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Great info. Thanks, BB. His CV is something else.
Never judge a book by its cover, right? I mean Rick Moranis as stone cold bad-ass...?
It's true. I was a carpenter for a while and went through trade school in Boston MA with a guy who'd just gotten out of the 10th SFG as a Staff Sergeant medic... he looked like your typical late-20s hipster, wore Toms shoes and flannel shirts and trendy glasses... He'd lost some weight in a rock-climbing accident he'd had to recover from, he used to be 200+lbs but even at that I don't think you'd have been able to pick him out of a lineup as a Green Beret. It's always the quiet ones
I have been watching Stranger things this weekend.
Very interesting wardrobe, Lots of Corduroy,OCBDs,Shearling jackets, Harringtons,rugby shirts etc.
Ahhh..Mrs Bop suggested this last night...we ended up watching Fawlty Towers, I'll give it a go tonight
Starting to get chilly in the mornings and evenings here in upstate NY... Not 70s prep to the letter but here's WIWT:
Red Patagonia snap-T w/ bright blue accents
Bean blue/white uni stripe ocbd
Land's End traditional fit cuffed chinos, very slightly highwater
Scuffed-up boat shoes
I'm from Maine so of course the belt is a Belted Cow leather tab belt, navy blue with Jeep Wagoneers and Range Rovers
Also rewatched Risky Business recently... Tom Cruise's look is A+ throughout, he even pulls off the letterman jacket... Jeans to chinos to blazer and repp tie... He got me looking at the repro Ni*ke Cortez, it's at the top of my list now...
I always end up back on this thread... For a New Englander it's like coming home...
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Stan, plain front wide-wale cords are my jam... Finally found some from LE, all you normally see is pleated... I do have Bean's pleated wide wales I got for about $20 on the clearance racks at the Freeport factory store years ago... Can't stand to wear 'em, can't stand to give 'em away...
Your lists are always the best... endless ideas...
Moose, just read that profile the other day... Dude sounds like a nut, albeit the kind of nut we need more of...
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/\ haha maybe fifteen years ago it might have fit you kid! no offense
20 years later I was getting good wear out of it, it had turned into this vintage thing ... ever have people try to buy your clothes from you as you were wearing them? like, can I buy those sneakers from you (some great N!ke Son of Lava Domes from '89)???
once I was in this thrift store buying some '70s iron-on transfers ... wearing this gray herringbone tweed fly-front made in New York topcoat from 1957 that I bought from Keezer in '82, fabric was untouched, I took the old lining out and gave it a beautiful new half-lining, dude in the thrift store surrounded by funky old coats has to try to bust a move to try to get that coat ....
the beautiful relining job done by the King made it impossible for me to deal it away though .......
ended up buying a few iron-on transfers which I had put onto shirts and gave away as presents ........
honestly if I thought that old ski jacket from '77 or '78 would fit you I'd gladly give it to ya Leer ......
occasionally I've referred to my archive boxes, they're very good references and they help me keep a lot of details fresh ... my thought is that all of it will fit me again when I'm old ...
I kept the old gear going by having it patched, turned collars and cuffs, turned long-sleeved shirts into short-sleeved shirts, turned destroyed khakis into great shorts, tapered the legs of Bean khakis, you could make a sail out of the excess fabric, had shoes and moccasins and even sneakers resoled, Bean duffles patched and re-zippered ......
through the '80s and '90s I'd customize most of my ski jackets and parkas and zip hoodies and such, take them to a great Jamaican woman who could repair and trick out outdoor gear and had a business downtown fixing ski jackets, sleeping bags, tents, down jackets, backpacks, duffel bags, camping equipment ......
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^ its good Bop. Maybe the key to wearing red trousers is wearing them with stuff like that.
I checked O'Connels, under the illusion I could afford them...they dont quite do the shade..what I did realise though is that if I lived in the States I would move to Buffalo
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When did the woolrich take on the 60/40 come into being?