Ah, thanks Lou.
For those of you who are either sartorially or intelligence-challenged, here are
and
:dubious:
Well If you want to bring back hats, why not push for cool manly hats not wussy little things like fedoras.
Why not try to bring these back in style?
YES! Guys who dress as they did in the first forty years of the 20th century make me dizzy. Whew, is it warm in here?
Wow, cool link, Olentzero. For a Leninist, you’re not so bad. ducks 
Oddly enough, just yesterday I got a St. Clement’s Day card from my hatmaker…no, really! Chap in Ontario who mainly does Fur Trade stuff for Parks Canada, but has done some WWI and WWII Canadian men & women’s hats for us (including an outsize Sergeant-major’s titfer tat for Yours Truly’s freakish cranium).
The only people I know who still wear spats on a regular basis are Scottish regimental pipers, as part of the uniform. The only people I know who still wear ascots are retired university profs and retired artillery officers (and only after 5 oclock, for cocktails, old boy!)
When will canes come back into style?
I’ve ALWAYS wanted to wear a deerstalker hat (you know, the hat that Sherlock Holmes wore).However, my GF will disown me if I do! Anybody know where I can buy one?
Also, those Victorian coats (with the shawl/cape tops-are they obtainable anywhere?
The look like sartorially-challenged leg warmers with buttons to me. Do they do them in luminous pink?
For a Leninist, I’m very very good. Once you go Red you won’t wanna leave the bed.
Or something like that.
Anywho, yeah I like those links. I keep fantasizing about having a summer wardrobe of zoot suits and a winter wardrobe of sack suits. Someday, I suppose…
If one is seeking the real Deerstalker, one must deal in St. James St, London:
How about a Coker, Ralph124c?
And Olentzero, do I sense a joke somewhere about “Trotskyite entryism?”
James Lock & Co.! I still have their brochure from the time I visited them in 1987. Now that was a hat store! Wish I’d been able to afford a bowler back then…
Rodd, I really think I should leave well enough alone on the other subject…
Piffle. I prefer James Smith & Sons for walking sticks, although these days they probably sell more umbrellas than sticks. I would love to have a Smith umbrella – they’re very good quality indeed – but I have a habit of losing them and I’m not buying a £50 umbrella only to leave it on the train.
Well, dantheman, those are indeed chaps. But I have a feeling it’ll be a cold day out on the range before I see a cowpoke wearing pants like those…
I have three fedoras that I wear semi-frequently; and have had a full beard for 27 years. I sincerely hope that neither of these EVER come back in style.
Some of my favorite links:
http://www.victoriantradingco.com
Mostly women’s things, but there are some male accessories.
This site has menswear, though: http://www.premierclothing.com/
I myself have a really cute pair of boots that while lace up, look like the old-fashioned high button shoes of the 1900s. I call them my Gibson Girl boots. They’re brown leather-with a darker leather around the bottom.
Sorry, I may be a leftist, but I’m a Tsarist at heart!
Michael Jackson is known to often wear hats.
:eek:
I’d love to see a resurgence of the long cigarette holders ladies of the 20s and 30s often dangled in their dainty fingers, dahling.
Oddly I am the only person who wears a Panama hat while in Panama.
It is just thing to keep the sun out of my eyes while riding.
Heheh, Enola, those cigarette holders are awesome. If I smoked, I would make a point to use them.
Including the pants pulled up to the nipples? Seriously, apart from that strange concept, I think the 1940s fashions look good on men (and 1920s for the ladies), and I’d like to wear them myself - but it might look a little precious in modern Sydney suburbia. I love those old black and white photos of rush-hour commuters pouring out of railway stations, and it’s just a sea of suits and hats. Very sharp.
I’m a little restricted in that I work a blue-collar job in a warm climate city, so I tend towards the jeans and t-shirt look, rather than the natty mid-century business attire I mentioned above. I do wear a hat (Australian broad-brimmed Akubra-style), but it fell apart from years of loving use, so I’ll have to get another. Unfortunately, I neglected to buy a new one halfway through the career of the old: every Aussie bloke should have two of these hats - a new one that you can wear somewhere decent, and a beloved, moth-eaten old one covered in stains and frayed patches that you can wear to the pub and that you rescue from the rubbish from where your wife has thrown it. I also find the city gals go gaga for these hats 
And yes, I have a full beard. It’s not long, but I don’t trim it as often as I should. When it’s neatly trimmed it looks good, when it’s not it looks okayish, but if I go clean-shaven I don’t look good at all. It’s more about my facial structure than about fashion. I think I will go to my grave with a beard.
I like ascots too, but I’d look silly in one myself.
hey, my dad wear’s em.
and his name is Xavier.
he ain’t French, he’s Belgian.
he’ll be happy to beat anybody up that mistakes him for French, Dutch or German.