decent facsimile of the Mr. Freedom at a sixth of the price.
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    USN Pullover / Sweater Repros

    The sweater you want is normally called the "five button sweater" or "5 button sweater." They can be had in surplus stores and on ebay for about 20 bucks as they were still made until pretty recently. Be careful to get one that is wool and not acrylic. You might also look out for the USN...
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    HAPPINESS

    Great movie. I remember seeing it in a crowded theater that was oozing with discomfort.
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    Classic Style #5

    I am very excited to read the article exposing Hollywood's bias against marriage!
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    Hot Weather Footwear

    Why not wear shoes?
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    McGregor Drizzler & Woolrich Safari Jackets

    A general rule of thumb is that "Made in the USA" does not appear on garment labels until 1970 or so (the year 1972 sticks out in my mind). The circle R trademark symbol also doesn't appear much earlier than the mid-sixties. Out of curiosity because I love Drizzlers, what kind of zipper does...
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    visual reference for depression era work wear

    Check out the disfarmer site for great portraits. Also, and I think these have been posted elsewhere, but ton of great photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157603671370361/ example:
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    Gun Boats - like them or dislike them?

    Those are incredible. Were those custom made for you?

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