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  1. Oscar Tong

    To pinch or not to pinch?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùthat is the question.

    Thanks, everybody, for your input. This is really good information. Fish, I'll take a cue from you and henceforth be more wary of coat-check men. It never would have occurred to me that there could be sloppy coat-check men out there. I guess I give people more credit than I mean to sometimes.
  2. Oscar Tong

    Remembering "Dad"

    Wow. I feel really bad for you, Brian. I am sorry about what happened. I don't know what else to say.
  3. Oscar Tong

    Collar Bars

    I don't know about the bar itself, but this collar type is known as a pin collar. According to Clothes and the Man by Alan Flusser, the pin collar was popular during the late 1920s. You can read more about collar types here.
  4. Oscar Tong

    Profiles

    RE: Profile I just filled out my profile, too! I only wish that the fields accepted more characters, though. There is so much information I want to enter.
  5. Oscar Tong

    My experience with vintage.

    RE: Dropped belt loops Dropped belt loops? Do you mean that they are sewn lower than usual or that they are absent?
  7. Oscar Tong

    Photo of the day.

    That picture looks so...so...well, real. I should have known that color photography existed in the 1940s. Well, you learn something new every day. :)
  8. Oscar Tong

    Remembering "Dad"

    Another Vancouverite?! Wow, another Vancouverite! Perhaps there is hope for this city, after all! Welcome, Brian. For off-the-shelf suits and sport jackets, my sizes are 42R for the jacket, 36 for the waist of the trousers, and about 34, I think, for the length of the legs of the trousers...
  9. Oscar Tong

    My experience with vintage.

    Thanks for all the great advice, Root! Now, would you mind elaborating on what you look for in the small details, such as suspender-button placement, the coat lining, pocket placement, pleat style, and so on? Thanks!
  10. Oscar Tong

    An introduction.

    WHOA!!!! I never in my wildest dreams would have thought that there could be in these times somebody as young as you who would feel the way I did about the state of dress, grooming, and style today! Maybe there is a faint glimmer of hope for this world. The way I once put it to somebody was that...
  11. Oscar Tong

    To pinch or not to pinch?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùthat is the question.

    To pinch or not to pinch—that is the question. The owner of my favorite local hat shop believes that hat wearers should not pick up or otherwise lift their hats by pinching the crown, the reason being that repeated pinching will eventually break the hat. I don't know whether pinching the...
  13. Oscar Tong

    New Coat to go with my New Hat!

    Phew! Wow! You look like you mean business, Chad! Your five o'clock shadow lends itself well to the pictures. The second picture is my favorite. Now, all you need is a source of wind, either a dark night with aging, failing street lamps or a moonlit night, and perhaps some fog, if you know what...
  14. Oscar Tong

    Working Men's Hats

    Thanks for sharing your photographs, Big Man. :) I've been wondering for awhile now what kinds of hats a working man wore in the past. I didn't think a working man would wear a fedora while doing hard work, though. Well, you learn something new every day, right? Was anybody here once a...
  15. Oscar Tong

    My ugly mug

    In Gastown in December 2004 Hey, folks! Here's a picture I just remembered I had. Here I am with a friend from Japan in Gastown, a subsection of Downtown Vancouver, in December 2004. (For more information about Gastown, please follow the link in the previous sentence.) I strongly...
  16. Oscar Tong

    My new hats!

    Those are nice hats, Alan. The homburg suits you particularly. :) Wear it with pride! (By the way, if you ask me, buying vintage clothing is indeed a dangerously addicting habit! :p) I wonder whether a camera like yours will ever show up at one of the local used-camera dealers in Vancouver...
  17. Oscar Tong

    What do you do for Living?

    My jobs I refill ink-jet printer cartridges at Island Ink-Jet and moonlight as a volunteer apprentice IT consultant. Since my primary job pays little and gives me few working hours, I am currently seeking a second job. I hope to get a government job, work as a computer service technician, or...
  19. Oscar Tong

    High Style.

    RE: Suspender buttons Perhaps this paragraph from Clothes and the Man by Alan Flusser will help, Bob.
  20. Oscar Tong

    Getting a suit tailor-made

    RE: Hong Kong tailors I've heard of a place called Sam's Tailor (which is run by a man who is not named Sam :p). CNN ran a story about this place back in 1997. It's an old article, but it's all I have at this time. I hope this is of some help.
  21. Oscar Tong

    My ugly mug

    For anybody wishing to go blind, here are the first of an ongoing series of pictures I like to call "The Misadventures of a Poor Vintage Lover in Slobland" (working title), the continuous attempts of a young fellow who loves early mid-twentieth century fashions to build a wardrobe on a tight...
  22. Oscar Tong

    High Style.

    Hey, Root, I love the picture of yourself that you had just posted! The car behind you only enhances the overall feel. Funnily enough, you look like a nicer version of Thomas F. Wilson as Biff Tannen in Back to the Future in that picture! How long has it taken you to collect all the stuff I've...
  23. Oscar Tong

    Getting a suit tailor-made

    Oh, dear... I'm sorry to disappoint you all, but my plans have hit a snag. It turned out that my father, the one who had offered to buy me a bespoke suit, despite having lived in Vancouver for many years, had no idea that tailors charged as much as they did on this side of the Pacific...

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