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    Art Fawcett VS Hall of Fame

    I've known Art for more than a decade, but this is my first full custom hat from him(took me long enough, right?). I've had a number of gray hats over the years, but the proportions have never been right and they've suffered damage and abuse that made them unpresentable. Since gray is a...
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    Will Eisner's THE SPIRIT

    Miller has all the subtlety and nuance of a jackhammer operating at 5 am in a residential neighborhood on a Saturday morning. Great if you're into the whole chaos and disorder thing. Horrible if you like Eisner's approach to vigilantism and storytelling in general. Potential...wasted.
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    Maltese Falcon Tie

    Well, if you look at the file names on those images...one is 'red' and the other 'maroon'. Remember, I'm making the images, Indy's making the ties. The images are purely concept art - they're not meant to be exact.
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    Maltese Falcon Tie

    ...and here we are:
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    Maltese Falcon Tie

    Since we've got a poll running, putting up another variation is a bit moot / disruptive. If Indy gives it the go ahead, I've got it primed and waiting. (it's his show, after all, I'm just helping out)
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    Patent Leather

    ...for some reason I can't edit my previous post, so here's more info: You can use a product called Leather Luster, which give a brilliant nearly permanent patent shine, but it seals off the leather and will cause cracking after prolonged use. Best to do this to a pair of shoes you don't wear...
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    Patent Leather

    Get a pair of corrected grain or otherwise very smooth-grained plain-toe black shoes, spit shine them, then use Protect-a-Shine to get the final mirror shine. I have a pair of black Penny's Staffords done this way, and there's little difference between them and a patent finish, other than...
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    Maltese Falcon Tie

    Aha! I was wondering if the book specified what color the tie was, but I didn't have a copy handy. Bogart's Spade is wearing the patterned tie in the scene with Wilmer in the lobby, so now we've at least got a lock on the correct color. Indy, I'll hold off making another in maroon (which is...
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    Maltese Falcon Tie

    Green, you say? A poll with each style numbered might be in order.
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    Jaxon Bogart

    'B2B' means Business to Business, or in layman's terms, wholesale. That's the wholesale price to resellers for a batch of 6 of the same hat. ...funny that they'd put that in a spot where the general public can see it. Usually wholesale prices are only available to resellers upon request.
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    Maltese Falcon Tie

    Okay, here are some red designs, and some based on other requests(such as yellow over blue with red), and the unaltered tie for tonal reference: ...I lost a considerable amount of sleep last night watching the film, and Sam Spade's ties were mostly a plain black(or other dark color), or what...
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    Maltese Falcon Tie

    Here's a quick Photoshop job: ...and a smaller one for reference. ...I've saved the .psd, so it can be altered to any color scheme.
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    Maltese Falcon Tie

    If this is a hand tint, it's a VERY good job. Posters show him with a dark tie, as well. Looks like a reddish dark brown with a light brown / gold pattern.
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    It's 1987 & the AF is to reissue the A-2. What would YOU do?

    Fireproofing! In all honesty, it's nice to dream, but the need for a leather garment for flight crews has long passed with the advent of pressurization. The open cockpit and unpressurized flight environments that brought about intermediate jackets such as the A-2 and G-1 or AN-J-3 are long...
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    Will jeans be going out of fashion?

    ...[huh] Maybe to you. I'm not shelling out $40+, and certainly not $100+ for pants I'm going to wear out and throw away when I can get essentially the same thing for $12 from Dickies. The average person can't tell the difference between a $400 pair of jeans and a $12 pair of jeans, and to...
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    Bates Dress/Military Shoes

    USAF standard issue in leather. Those are the optional 'lazy airman's' plastic no-polish version that you buy at clothing sales. They're heavy, clunky, have lousy support, they're HOT in warm weather(I'd imagine they'd be even hotter if they're plastic and don't breathe), and rather awkward...
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    "Rules" for newsboy caps use?

    Rules? We don't need...rules. Use discretion. Match material(not necessarily patterns), color schemes. One of the sharpest looks I've ever seen was on a friend wearing a navy blazer, cream flannel pants, white bucks and a cream linen flat cap(newsboy is a bit of a misnomer). He wouldn't...
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    That Was Him/Her?

    It didn't register until someone told me that was John Turturro as Pete in O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
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    A2's aplenty

    ...anyone ever really take note of the tiny size of the guy second from the right?
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    Bring back old Hollywood!!

    No, sir, you are a modern(e), he is a post-modern. ;)

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