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    Action back

    I just got my first belt back yesterday. It's a Palm beach brand half belt, pleated, yoked, inverted pleat and vented, and that thing has the highest cut arm holes of all my suits. It grips me everywhere! That is an incredible tailoring. I don't see how modern tailors could recognize anything...
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    The Works: Shave, haircut and shine

    I too was tired of the supercuts: lost in translation so I spent a good deal of time trying to find a barber of a more traditional influence, a place where I wouldn't be forced to listen to pop music for thirty minutes and study the outdated, by ten years, photos of the "latest cuts." I was more...
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    Out-of-control suit auction just ended

    I have a dated 1939 double breasted dark green pinstripe suit that I found in Pasadena six months ago. It's about a size 42, and the trousers have the longest inseam I have ever seen (with button fly) I've been tempted to sell it but I really want to see if I can get it tailored to fit me. I...
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    Vintage suit patterns

    The only thing you can do is find a vintage suit that's maybe one size to small, and... possibly could be ripped to shreds, and take it to a tailor and have him draft patterns from it. except to pay about $1,000 + not including the material you have to find.
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    New Suits?

    My recommendation would be to find twenty year old Pierre Cardin. I have seen a few suits that are cut EXACTLY like thirties suit, three pieces, double breasteds... they're out there.
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    Show us your TIES

    I love your fifties ties Shamus. I have a whole box of them. I'm saving a few for when my rat rod is done. Marc, Lauren and I will get the camera going at her studio and take some pics of my collection. I've got some weird ones, especially my ultra 1970'sesque late 30's tie. That thing is...
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    My latest Vintage Leather-

    I am kicking myself for not having my buddy pick up something like that for me when he lived in Germany for school... I recently retired my only vintage leather, and it's killing me because now... even my FS Indy jacket is too baggy for my taste. I like the thirties cut. I'm spoiled :cry:
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    Panama Style..?

    It was very popular in the late twenties and early thirties to have bashed hats without any pinch at all. My guess is this is simply a teardrop with the "fedora" brim requested to be turned down with no pinch.
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    Wearing a vintage tie

    Also... It was quite common in the early thirties in the movies and in real life, to tie it so the back was slightly longer than the front, why I don't know. Personally I am not a fan of it. Also Fred Astaire quite often tied his tie long enough that he would tuck the tapered end into his...
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    Wearing a vintage tie

    It was very common in the thirties to sans the lining because manufacturers were trying to save money during the depression. If you want a thirties tie just PM me. I have a few I was going to sell at the QM. Look forward to seeing you there. Watch in the events section as there will be a...
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    Modern Shirt collars...

    About six hundred shirts tonight are going to meet an unknown fate. If I am successful I shall return
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    Vintage Sunglasses

    Lauren and I bought a bunch of deadstock early 30's sunglasses that look more like the kind Bridges' wife wears, but they are unisex. I wear them. I'll post a link, from the suit section, where I am wearing them. We may still have a pair left to sell. They are original deadstock. Of course you...
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    Action back

    Yeah Matt, We both lost that brown window pane belt back on ebay. I have worn an action back suit before. It reminds me if my Indiana Jones jacket.
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    It IS All About Arm Holes

    Something tells me that there was a very dark chapter in Marc's history where he had to "intimately" inspect the condition of one of his suits and to his shock and horror discovered the... ahem... funk. I found a great window pane double breasted suit for $20 at a swap meet, then I found out...
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    Show us your TIES

    Art Fawcett and I had a conversation about black ties from the thirties, and one of the theories we share is that black ties, like light colored ties, are difficult to come across because it was very difficult to conceal a stained black tie, so they would be thrown out. Those are beautiful...
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    Show us your TIES

    It is of average width, the difference is in the length, the fifties ties started to get longer, the fathers of the modern tie unfortunately. Tell you what, if I go and it isn't a silk knit, I'll discard it, but if it is, I'll pick it up, run to the post office then PM you for what the...
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    Show us your TIES

    There is a cream knit tie about a block down from my house at a thrift shoft. It's squared 1950's cream colored. I think it's $1.50. And shipping, depending on where you are is probably $5 for priority mail, I'd be happy to pick it up for you today and ship it to you. Believe me I know what it's...
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    Show us your TIES

    I have been looking everywhere for square edged ties. I have a 1944 Montgomery Ward catalogue that has a tie almost identical to this one. I only find 1950's square edged ties. I need to go hunting with you guys.
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    High Style.

    It was very popular in the thirties for Hollywoodian men, i.e. Fred Astaire and Carey Grant, to tuck their tie in their trousers, but they had a level of class that went beyond the surface of their appearance, that is why fashion can try to mimick that today and something, deep inside, is...
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    Show us your TIES

    Can I see a pic of the wool knit tie you guys had displayed with the cricket suit. I have some frayed edge thirties ties, those are my favorite. I'll post pics soon.

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