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    A White Sport Coat...

    ...and a pink carnation. What was the genesis for the song? I got a white sport coat for Christmas from my MIL a few years ago and it's been a question that's intrigued me since. The context of the song makes it sound as though this was (perhaps briefly?) an alternative semi-formal trend for...
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    60s Sport Coat Buttons?

    I'm interested to hear if any Loungers have a proper name for the pattern. It's almost-but-not-quite a gun club check. I used to have an almost identical jacket, also purchased from a thrift store, which ended up going right back when I realized how heavy it really was and how little wear I'd...
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    A Lounger Coming to Bookshelves Near You

    Well, ladies and gents, the day has finally come. I've made odd references here and there over the years to my writing aspirations, and occasionally my day-job as a journalist, but the time has finally come: Last year, I sold a novel for publication, and it's now officially in print, available...
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    Shuron Glasses

    They're both nice looking glasses. Really depends on the look you're going for. Ideally you want enough space on the side of your head to be able to pass the blade of a butter knife between your head and the temple (don't go trying this, though!), especially with thicker temples. Wire temples...
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    Shuron Glasses

    They look like they may be too snug on the sides of the head, which may tend to cause headaches in the long run. Can you take a photo with your head slightly tilted down towards the camera so I can see how the temples touch the sides of your head? BTW, they didn't used to include cases-- very...
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    Philosophical: What is real "home(land)"?

    Oklahoma has always held a great deal of sentimentality for me; I've spent more of my life in Missouri and Texas, but the years I spent there (between 10 and 19) were some of the most important of my life and the relationships I formed during that time have been some of the most influential and...
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    That (sometimes) Vintage Smell

    Good grief... have you confirmed that no one died in them?
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    Stafford JC Penney Brand ?

    I think most of the suits and sportscoats in my closet right now are Stafford. I recently bought a very nice linen/cotton blend navy windowpane jacket to wear at a work/leisure event in England, and, considering that I flew in it and essentially lived in it for five days straight, it maintained...
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    War Of The Worlds Hoax

    The Spanish language Dracula ("Drácula") was in fact shot on the same set as the Universal picture. Funnily enough, among die-hard horror fans with an interest in films of the era, the Spanish language version is often considered superior to the Lugosi version. The night crew had the advantage...
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    The Fall of the Moustache

    Round glasses are certainly making a comeback, after years of being stigmatized as "Harry Potter Glasses." I enjoyed the books, but, for someone working in optical, that kid was the bane of my existence when dealing with any super-nearsighted person above the age of ten. I'm glad that there's...
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    The Fall of the Moustache

    Fun fact: These photos were taken by Holly in a photo booth, along with a very young Waylon Jennings. There are other photos from the same "session" depicting Jennings sporting his own pair chunky (sunglass) frames. EDIT: Some days I just don't know what I'm talking about!
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    The Fall of the Moustache

    Unfortunately I learned the hard way that most people see this: Growing up in Oklahoma there were really only two optometrists in our part of town, and my family's happened to cater to an elderly clientele. It never seemed to click with anyone there that middle-aged adults had teenage...
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    Broken Arrow Discovered?

    Discovered it? Hell, I've known where it is for twenty years. I grew up there! :-P
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    This is really fascinating to me as a dilettante of Times Square history. I know that the Playland Arcade was a fixture there throughout the 1970s, predating the ban by at least several years. Was there a particular sort of pinball game that was explicitly banned, or was Playland just yet...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    This may be a regional thing. Pinball machines in "hipster" hangouts are a TREMENDOUS thing in Oklahoma and Texas (at least, the regions of those states that have a hipster population). It's unusual to go into a bar or movie theater that DOESN'T have pinball games and/or early 80s arcade...
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    The Fall of the Moustache

    Now that I think of it, you may be right. Even though he was arrested at a time when mustaches were somewhat of a cultural norm, he received the greatest amount of publicity in the late 80s and early 90s, a good decade after they'd been supplanted by Riker beards and clean-shaven faces. I can...
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    The Fall of the Moustache

    Somehow, at some point, popular perception of the mustache split into two groups: The Tom Selleck 'Stache, and what was known at least in Texas circa the early 2000s as "the molester mustache." (The latter is, apparently, not an isolated term; I won't create any links here but Googling the...
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    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    I think that the current crop of styles was most certainly inspired by Mad Men, but, therein lies the key word. Modern fashion isn't a reproduction of period fashion, it's a modern person's perceptions of period fashion as filtered through the aesthetics and ideals of today. Someone correct me...
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    how many leather jacket should you have?

    +1 To echo SkyTurtle's sentiments, practicality should be a factor. I can easily see myself having several if I lived in a colder environment, and whenever I see a really great leather jacket on television or in a movie, I have to remind myself that I'd be spending a lot of money for very...
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    Green Pants

    Generally speaking forest green is the color represented here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_green However, I've also heard it used interchangeably with hunter green, which IMO is a much more versatile green for mens' clothing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_green#Hunter_green

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