What are you wearing today??

[chanteuseCarey]

Great outfit Gijoe...

love the sweater on you!

3 Weeks ago i wear heavy wool, and now the spring is here !!

-Linen Cap
- Allan-A knitted Sport Shirt
- Officers Tropical worstet Trousers
- 1960s wihte Buckskin Shoes

 

[Spitfire]

Enjoying spring in Stuttgart couple of days ago...

Italian shirt and silk cravat - also from Italy. Dom. cigar (Avo) British coat. (And pin )
Sunglasses: RAF pilot sunglasses 1943.

 

[PSK123]

Ahhhh some wonderfully put together outfits as always ladies and gentlemen.

Must say as well, Will; thats a damned fine suit! You look great!

 

[Mary]

Great hair! You look so good in it!

I'm curious about the badge. It's been forever since I saw one. I associate badges with popmusic from the sixties up until today. Or are they part of other scenes. Do you know when they started to wear them?

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[Dinerman]

Yesterday.

 

[Mary]

You're such a handsome man. This is just beautiful! I love to see when someone uses one's whole potential. It touches my heart.

 

[Luke 42]

Great hair! You look so good in it!

I'm curious about the badge. It's been forever since I saw one. I associate badges with popmusic from the sixties up until today. Or are they part of other scenes. Do you know when they started to wear them?

Thank you very much There is actually a close-up over in the hair-do thread, if somebody's interested
I see badges pretty much actually, mostly on alternative/rock/whatever or mod types. But they're are widely spread in many so-called subcultures, I think. I've certainly seen more than one rock'n'roller with buttons/badges on their jackets.
As far as I know, those little badges have been around since at least the thirties (there is a thread on the lounge about them), often they were used in political campaigns.

By the way, that particular badge shows a cowgirl-pin-up

 

[Mary]

Thank you very much There is actually a close-up over in the hair-do thread, if somebody's interested
I see badges pretty much actually, mostly on alternative/rock/whatever or mod types. But they're are widely spread in many so-called subcultures, I think. I've certainly seen more than one rock'n'roller with buttons/badges on their jackets.
As far as I know, those little badges have been around since at least the thirties (there is a thread on the lounge about them), often they were used in political campaigns.

By the way, that particular badge shows a cowgirl-pin-up

The thirties.. But then the must have been mostly political. I've never seen any badges with any popular artist from the forties. The idea makes me laugh. I must know more, I'll try to find that thread. (If you know where it is please link to it.)

 

[bburtner@moran]

To Lazy

I do not care for digital pictiure`s and do not own a digital camera,I shoot B&W and develop my own work.But if anyone has a vivid imagination imagine this: Levis,cord shirt,dealer boots,old 55j14 flight jacket,ratty old ball cap.I work in an office at a shipyard on Staten Island,I dont have the time or need to get fopped up!

 

[PSK123]

You're such a handsome man. This is just beautiful! I love to see when someone uses one's whole potential. It touches my heart.

And you have touched mine, Mary. Thank you ever so much, I really can't describe the shade of rouge I might have just turned

 

[Darhling]

Casual day, wearing my new favorite dress, very 40s with super square shoulders and hidden pockets. Perfect for baking cakes and muffins!

I wore a red bow in my hair and my red satin peep toe shoes with it, looks perfect in my white kitchen

 

[avedwards]

Pip, you really do pull off that brown suit well. It's reassuring that I'm not the only vintage dresser in the UK (I feel like I am sometimes).

But I have one question, why don't you wear a hat with it? It looks fine as it is, a hat might just add an unusual touch.

 

[PSK123]

Pip, you really do pull off that brown suit well. It's reassuring that I'm not the only vintage dresser in the UK (I feel like I am sometimes).

But I have one question, why don't you wear a hat with it? It looks fine as it is, a hat might just add an unusual touch.

Aha thank you very much!

It's a good question really, but hatless was more than common for those of my background and age during the time. I'm a student and from studying the various photo archives of UK organisations, this does seem very prevalent during the period of my particular interest. Whilst hats were very common and exceedingly popular, it's an all too common misconception to think that absolutely everybody wore them all the time.

I do wear hats from time to time though, just when the mood and weather calls for it, for me anyway. Apologies if any of the above sounded a little snobbish, far from what I intend to sound like but the internet has a way of distorting the intended tone

 

[Slim Portly]

I had to go in for surgery today, and the doctors and nurses were wonderful. The let me keep my hat on until the last minute and then they let me put it right back on as soon as the procedure was over.

And so today: surgical gown, blue socks with textured soles, and my brown Dobbs Fifth Avenue.

 

["Skeet" McD]

I had to go in for surgery today, and the doctors and nurses were wonderful. The let me keep my hat on until the last minute and then they let me put it right back on as soon as the procedure was over.

And so today: surgical gown, blue socks with textured soles, and my brown Dobbs Fifth Avenue.

SP, I have to say: if you can look composed and stylish lying on a gurney....you can do it anywhere. Good on you, as the Irish say.

Best wishes for a quick recovery!
"Skeet"

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

Wow, Slim. Speedy recovery to you.

 

["Skeet" McD]

The thirties.. But then the must have been mostly political. I've never seen any badges with any popular artist from the forties. The idea makes me laugh. I must know more, I'll try to find that thread. (If you know where it is please link to it.)

Dear Mary, they go back further than that; I have some from the first decade of the 20th century, very much the same construction (the way the spring pin is shaped tends, in my experience, to be different). They were certainly used politically, but not exclusively: there were religious buttons (given out at sunday schools, for instance); monthly buttons you wore to board streetcars; so-called "motto" buttons that usually carried some catch phrase (particularly in the 20s); and--although the earliest ones are constructed differently--even photo buttons, with a cheap ferrotype in them, so you could wear your girlfriend's picture on your lapel....

Here's a monomaniac's page on a subcategory of the "motto" buttons...he lays out some general history along the way which I (at least) find believable:
http://www.enolagaia.com/ImTheGuy.html#Features

I don't remember seeing any early buttons connected with musicians...but I'd bet you dollars to doughnuts they are out there....

"Skeet"

 

[Spitfire]

CPH Airport. Enroute to Stuttgart.

 

[Hal]

...but hatless was more than common for those of my background and age during the time...this does seem very prevalent during the period of my particular interest...hats were very common and exceedingly popular...an all too common misconception to think that absolutely everybody wore them all the time.

Undoubtedly true, for the UK at any rate. Many young men had discarded the hat before the 2nd world war and by the mid-1950s hats were very much in decline - I never saw my father (died 1962) wear one, though my grandfather did - and believe that few born after 1930 were brought up to wear one.
As you say, wear the hat according to weather and mood, for practical reasons such as cold and wet (i.e. with overcoat or raincoat) or sun-protection. You'll likely attract fewer silly comments and (if this is a problem)feel less self-conscious.

 

[lolly_loisides]

Darhling - I love that dress! Where did you get it from?
Slim Portly - You are the sharpest looking invalid I have ever seen!
and
Spitfire - Very nice indeed - I'll bet you were the best dressed man at the airport.