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  1. Shangas

    A Trip to London + Edinburgh (Vintage & Antiquey Things...Where's They Be?)

    Thanks Rockets. I'm aware of the cameras and valuables things, and pickpockets. I keep my valuables very close to me (or back at the hotel). Seeing as we *are* going to a wedding, we might be bringing more expensive things than usual. I don't see anyone stealing MY camera though. It's a pretty...
  2. Shangas

    A Trip to London + Edinburgh (Vintage & Antiquey Things...Where's They Be?)

    What ho, chaps and chapettes! As some of you may have gathered from various random posts of mine around the forum, in August, I'm being dragged off to Europe by my parents. We've all three, been invited to my mother's friend's wedding in Edinburgh in early August. As such, we're kinda going...
  3. Shangas

    Hats in ADWEEK

    Justin Bieber wearing a bowtie is more likely to force it's DECLINE rather than a resurgence...
  4. Shangas

    Summer ball help

    If you're wearing a dinner-suit ("tuxedo"), it is ONLY acceptable to wear a black bowtie with it.
  5. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    For $40, I bought this: Size-comparison with the other box I own:
  7. Shangas

    Help/Advice Needed for Decorating this Room

    My first suggestion: Get rid of that gawd-awful blind in front of the window!! From the list of bits and pieces that you're chucking in here, it sounds like you're trying to develop a sort of den/study/office/"man-cave" kinda look. The wall next to the door is where I would put a hat-rack and...
  8. Shangas

    Decorating a WW2 themed room.

    Depending on whether you're doing British or American-style WWII, you might also want... A Brodie helmet with "ARP" on it (for "Air Raid Precautions) and a metropolitan-style police-whistle (for gettin' them slow ones down into the shelter quick-smart!). You'll also need, along with the...
  9. Shangas

    Hey guys, new member here. May I get some general critiques from you gents?

    Summer hats would've been palm-woven Panamas, or straw boaters. The boater is the flat, straw hat commonly worn by butchers, barbershop quartet-men, and Venetian gondoliers, after whom they're named (they were invented in Italy). Panama hats were invented in Ecquador in the 1830s, I believe...
  10. Shangas

    So, I got me this Fez see.....

    I thought he looked familiar! "As the leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca, I am an influential and respected man."
  11. Shangas

    What are you listening to?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYK1g-3thYw&feature=fvwrel "Kitten on the Keys" by Edward 'Zez' Confrey was inspired by his grandmother's pet cat running across her piano. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWs3170wNsI "Chevy Chase Rag", by Eubie Blake. I'd love to know the meaning behind the...
  13. Shangas

    S.S. El Estero & the Manhattan Disaster (that almost happened)

    Read up on the Halifax Explosion of 1917. Until Hiroshima, it was the biggest explosion in the world. To this day, it remains the biggest accidental exposion.
  14. Shangas

    Decorating a WW2 themed room.

    Perhaps buy a Morrison Shelter as a coffee-table. Or potentially, make your own.
  15. Shangas

    What's for Dinner?

    Chicken.
  16. Shangas

    So, I got me this Fez see.....

    "The Adventure of the Empty House". "Your theory is to be just as likely as the next. Watson, have you formed one?" "Mmmm...I think I have. The Fez, being an awesome hat, should return to fashion. It hasn't because people are yet to find a practical use for it in this sun-conscious 21st...
  17. Shangas

    Showing Support

    BR Gordon, Valentine, you're both very welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Along the issue of not showing off your shirt, was the issue of what you wore OVER your shirt. There was this saying, it went: "No Brown in Town". It meant that all your nice tweeds, browns, light greys, linens etc, you...
  19. Shangas

    Pocketwatches

    From what I can see, it's a very nice watch. Not the best mechanical quality, but it's certainly not the worst.
  20. Shangas

    Pocketwatches

    I'd say this is early 20th century. I'm only vaguely familiar with Thos. Russell. I have heard of the name before, and in England I believe it's a name held in respect in British watch-collecting circles. It's an English movement cased in an American case. The Latin on the dial: "Tempus Fugit"...
  21. Shangas

    Show us your suits

    I keep moaning about it, but here it is. My ONE and ONLY suit: I don't know about the rest of you, but I think it is GHASTLY.
  22. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Clean them up, get some new elastic for them and they'd go great with a drop-top car of any kind.
  23. Shangas

    The devolution of our society through fashion in just two pictures.

    I'm gonna have to remember that photo...

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