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  1. Shangas

    Happy Chinese New Year 2012. Monday, January 23rd. DRAGON!

    A happy Chinese New Year to everyone! So ends the Year of the Rabbit and we start anew with the Year of the Dragon! Were you born in the year of the Dragon? If after your birthday this year, your age is divisible by 12, then you were. What attributes are Dragons supposed to have? According to...
  2. Shangas

    Custom Made Linen Suit, Panama Hat, linen-leather Spectators?

    The linen look of the shoes would also match the light colours of the suit. And that would look awesome.
  3. Shangas

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

    Well that's just my point, really. Jeans are designed to be hardwearing, for heavy work. They were originally invented in the 1850s for miners and gold-prospectors working in California. It's for that reason that I find them unsuitable for wearing in any other situation apart from heavy work...
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    Custom Made Linen Suit, Panama Hat, linen-leather Spectators?

    The calf-brown and linen look best in my opinion. The others are too dark. The patterning and the nice, tooled leather just vanishes into insignificance. The linen makes it stand out nice and crisp and decorative.
  5. Shangas

    Wool Felt and Fur Felt in the Rain

    I've been caught in heavy downpours with felt fedoras before with little or no consequences. They might get a bit soggy, but once they're dried out, everything should be fine. Wool hats on the other hand, I'm told, cannot handle the same amount of heavy rain that a felt hat can. It shrinks and...
  7. Shangas

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

    I don't wear jeans because... 1. I don't like the connotations. Jeans were invented as working-class labouring trousers. I'm not working class and I'm not a labourer. 2. I find jeans very uncomfortable. Denim fabric and me just do NOT see eye-to-eye. Never have. 3. I can never find a style...
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    The devolution of our society through fashion in just two pictures.

    Last year for Chinese New Year, I wore a red tie for dinner. Red being the traditional Chinese colour of celebration. My mother immediately asked me why I was 'so dressed up' and that it would 'put off everyone else at dinner'. I don't care. I'll wear what I want. I told her...
  9. Shangas

    Styles for Asian backgrounds

    This is my family, ca. 1952. Batu Pahat, Malaysia. At the back is my uncle. In the front are my grandmother and grandfather. The little boy on the right is my dad.
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    Styles for Asian backgrounds

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    Styles for Asian backgrounds

    That is a very interesting coat and belt...
  13. Shangas

    Styles for Asian backgrounds

    We'll see, I'm sure. Another movie you might consider is "International Settlement". It came out in the late 1930s. It's about a group of American tourists on holiday in Shanghai and their experiences there. I've only seen part of it, but since it's more contemperous, it might give you an even...
  14. Shangas

    Styles for Asian backgrounds

    Hi PP. I'm also an ABC living in Australia. Maybe we can chat and help each other. What most people tend to forget is that the East had a fair bit of Western influence in the pre-and-interwar years. Especially in places such as Vietnam (Saigon), China (Shanghai International Settlement)...
  15. Shangas

    Our Senior Centers

    My late grandmother, who died in November last year (97 years old), spent her last years in a nursing home with severe Alzheimers. It is a truly crippling disease. I know a lot of people say "I understand". But seriously. They don't. Unless you have actually SEEN and LIVED with someone who...
  16. Shangas

    Man Cave/Vintage Lounge - Thoughts, anyone? (Heavy with photos)

    The bentwood tree is the classic hat-and-coat-and-umbrella-and-walking-stick rack. I'm not surprised :)
  17. Shangas

    My beautiful new briefcase...STINKS!

    So when do we get to see a photo or two?
  19. Shangas

    Music For Seduction...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YdMaZRVUU8 David Rose and His Orchestra - "The Stripper".
  20. Shangas

    My Finest ART DECO Item

    I am compelled to ask. What is a 'radio lamp' and how does it differ from any other lamp?
  21. Shangas

    How to get started in Fountain Pens

    Thanks Connery. I try to make it as informative, interesting and as entertaining as possible.
  22. Shangas

    SS Andrea Doria

    Yes. The Stockholm and the Andrea Doria crashed in fog off of the East Coast of the U.S. in 1956. Laws of the sea dictated that when two ships were heading towards each other, both were obliged to turn starboard (right) so as to open up a gap between them. If I remember the case...
  23. Shangas

    Watch Chains

    Thanks. I love it too :)

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