Want to buy or sell something? Check the classifieds
  • The Fedora Lounge is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

Search results

  1. Edward

    Photo of a gentleman wearing a waistcoat with a white piping on the edge

    Interesting seeing this come around again. This is a detail which is still around, but you'll only see it, certainly here in England, in rarefied circles. The present King I believe I've seen pictured in the popular press wearing one. Royalty might be worth looking into as a sourced of images on...
  2. Edward

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    We were the lucky ones (2024; TV miniseries, on streaming) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9114512/ The true story of a Polish Jewish family and how they escaped the Nazis. It's a tough watch in places, but an excellent piece of historical drama. It's well worth a watch - well made, gripping...
  3. Edward

    Auschwitz Anniversary

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/27/among-monarchs-and-presidents-focus-of-auschwitz-anniversary-is-on-50-survivors Seeing the coverage of this, I'm so pleased the focus has been not on the heads of state and the politicos, but the survivors themselves. There's a real sense that this...
    • Edward
    • Thread
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: WWII
  4. Edward

    Excessive posting? ... Interesting.....

    It ebbs and flows a bit, but certainly quieter now than we were when I first wandered in around 2007. It's the same across what we might call the "Vintage [20s-60s] scene" more broadly. I've seen a lot of events and suppliers disappear, or move on to another period. People come in and out. Eras...
  5. Edward

    Dr Martens

    Certainly iconic. Not many wardrobe items can claim to have been popular as a staple in so many rather different (often clashing) subcultures. I'm trying to think of something that might run them close. The USAF MA1? Maybe. Potentially Converse All Stars? Probably only the generic jeans (though...
  7. Edward

    What are you listening to?

    I try to avoid streaming (though once in a while I'll track down something rare, or look out for new music to purchase via youtube), so I do tend to have to seek out what I want to listen to. My most recent musical purchases have been a couple of newly-released lived archived recordings of The...
  8. Edward

    Excessive posting? ... Interesting.....

    Quite so. You end up either on all the socials or none of them. As the networks have themselves become news items in recent years, not always in a positive way, and the market has fragmented, it has become the case you either have to choose which is the best marketing tool, or to commit to an...
  9. Edward

    The Elephant in the Room - Man Purse

    Yes, look about right to fit a laptop as well as a change of shirt and underwear, and a couple of necessary bits.
  10. Edward

    Who is the most famous person you have met?

    Met Glen Matlock twice last year - a truly underrated musician. His Sex PIstols legacy has been rather overshadowed by the Sid Vicious mythology (in reality Glen was central to the writing, one of several reasons things turned to chaos and the band crumbled within a year or so of him quitting)...
  11. Edward

    Dr Martens

    Certainly - branding, and , yes, I think a lot of people do buy them for the sole. Ironically the sole was one of the main reasons I stopped wearing them - partly an aesthetic thing, partly a more solid sole just wears better for me. But undeniably comfortable when the shoe is broken in.
  13. Edward

    Sizing help for Aero Pilot Jackets

    Yes. This. I'm the same height now as I was when I was 21, but I'm also a full ten inches bigger round the middle. I've been bigger than that again (by nearly another 10") as an adult. Since shifting a lot of weight, I've also found that in the last twenty years - fifty now - my shoulders have...
  14. Edward

    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Admittedly I've never been inspired by their leathers. The nylons appealed as I've always had a passing interest in those but could never justify the big money the Japanese brands commend. I suppose in part because I would look at a nylon jacket as something I'd read for when I wouldn't want to...
  15. Edward

    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Has anyone tried Five Star's textiles? I have looked on and off at the USN summer cotton jacket for a few years. I see now they have a nylon B15D which looks really nice on the website...
  16. Edward

    The Elephant in the Room - Man Purse

    Wouldn't put that past our Bertie. Though he's technically a rescue, his mum was taken into the shelter pregnant; he was born there and has never had to live rough. And yet still his den in our lounge is always full of trash. He's got a real magpie eye, forever pulling shiny bits and crisp bags...
  17. Edward

    Vintage Hats from 1920's - 40's Ireland Question

    Seem to be common to both us and the bigger island next door. I've never traced the exact history of them, but it seems to me that the waxed cotton shorter jackets we see in both Ireland and Britain today largely evolved from fishermen's oilskins, via motorcycling and into the country set.
  19. Edward

    Who is the most famous person you have met?

    Interesting question. I suspect it probably depends who is famous to whom.... Off the top of my head... Many years ago I used to bump into Rick the drummer from Ash fairly regularly, as well as Imelda May, back in the early days of her solo band when a friend was her bass player. I met David...
  20. Edward

    Excessive posting? ... Interesting.....

    As things sit currently, I think you're probably right. I know I've certainly fallen out of the practice of using email much at all outside of work. Within the office, there are younger members of staff trying to push the use of the direct messaging facility on Teams as an alternative to email...
  21. Edward

    The Elephant in the Room - Man Purse

    My Indy bag (and seemingly every pocket in every jack I own now....) often has poo bags in it... The resident Hound of the Marlowes is as effective as this at taking up the bed... despite him only being a fraction of the size he thinks he is, as a jackhuahua.....
  22. Edward

    So I bought a pair of Diamond Gusset Jeans via All American Clothing company

    I've not had a pair in a very long time, but back in the 90s I used to live in what we called combat trousers, invariably 60s / 70s issue, either German or Dutch. I remember the latter most fondly as they were a nicer cloth, less crude. Neat little knife pocket down on the side of the right calf...
  23. Edward

    Footwear to go with our jackets

    For sure it's the universal leather colour. I wish more manufacturers would make it as much a default as black or brown.

Latest posts

Members online

... and 32 more.
Total: 3,760 (members: 82, guests: 3,678)

Forum statistics

Threads
111,200
Messages
3,116,832
Members
55,507
Latest member
SebastianP
Top