I am sorry about that. You just have to get used to top hats, plus with the morning coat and db dove grey waistcoat it is alot of work. I could care less what anybody thinks, I just wear what makes me happy, positive, and confident. I can see why you don't. I don't like alot of attention either...
I have him in his grey double breasted chalkstripe 6x1 suit and solid black tie in forbes right on my kitchen counter. I will try and find a way to put it online. Is it just me or does the lapel not cross over enough to x1 on the 6x1. As it looks caught between symetrical and
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Yes Deeelovely, it was quite common in the late teens and 1920's to see top hats with regular suits not just with formal wear such as morning coats, tail coats, and frock coats. The whole top hat height to jacket length mystrey is overplayed. Unless it is a stovepipe hat(over 8 inches)... this...
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Yes, they photoshoped the fedora. I think he had a gas pump instead of a tommy gun. Joke being the mafia of the 21st century are multi-national corporations.:eek:
20 years ago? Look at Russia now. Putin has his oil and his investors from the west, he can flex his arm and dismantle any attempt for freedom and democracy in the name of national security.
Hey but look at the bright side the Economist did show him with a fedora on the cover.
A tribily usually denotes a brim around 2 1/4 inches. You can always go with a hat whith a shorter crown and a wider brim say 2 1/2-2 3/4 and look perfectly preportionate.
Also countries like the DDR (East Germany)were producing mens dress hats. I would not be surprised if countries from the Warsaw Pact such as the DDR were supplying hats to the Russians.
It would be very intersting to know if a custom hatters business was publically or privatley owned. Some...
Wow, this is one of the most interesting posts I have ever seen on the Fedora Lounge.:eusa_clap :eusa_clap
If you look at pictures of people standing in long lines at markets(simplisticy put-due to the command economies destruction of the price mechanism)in the CCCP in the 1980's, you will...
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