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  1. J

    My new old Stetson

    Here is a photo of me in my Stetson silverbelly "Open Road" set up as a fedora, center dent, pinched. Maybe 1950's - I haven't determined the date yet. Open crown, nice soft felt. Originally sold by Joske's of Texas, which was still in business when I last lived there, but I believe is gone...
  2. J

    The Big Christmas Can of Worms

    Christmas is the next to last latecomer, I'm afraid (with Kwanzaa as the latest addition). Early Christians just weren't concerned with celebrating the birth of Christ until they decided it might be a while before the second coming, got made official by Constantine, and figured attaching...
  3. J

    Mobster in the trunk

    Same thing happened to my Uncle Peck Capelli. The car Uncle Peck was found in was his. A really fancy big black Packard. Wish I still had it! Peck was a driver for one of the NY "families." Of course, in the Golden Era, nobody talked, so the whole story of Uncle Peck's demise never did come out...
  4. J

    Detachable collar questions

    Among the things I inherited from my father-in-law were several collars of various shapes, all white, except for the following (click for a larger display): Inside the collar it says, "Town Club Collar." So I was wondering whether this collar was intended to be worn on a white shirt, a blue...
  5. J

    San Francisco voters BAN HANDGUNS

    Well, one could argue for days without resolution on the smaller points. For example, when people are "operating" guns, there does tend to be a need for government supplied infrastructure - police to investigate the crime and apprehend the suspect, prosecutors to obtain a conviction, and prisons...
  7. J

    San Francisco voters BAN HANDGUNS

    What generation would that be then? In my family, nobody has been raised around guns since the 1880's. Except for Uncle Peck, who did certain jobs for certain families in NY and NJ, and unfortunately ended up dead and stuffed in the trunk of his fancy car. I dare say my family's experience is...
  8. J

    San Francisco voters BAN HANDGUNS

    Not the best of counter arguments. After all, all states require licenses and insurance for cars. Many states also require frequent inspections of your car, and annual taxes to own one. Gun owners would go ballistic (forgive the pun) over any of those measures for guns. Even the minimal...
  9. J

    San Francisco voters BAN HANDGUNS

    Well, in my state we still hand down life terms in prison and the death penalty. In most other states, too, I believe. In fact, our prisons are full to bursting with quite a few people who have turned weapons against their fellow humans. It would be hard to muster convincing evidence that we are...
  10. J

    San Francisco voters BAN HANDGUNS

    I'm not sure that characterization is entirely fair. What you are really saying, I presume, is you want to make it easy for the just to kill the unjust (I cannot imagine that you would like to make it easier for the criminal to kill), but I think all that we have accomplished so far is to make...
  11. J

    One more hat

    I just found this old shot of me in my beaver top hat - an old Filene's hat from Boston, here paired with a frock coat, though it looks pretty good with tails, too. I've since had it restored a bit. Replaced the ribbon. Yes, I was much younger then. Better not to mention it.
  13. J

    Two of my hats

    WARNING! The following pictures may offend somebody! My Homburg (complete with tie and pocket square): http://img500.imageshack.us/img500/8771/10002605va.jpg My Borsalino "Colombo" (sorry, dressed casually, even wearing (gasp!) blue jeans, view at your own risk)...
  14. J

    dressed down , the trend in the 21st century

    Red herring? Pardon me? Behold: QED :)
  15. J

    dressed down , the trend in the 21st century

    Yes, I think we are in danger of making far too great a connection between casual dress and morals or values. As I said, lighten up!
  16. J

    dressed down , the trend in the 21st century

    Hmm, I thought we were talking about portraits of children in casual attire or surroundings, not portraits of children dressed as slobs. And unless those portraits are being displayed in a gallery or on a billboard or in some other public way, I think they are private, not public, and so not...
  17. J

    dressed down , the trend in the 21st century

    And precisely how many average youths do you know to make such a sweeping generalization? Seems to me quite a few average youths enter the armed services and do well enough. Over 2000 mostly (I would guess, in the absence of evidence that the armed services have especially high academic or other...
  19. J

    dressed down , the trend in the 21st century

    Surely a portrait of a child is a matter between the child and the parent. Mine 40 or 50 years ago certainly were. I appeared as my parents had me appear, as they wanted to remember me, dressed for the season or the occasion, or just the way they thought I looked cute. It has nothing to do with...
  20. J

    Color photos, 1930's and 40's

    You might want to check out the online exhibition from the Library of Congress of color photos from the 1930's and 1940's at http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/glory-exhibit.html. I think the book from which they come (Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-43 ) has been mentioned here...
  21. J

    Borsalino "Colombo"

    I thought I would post here the results of some correspondence I had recently, with the help of Riccardo, who also posts here from time to time, I believe, regarding a recently acquired Boraslino "Colombo" hat, the one with the picture of the sailing ship in the lining of the crown. I first...
  22. J

    "Violent Extremism"

    I have never been introduced to the Platonic ideal TRUTH. Perhaps you have. But I have been told that even God cannot scratch the Platonic ideal of DOG behind its Platonic ideal EARS. We all must approach truth as mortals do, by approximation, through the filter of our senses and intellect. Even...
  23. J

    "Violent Extremism"

    I am certainly liberal, in the sense that I hold opinions suitable for a free citizen, and do not see things through the eyes of slave, of a serf, or of a blind follower of any sect or political party, but feel obliged to think things through for myself, discover what information I can, and...

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