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  1. Flanderian

    Show Us Your Wool

    One more from the archive.
  2. Flanderian

    Walking Sticks & Canes.

    A unique bit of folk art, and very well done I think!
  3. Flanderian

    Walking Sticks & Canes.

    Fascinating!
  4. Flanderian

    Show Us Your Wool

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  5. Flanderian

    Show Us Your Wool

    I have a fondness for nice woolens, and a similar enthusiasm for vintage forms and advertising. I hope that's not out of place here. The first of the two illustrations below is from unknow advertising, but I believe the second might be from L L Bean, a long time U.S. retailer from the state of...
  7. Flanderian

    Show Us Your Wool

  8. Flanderian

    Digitised Finnish Catalogues 1929-1993

    Some very cool stuff! Thank you.
  9. Flanderian

    Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

    You're very welcome, gentlemen! :)
  10. Flanderian

    Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

    You are very welcome, sir! And I'm delighted that it included a topic you particularly enjoy.
  11. Flanderian

    Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

    At last, we finish out the glorious year of 1949, roughly 15 years after Esquire's maiden issue of September 1933. The term Golden Age is more evocative than defined, and depending upon subjective preference might have concluded a half decade earlier, or continue further into mid-century modern...
  13. Flanderian

    Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

    This is part 2 of 2 of Esquire, November 1949. While arguably not sartorial content, the following 2 pages touch upon topics frequently questioned in various sartorial forums, so it would be a shame not to recover Esquire's views on them, circa 1949.
  14. Flanderian

    Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

    If she wants to be my gal, I'm holding out for shahtoosh! :cool:
  15. Flanderian

    Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

    This is part 1 of 2 of Esquire, November 1949.
  16. Flanderian

    Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

    The name doesn't disturb me. While deceit is the glory of advertising, ;) I read it more as suggestive that the alpaca fiber content created cloth with a vicuna-like hand. Though all of my familiarity with actual vicuna is confined to a touch, my limited understanding of its properties suggests...
  17. Flanderian

    Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

    Frankly, I had just not considered that simple and useful solution! :oops:
  19. Flanderian

    Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

    Had forgotten about the corduroy long coats of the '70's, and that certainly isn't one I'd wish to resurrect! :oops: Agree concerning the shirts and ties being emblematic Mid-century Modern (And the art work is very nice also.) but I'm troubled by the continuation of what I first observed as a...
  20. Flanderian

    Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

    Part 2 of 2 of Esquire, October 1949. The coat below is handsome, but more of interest because of the particular blend of fibers used in the spinning and weaving of the cloth. Alpaca is a marvelous natural fiber possessing a good deal of the softness and warmth of cashmere, but...
  21. Flanderian

    Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

    This is part 1 of 2 of Esquire, October 1949.
  22. Flanderian

    Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

    Part 2 of 2 of Esquire, September 1949. Somehow, selecting corduroy for a raincoat sounds counterproductive, irrespective of being treated for water repellency. But it still makes a good looking coat! When Sam Mendes was making his excellent 2002 Depression era crime melodrama, Road to...
  23. Flanderian

    Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

    Thought the same thing. Numbers 3 & 4 are right in my wheelhouse and very much presage the Ivy fashions 8 to 10 years later.

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