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  1. Shangas

    I need suit advice.

    Trousers are definitely too long. You'll be tripping over them all day. Get them to a tailor and have them hemmed. Or if you're like me (cheap), you can run them through your own sewing machine and do it yourself. Of course, hemming won't help if the trousers are overall too big. It's only worth...
  2. Shangas

    Tying an Ascot Without it Choking You?

    I've always done a half or double-windsor and then just not bothered with the final step.
  3. Shangas

    Show Us Your Mechanical Clocks!

    I searched rather extensively for this, but couldn't find anything, so I'm creating a thread for it. If such a thread already exists, then my apologies in advance. I create this thread for my fellow loungers to share photographs (and stories, if any exist) behind the *mechanical* vintage or...
  4. Shangas

    Toilet back-fires, sinks U-Boat

    If you're underwater, would rough seas necessarily be a problem? "Und now gentlemen, to the commode. This newly invented toilet facility will allow for underwater use in the roughest seas, providing the greatest level of comfort ever known by submariner!"
  5. Shangas

    Toilet back-fires, sinks U-Boat

    This entire thread is just full of schlitts and giggles...every single post here had me laughing my butt off!!
  7. Shangas

    What Have You Acquired From Family?

    I love that panama hat!!
  8. Shangas

    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    From this: ...to this... ...to this: 1945 Singer Model 15 'Indian Star'.
  9. Shangas

    30s glasses

    As Ingineer says, solid gold spectacle frames would likely be too thin (and weak) to be useful. So it'd either be very low gold-content (like 9kt or something), or it'd be gold-filled brass (both of which would be stronger). Personally think silver spectacles would look nicer. I think a friend...
  10. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I saw a hot water bottle like that at an antiques shop once for a fairly good price. For some reason I didn't buy it. It was yellow coloured. Copper or brass, I think.
  11. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I love the hot-water bottle. And the pocketwatch. What's that thing underneath the pocket watch? My latest finds: Ivory straight razor from the 1890s, and another whistle.
  13. Shangas

    Show us your photography

    Today, I bought an antique ivory razor. Here it is: Me being artsy :)
  14. Shangas

    What Kind of Tie is Li'l Wally Wearing?

    Looks like a variation of the way that Jeremy Brett (as Sherlock Holmes) wore his bowties: **Screw it. I give up trying to post the picture here...** I may be wrong. The picture-quality is not fantastic.
  15. Shangas

    What are the Oldest Objects you Own?

    My 'oldest object' now has to be updated to this: Sterling silver gilt-interior vinaigrette. Hallmarked Birmingham, Sterling Silver, Thomas Spicer, 1823, duty paid. I own a piece of Georgian silver!...it's a very small piece of late Georgian silver...but it's still...
  16. Shangas

    Best Gable movie?

    I haven't seen too many Gable films, but one of my favourites is "San Francisco" from 1936, with Spencer Tracy.
  17. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Nearly broke my back getting the damn thing home, but how's this for flea-market find? 1945 Singer 15 "Indian Star", manufactured, as the name suggests, for the Indian market. It's a hand-crank "portable" model...which I find to be something beyond hilarious - this thing has to weigh more...
  19. Shangas

    Windows10, anyone having probs after downloading it ?????

    Loads of problems. Reverted back to Win8 where I feel safe.
  20. Shangas

    Show us your photography

  21. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Does the top lift up on that table for storage/have drawers? It looks lovely!!
  22. Shangas

    Denim is Inappropriate for the Golden Era

    Considering that Levi Strauss has been around since 1850-whatever, I don't see how jeans or denim would be considered 'inappropriate' for the Golden Era...
  23. Shangas

    Gentlemen, show us what you've made!

    A week ago, I bought an antique wallet, with a view of pulling it apart, rebuilding the lining and then reassembling it. Unfortunately, the wallet was in FAR worse a condition than I realised, and it just crumbled when I tried to pull it apart. I pulled out the steel clasp which was the...
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