Not so old (80s?, 3.5" lapels) but wonderful nevertheless, 2 feather light J. Press cotton sacks, one in 'natural' à la G9 and one in a pale olive shade. Like new.

Thanks to H. Logg for sourcing these.

Hey Moose,
When I saw that on ebay a couple of days ago I considered PMing you about it.  Should be nice.  I have a Brooks Wasn n Wear in khaki.

I'm a novice when it comes to suits and coats. I've tried wearing a few odd coats over the years but they were never really to my liking. Not knowing where to look I sort of gave up. I never was in a social or professional environment that called for suits, so I only tried the water at weddings and funerals where I wore my not-quite-there stuff feeling a bit awkward. This forum provided my belated education, and it's only now that I can be very specific about what it is I always wanted in a jacket. I'm basically aping most of you guys now, heh.

Here's my first proper purchase in years, can't wait for it to arrive. I don't know how this make rates, but it's an early 1960s "Vaughns".

Last edited by 1966 (2009-01-24 12:15:48)

Yes it's casualness I'm looking for...

I think we are fishing in the same pond Moose - 38s right?

Lovely jacket.

Somebody please purchase this.
http://cgi.ebay.com/1960s-Vintage-Mens- … 7C294%3A50

It is a Gentry sack suit, in charcoal flannel.  If it were 2 inches larger in the chest, I would would have weaseled it into my ownership already. To small for me, but one of the size 37's or 38's should really jump on this. 
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bandofoutsiders wrote:

Somebody please purchase this.
http://cgi.ebay.com/1960s-Vintage-Mens- … 7C294%3A50

It is a Gentry sack suit, in charcoal flannel.  If it were 2 inches larger in the chest, I would would have weaseled it into my ownership already. To small for me, but one of the size 37's or 38's should really jump on this. 
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Interesting how this stuff is either sold as Trad or Mod.

Russell_Street wrote:

Very Brooksian. Very nice. Wear it in good health, '66.

I've spent my life buying Grey or Brown Herringbone jackets & as Chris_H has observed they really are THE jacket.

... Navy Blue Blazers are meant to be the most wearable, but I'd say pish - The Herringbone Sack really rules The Look!

Yes -- I've got one that I wear almost more than anything else.  I would've thought that it held more appeal to Americans than English since the English have always immersed themselves in the tweeds, eh?  Well, so have New Englanders, but what I'm trying to say, is that the ol' Herringbone has always had a bit of the Anglophile inflected in it -- the ol' collegiate atmosphere, Gothic Spirals, slobbery dogs, "My Club," "Har, Har", etc. etc.  I'd have thought that the tweed was too universal in England to allow for anything approaching "The Look".  Even in jest or irony.  That said, the ol' navy blazer continues to endure for the American male.  Both of these jackets though have transcended their "upper" and "upper middle" and even those who aspire to them roots and might be pretty universal now.  Maybe not though. Maybe this last generation has dressed so fucking poorly, that it'll seem like something new.  Jesus, I'm rambling like ol' Egbert Tom, and I'm not even soused on cheap whiskey.

An envelope arrived yesterday from the USA:

Ahhhhh - Olive Poplin with a Blue/White mini Gingham -

I feel better just for seeing that.  Thanks.

Vintage Bass Weejuns in Brown. Not sure of the year.

Russell_Street wrote:

The Logo with the little shoe came in sometime in the 90's. Anybody got a closer date?

This help?

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f= … 7ltojt.2.1