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  1. nightandthecity

    VARIOUS VINTAGE ITEMS FOR SALE

    yep, I got some nice prices on the WW2 aviation stuff......£450 for my old Mk7 goggles, I'm reeling!!! It's all going to pay off the overdraft unfortunately! I've Just finished listing various vintage and "classic" items, lets hope a few hi rollers come to this party too.
  2. nightandthecity

    VARIOUS VINTAGE ITEMS FOR SALE

    Currently listing on Ebay, lots of vintage and classic clothes, male and female, from 1930s razors to 1990s Borsalino......more to come. http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZzippgunnQQhtZ-1
  3. nightandthecity

    Fair Isle sweaters

    You get quite a lot of them on ebay UK, both vintage and recent. In fact I'll be listing one myself soon, small size unfortunately.
  4. nightandthecity

    Jackass 2 ??

    surely you haven't forgotten Biltmore Bob already??!
  5. nightandthecity

    Dressing up

    oh, not THOSE special occassions! I meant things like gigs, dances, parties.... ........which I suppose does sometimes lead to....(thinks: when in a hole stop digging)
  7. nightandthecity

    Dressing up

    all the time....I stopped wearing modern clothes years ago. In the 60s I wore some vintage. In the 70s I wore a lot of vintage. In the 80s I wore mostly vintage. By the late 80s I was wearing all vintage, with the following exceptions... I have a lot of vintage socks and underwear, but I...
  8. nightandthecity

    Why do you wear suits? . . .

    pretty much what HBK just said. I dislike most modern suits. I like a lot of 1930s and 40s suits. But that's how I feel about clothes generally, not just suits.
  9. nightandthecity

    Thread

    well, that's good news (the burn test I mean)! I've always understood that the burn test is more reliable. I've heard that things like traces of detergent can make cotton glow. I don't know about silk. But I'm now wondering about viscose/rayon which is made from wood pulp and is only a...
  10. nightandthecity

    Thread

    On reflection, 99% certain is an extreme statement - a thinking person shouldn’t be that certain of anything! Let’s just say I am fairly sure, but not absolutely certain, on this. I’ll explain my evidence and reasoning. First, let me say I have been a collector and dealer in both...
  11. nightandthecity

    The Notorious Bettie Paige

    Seems it is on at our local flea pit this weekend. Only just found out. I'll try and go see it tommorow night, the last night.
  13. nightandthecity

    Thread

    you can be 99% sure it means the thread is artificial fibre and thus almost certainly post war. If the patches don't glow they are probably genuine. The odds are that a genuine jacket has had genuine patches added at a later date. Unfortunately this happens all the time. Sometimes it's...
  14. nightandthecity

    The Spanish Civil War

    I found this page recently on former IRA leader Peadar O'Donnell in Spain. I'd always thought of him as just another Stalinist hack, but it seems an Anarchist spirit lurked within. http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/rbr/rbr5/peader.html Another great site for SCW images is the Hulton Getty...
  15. nightandthecity

    Mass evacuation for bomb removal

    live .50 calibre rounds turn up regularly on the old 8th Air Force bases. I remember visiting the 100th BG museum at Thorpe Abbotts once and someone was sat on a step emptying out old rounds preparatory to selling them as souvenirs! There was a case in Liverpool about a month ago where a...
  16. nightandthecity

    girls in guy's garb

    I have the picture you mean HBK (with the naked model). It's by Helmut Newton, 1975. It's in the very wonderful Taschen book "Paris Mon Amour", a collection of vintage photos of Paris. Back to the issue of femininity in men, no one has mentioned the late Bunny Roger, a sartorial giant, the...
  17. nightandthecity

    Walking Sticks & Canes.

    I have three walking sticks. An ash plant (the traditional English fighting stick) and two antique blackthorn sticks (the traditional Irish fighting stick...in fact one of them is actually an old faction fighter's stick from the early 19th century, and is strictly for display). Still looking...
  19. nightandthecity

    OH MY GOD!

    Just found this thread. At first I thought it was a joke. For once I'm (almost) speechless. Mind you, the reasoning behind it isn't new. I've always found the false shirt fronts and backless waistcoats of formal wear rather disturbing too.
  20. nightandthecity

    How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Suit

    oh.... ........... Shaul, we could start a pro-dot organization. Call it Join the Dots...........
  21. nightandthecity

    How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Suit

    If the 1930s and 40s are our guide, pocket squares are definitely optional. My impression from old film/photos is that for most people the square was reserved for more formal ocassions. Personally, I would only wear one when "steppng out".
  22. nightandthecity

    The BEST 1930s Suit Ever?

    wonderful suit. I love early/mid 30s design. I have a very similar DB I'd date to mid thirties, in a gorgeous heavy dark blue hopsack. Made by a small tailor in Hull (which reminds me, one leg is too long: memo, take it up before next wearing!)
  23. nightandthecity

    Stroller - Morning Dress only?

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