Hiya

[Charlie Reader]

Wow, thank you all for the warm welcome!

@SinatraStyle: Yeah, FS was the definite hat man to me. Nice to hear I'm not the only "Frankophile" here Are you member of any fan societies or clubs?

As said before, I adore the Fifties in general - suits, ties, print layouts & designs, cars (yup J.M. Stovall, the Thunderbird's fantastic too!). How great are that old movies, Gregory Peck and many others too had much style wearing hats. Anyway, I'd like to live in the mid-50's, best of all in NYC, of course...

But I must say, Regensburg (my home town in Bavaria) ist quite a good place for hat lovers too, mostly because of one of the nowadays very few hat manufacturers ("Hutmacher am Dom") who produces great handmade hats and is famous for them in all of Germany, rather say Europe. If it interests you, here's their homepage: Der Hutmacher am Dom
Sure it wouldn't be as nice as possessing a vintage original - but I'm thinking about letting them reproduce that "Cavanagh Milano" model as a special design. I guess that would be quite expensive though and would cost me a small holiday trip

@Jamespowers: Simply an envy "WOW" about your photo. Hope I go that far some time...!

Kind regards,

Andreas

 

[GentlemanFarmer]

Welcome

Welcome to the Lounge Andreas. We hope you'll feel at home.

 

[SinatraStyle]

"Frankophile"

Andrea,

I like that term. I seriouly doubt that I would be here at the Lounge had it not been for Mr. Sinatra.

This may be fftopic: , but what Sinatra societies/fan clubs do you belong to? I currenlty do not belong to any.

 

[Charlie Reader]

Hi SinatraStlye,

currently I'm only a member of the Deutsche Sinatra Society e.V. (German Sinatra Society). The "German" in the name stands for the language,we include Switzerland and Austria too. I'm also in the "managing committee" there (may sound pompous, in fact I only put our magazine together and do the layout/designs for it). However, it's big fun, and the greatest thing are our member meetings (one big per year, and many many others in-between. It's quite fascinating what different people you get to know among Sinatra fans. Website (umm if it interests you, I hope this doesn't disturb anyone - since we're a completely uncommercial club of course): http://www.deutsche-sinatra-society.de

By the way, everybody's welcome - no matter if she or he speaks German or anything else (we're proud to have some English speaking members too. Tony Bennett and Liza Minnelli are among them, of course they're both honorary members)

Kind regards,

Andreas

 

[Charlie Reader]

postscript

P.S.: This Martini pic of yours is great. Did you make it yourself? (Do you photograph?)
Or do you at least like Martinis?

Kind regards,

Andreas