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  1. herringbonekid

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    i hate to say it, but it's because of how things looked; the hair, the aprons, the cars, the lawn mowers. young people who weren't there at the time and are looking back for an image of some retro idyll (an antidote to today's 'anything goes' approach) ; the 50s is the first port of call...
  2. herringbonekid

    Suits - Pre 1920

  3. herringbonekid

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    in times of change and economic uncertainty 'good old fashioned values' seem reassuring again; the 50s was the most recent decade for that... in the popular imagination. (in the UK the 40s is by far the most rose-tinted of the decades).
  4. herringbonekid

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    not at all; marketing simply exploits this tendency of the human brain.
  5. herringbonekid

    Urban Alienation

    it's basically the moment when the human being looks around themselves and sees the collective fantasy that we're sharing / have been sold, crumble away, and 'reality' intervenes in a moment of awareness (which is usually disturbing). aside from Hopper, painters who have mined this territory...
  7. herringbonekid

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    there's a bit of the human brain that thinks in a generalised, cartoony way. it simplifies things down to easy-to-remember-broad-strokes which have a tendency to lodge in the brain. its how caricature works. it works especially well if you don't have a particular interest in the nuances of the...
  8. herringbonekid

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    'Grease' is pure camp, cartoonishness. i doubt the makers of the film would argue otherwise, or expect it to be held up as a realistic depiction. blaming the whole thing on 'marketing' is just more grinding of that personal axe of yours.
  9. herringbonekid

    Freewheeler's rauschenberg jacket, size 42"

    great jacket. too big for me.
  10. herringbonekid

    Suits - Pre 1920

  11. herringbonekid

    The Vintage Tailoring Thread

    there are creases there, but they don't look too tight the way Nick's do. i get it. but Nick is making a 30s-40s jacket, not a Victorian jacket, and it has a decent amount of sleeve head wadding; it's a classic / sculpted / high crown (similar to the Astaire examples). therefore a low crown...
  13. herringbonekid

    The Vintage Tailoring Thread

    notice that in this picture of Nick raising his arms the tension isn't in the crown; it's in the area just below. the crown isn't affected by the arm raise: none of these jackets of Fred Astaire's have a low crown. they all have a sizeable amount of wadding, in some cases almost a rope. in...
  14. herringbonekid

    What are you wearing today??

    is that a stage set Sproily ?
  15. herringbonekid

    The Vintage Tailoring Thread

    this is getting confusing. the English article above says to add more crown to counteract the folds, not take some crown off. both can't have the same effect. :confused:
  16. herringbonekid

    The Vintage Tailoring Thread

    how so ? i thought most sleeves that are made for ease of movement have the excess in the armpit. e.g. shooting jackets, Fred Astaire's jackets for dancing in... but don't hang so cleanly when the arm is vertical.
  17. herringbonekid

    You Ain't SEEN Nuthin' yet...

    fortunately i think most of Ray Kurweil and his ilk's ideas are pure sci-fi fantasy (see; the technological singularity prediction for instance) and doomed to failure, but not before they've wasted a gazillion dollars on it.
  19. herringbonekid

    You Ain't SEEN Nuthin' yet...

    not at all. transhumanism, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, etc. etc. IS the modern equivalent of the space race. the transhumanist dream is basically that one day we will be able to download our consciousness into a 'perfect' synthetic body that will never age or die, or if it...
  20. herringbonekid

    Introducing my British Cinema blog ...

    TT, have you watched the British Musicals DVD yet ? i'm tempted to buy it since it's got Henry Hall (BBC Dance Orchestra) in it.
  21. herringbonekid

    The Cap Faction

    lovely cap Johnny.
  22. herringbonekid

    Your Favorite Paintings

    more from Anne Magill: the above is an obvious swipe from this photo of a young Cecil Beaton:
  23. herringbonekid

    Pre-1950s British/European sportswear and leisurewear

    and the real thing: chap on the right; if Cary Grant had been a rugby player from Huddersfield.

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