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  1. shindeco

    Collar Bars

    The "eyelet" is just a round buttonhole so if you want to convert a shirt you just need a sewing machine with a button holer. (And possibly someone to work it, if you don't know how). I believe that often the safety pin type was just stuck through a regular collar. If the pin is sharp enough it...
  2. shindeco

    When you're not dressed vintage...

    Workaday clothes are dress pants (with braces), shirt (French cuff and cuff links), vintage tie and sweater (in the winter). I decided about 15 years ago that all my ties from that point on had to be older than me. I had quite a few as it was and could not justify spending $60 plus for a boring...
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    Vintage Phones

    I've had this one for a while. The ringer doesn't work (the repairman was great; he searched for 5 months for the replacement part -- a transistor, I think --but couldn't find one) but the rest of it works just fine. It's not the main phone; more of an accent piece.
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    Ascots

    Marty I found the picture of me wearing an ascot. (On an Alaskan cruise). I'm on the right. Sorry for the size, can't figure out how to shrink it!!
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    Cooking in the Golden Era

    Just Remembered Gourmet Magazine September, 2001 is their 60th anniversary issue. They actually dug out recipes from all the decades (40s through 90s) and re-ran articles, too. It's a great time capsule of cooking over the last 60 years. The 40s recipes include Lobster Thermidor and Creamed...
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    Snap Cufflinks

    I have a few pairs of these, too. You can often find them for quite reasonable prices in junk or thrift shops. I have a couple pairs with great art deco enamel work. You have to check carfully, though because the snap mechanism can lose its tightness with time. Sometimes the little wires have...
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    Cooking in the Golden Era

    I went digging through my cookbooks and dug out a few that I hadn't looked at in a while. I have a 1949 "Esquire's Handbook for Hosts" that has recipes (food and drinks); party games, tips on what to wear -- it's great. I also have "Burke's Complete Cocktail and Tastybite Recipes" from 1936...
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    Ascots

    I think I have one of my partner and I on our honeymoon and we're both wearing ascots. I'll try and dig it out.
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    What's on your bookshelf?

    I have a weakness for Dell mapbacks and other paperbacks from the 40s; usually mysteries. It's some of the best escapist fiction around.
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    Ascots

    Wild Root: Sharp, sharp, sharp! that is, inded, the way an ascot should be worn. I have a couple that I wear occasionally. They're very comfortable, especially in hot weather. I wore one constantly at the Burning Man festival when we went a couple of years ago (a huge, artsy week-long...
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    Cooking in the Golden Era

    I love vintage cookbooks! A couple of years ago I started getting really interested in teh ration recipes from WWII. There are some really good recipes (and some real dogs...) What I had never considered was that a lot of the stuff people were eating back then was vegan! (No eggs, no butter, no...
  14. shindeco

    Who Are Your Style Icons?

    Fred Astaire and the Nicholas Brothers (Harold and Fayard) All three proved that clothes are meant for moving bodies; not static models. And my dad; he's 82 and has never thrown a tie out in his life. My collection pales in comparison with his; especially as his were all bought when they...
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    How did you find the lounge?

    Searching for patterns for a smoking jacket
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    Show us your TIES

    I would actually date the narrow one as mid-50s. The colours are more in the 50s range and it seems a bit too long; 30s ties are usually two piece ties that are quite a bit shorter than modern ties (designed to be worn under a vest, so no need for length) They're not usually as thin as that...
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    Show us your TIES

    Nice! I'm always a fan of geometrics so I'd have to say the second from the left is my favourite but I'd wear all of them!
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    What makes a Lady?

    The first thing that came to mind when I read the title of this thread was the line in the "Strip Polka" where they say of Queenie (Queen of them all) "She's always a lady, even in pantomime; so she stops, but always just in time!" It may have been intended as funny but I think there's a lot...
  20. shindeco

    Suit language

    I have a booklet put out by "True, The Men's Magazine" in 1952 called "Buy your Clothes as You Buy a Car" that I picked up in a junk store years ago. It's actually pretty good for a booklet (28 pages, 4'x5"). eg; when they talk about fabric choice: "If weight is important to you, ask your...
  21. shindeco

    Necktie Knots

    Always dimple...just 'cause I like it. It also gives me something to do. I'm a terrible tie fiddler; can't keep my hands off them :rolleyes: I'm forever checking the dimple, collar pin ...
  22. shindeco

    Remove your hat?

    Totally understand your feelings. I always take my hat off if I can but you can't always. There's not much you can do but leave it on. Hat removing only came into vogue when Victoria became queen, anyway. Before that, gentlemen would often wear their hats indoors so there IS an historic precedent.
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    The Chap Quiz

    It's related to work ... really. Give me enough time and I'm sure I can come up with a connection! (In my own defence, it WAS lunch break) ;)

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