Edward
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I used my school metalwork apron when painting my wargames or toy soldiers figures Edward usually using the back of a fingernail as a mixing palet, I often forgot to remove it before school getting odd looks when turning up for school the next day with a single coloured fingernail!!!
Ha! I've never heard of that trick before.... I used to mix my paints on an old bit of cereal packet, which I then kept so that I could match my colours again exactly when I wanted to add a new unit... Not painted for years, but I've got an itch to get back into the hobby again. I've moved on from the more traditional fantasy stuff, though - the big appeal now is Weird War 2 (Secrets of the Third Reich and the likes. Basically WW2 but with zombies, werewolves, and such thrown in....). The 'A Very British Civil War' stuff appeals too.
This character being a mechanic whose face is constantly black with oil, and it being a 1930s British film, his character goes by the name of 'Nigger'.
There are still garages all over Northern Ireland where he'd be called 'Darky'. Similar, eh, lack of sensitivity.
The Goodwood estate added overalls to their merchandise lines a few years ago, in both khaki and white.
http://shop.goodwood.com/products/overall-mens##wh1oqCDZPR2I9DAY.97
http://shop.goodwood.com/products/overalls-adult-white##jEZ3B4twSRza7OqA.97
Some nice details on them. I've been tempted to buy a pair every year I've been at the Revival, but never quite given in. Lovely quality. TBh, I think what has stopped me has been not knowing when I'd actually ever wear them, though I can see them appealing for wearing round the house in the Summer.
That's why, circa 1925, there was a fashion for pinkish hued tennis trousers: people who had played on French clay courts wanted the colour to prevent obvious marks. They then brought the fashion back to the UK, reportedly leading to pinks being a popular colour for Oxford Bags.
The book, the book....
Good photos TT, the studded belt is an interesting item...I'd have said funfair or circus worker but then again given the liking for horse brasses and horse leather work I guess it's a logical thing to happen for a farm labourer to have such a belt.
That, plus it use to be very common in England (at least in the West Country) for Romany gypsies to travel looking for casual agricultural labour, during harvest and at other times of year especially. Not a stretch to see this as an aesthtic that was commonly associated with that community.
funny to think a modern mobile phone probably has more computing power!
Since at least 2001, the average mobile phone has had more computing power than did NASA at the time of the moon landings. It's incredible when you start to think of it like that...
Back to this photo.... I just noticed (as I've been online ordering a greyback this week) that the shirt here is pretty much spot on a greyback pattern, but obviously made for the civilian market, no?
Incidently, I also found these online this week too:
http://www.woodsofshropshire.co.uk/red-stripe-cotton-grandad-shirt-from-magee
Classic, four-button placket, over-the head style. I ordered up a couple; mine arrived this morning. Brushed cotton flannel in a style worn by Irish navvies for generations. I'll report back when I've had a wear of 'em on how they're going. Look great, though. Plan to wear then with a bandana and an old waistcoat...