Elvis is what I was thinking. Or Harry Belafonte. If you're neither of those guys, I'd leave it alone. A shirt collar out over a sweater, though, can look really nice: I often do it with a white shirt and a Fair Isle sweater vest.
Thanks. Maybe we could start a sort of sympathy thread, like "Help the Homeless," but call it "Help the Hat-Challenged." Whenever somebody sees a hat for sale in a larger size they could give us a "heads up." I'm not proud.
I was given the Coach messenger bag for Christmas about twenty years ago: I believe it was the first of its kind. I've used it almost daily since then and had the strap resewn once. Great bag. I particularly like the outside pouch in which you can put newspapers, umbrellas, etc.
It is really interesting how little men's clothes changed before the 1960's or so. Some of the guys in that photo wouldn't have been out of place in the 1950's. When I think about it, though, I realize that I don't dress today very differently than I did forty years ago.
That was a great time for men's clothes. Don't some of the hats look to be of a later date, though? I'm thinking of the gent in the lighter-colored suit at the bottom left and the guy on the top left.
A Borsalino Bellagio that makes me look like Chico Marx. I just can't part with it, though, because it's a beautiful navy blue and is as soft as a baby's bum (as Mom used to say).
Funny the attitudes you hear: when I was in Helsinki a woman in a book store claimed that the only "proper" form of English was the one spoken by the British upper class. I reminded her of Twain's comment,"If you wake up an Englishman in the middle of the night he talks just like everybody else."
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