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  1. martinsantos

    Johnny Depp influence: Wisconsin bankers want no hats

    :D :D :D Bankers and law enforcement officials think that criminals have specific clothing to work, don't they? Killers use leather gloves. Bank robbers use hats, and so on. When "The Sting" was lauched, the hippodromes had any trouble with fedoras too?
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    This generation of kids...

    I do the same, specially in texts for myself... As a left-handed, my caligraphy is terrible, even writing slow with fountain pens. But it's a unique way to put clearly the ideas on paper for developement. This electronic world is strange. I only see young people using electronic...
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    This generation of kids...

    I'm atonished about people who don't use cursive in writing. It is so much easier and quicker! Just don't figure why schools don't teach it. My parents are teachers (now retired), and they only permited me to write in cursive.
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    Which decade is the worst in terms of style?

    lol lol
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    This generation of kids...

    Tom, they think I'm fighting the whole stabilishment - all "the system". Maybe they believe in an analog photo conspiracy theory... :eeek:
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    Which decade is the worst in terms of style?

    There is something worse than a hippie. In 70s, a lot of people dressed this way, get into flower power and so on. But how about those guys who are still in hippie style, since the 70s? We have some here, making and selling psicodellic drawings since those days. (I have some photos, but...
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    This generation of kids...

    A funny comment i got this weekend by three kids (around 15 y.o.), two boys and a girl. I was shooting around with my camera, a Leica from 1953. Of course it uses film, and it's always loaded with B&W film. They came to talk with me about, asked if it uses film, when it was produced and so on. I...
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    Which decade is the worst in terms of style?

    My vote would be 1967-1977. Horrible time for style... 1967 because then I can include in this that movie with fred Astaire and Petullah Clark (urgh!). But it's a movie that can tell a lot about those years. And make me think (and cry) when we remember that 10 years before he was filming...
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    Wanna Meet a Lounger?

    I would love to meet in person a lot of loungers! (and thanks to those who nominated me - I greatly apreciated!) After years exchanging correspondence, and met dozens of people who I knew only by writing, I can assure it's a very fine experience. My biggest trouble about finding loungers...
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    Film Noir?

    Just discovered this... It was realesed here as "Afrontando a Morte" in 1949/50 (in those days they used to change completely the titles here in Brazil!). And never more saw a screen.
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    Film Noir?

    Sounds interesting! I'll look around to see.
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    Gene Krupa

    Fine and interesting comparison!
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    What Are You Reading

    Must be very interesting! Shaw is one of my preferred writers. And probably I'm one of his last fans here - his complete work was translated and published here last time in 50s.
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    The DIY Vintage Repair Before/After Thread

    Great work!
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    Gene Krupa

    For me Krupa is the very very best, of all times. In close second place, Buddy Rich. But Chas reminded a few VERY GREAT drummers. Dave Tough, Ray Bauduc, Chick Webb are always a pleasure to listen. McKinley too - but is'nt everytime that I want to listen his singing.
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    Will we ever see a return to more formal clothes?

    My answer to the thread question is a big "NO". People never will stop using more formal clothes, in several professions or places. But I really can't see any chance to the return of something like the 30s, when everybody used a suit, hats, etc, everyday. The suits could be bad tailored, the...
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    What Are You Reading

    This surprized me too when readed the book. And agree with you, the movie is better and far more interesting.
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    What Are You Reading

    Hunter S. Thompson, again. Fear and loathing in Las Vegas. Very interesting, and make me imagine about the people's thinking about their times in 1971.
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    The DIY Vintage Repair Before/After Thread

    Thanks, Mike! This is certainly a kind of vocabulary that usually we don't learn in school books... :rolleyes:
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    Facebook anybody?

    Maybe something quick (a party for example) this can be interesting. But when we just wnat to find again those friends who disapeared and had no clues about what happened... Facebook and similar sites are just the top.

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