Stace - Colin has some nice vintage Izods in Uncle Sam's, £13 - £15.

I bought a Pendleton & had a nice chat with him. He'd like to have a bit of a proper meet with you to talk clothes. Fancy it?

jim

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eris wrote:

Some ad porn

The magic three - Arrow, hathaway, Gant the Hugger http://tinyurl.com/yegx3mh
Gant Hugger http://tinyurl.com/yevjcee
Gant http://tinyurl.com/yabb8jd
Gant Hugger "has the best behaved collar around" http://tinyurl.com/y8t44z9
"For men wo want to look trim, slm, and neat" http://tinyurl.com/yaezv3s
"a man-pleasing shirt" (uhm ok...) http://tinyurl.com/yc8qn9q

interesting that the Hugger came up to 16.5 neck only. No american brand could stop there these days!

I love all the weird crap you find in these other adverts in the papers  as well...

Just Jim wrote:

Stace - Colin has some nice vintage Izods in Uncle Sam's, £13 - £15.

I bought a Pendleton & had a nice chat with him. He'd like to have a bit of a proper meet with you to talk clothes. Fancy it?

jim

Sounds good to me, Jim. Been a while since I was in there.

Staceyboy

Ivy accessories. A delivery of Esquire magazine, 1954-56.

There was also Yes Brazil, which was too modern for its own good.  Dockers there had about a dozen hidden pockets in case you were mugged.  You could get RL when I first lived there, but then the pulled out of Brazil. There was also a shoe place, can't remember the name, all the shoes looked great, but they were not comfortable.

My claim to fame was that I stayed in the 'penthouse' room of the Sol Ipanema, just around the corner from the Garota de Ipanema,  over looking the beach, sea and islands for 18 months. I was their longest staying customer, ever.  Also stayed in the Everest and rented an apartment on Prudente de Morais. But the Sol Ipanema was best.

Lacoste was the best place to shop for men's clothes when I was there, jackets and blazers also, all made in Brasil and legitimate high quality stuff. I've still a white shirt here and some polos and even more back at my mum's on the Wirral.  Except she's relocated them to her shed, so reckon they're moldy by now.

I was working on the infamous Barracuda and Caratinga FPSO when I was there, what was your mission?

Ah yes, Mr Cat.  You will be no stranger to the great music of MPB and all the other great stuff, not just Bossa-Nova.  My favourite MTV acoustic session is the Titãs one from 1997, superb.  Managed to catch a few live gigs there, Lulu Santos, Marisa Monte, Titãs, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil on the beach, loads of others as well, Patu Fu and there was that genius DJ who died in the fire in Sao Paul.....And then there was the equivalent of The Smiths, that guy who died of Aids, Legao Urbana, shit, we do indeed go off track now.....

This is me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXo7vRS4XNg

after I found this






Officially broke now.

A good source for all thigns union label: http://www.steelzipper.com/ACWA.html

There was another site listing how the labeling requirements changed over time, e.g. since when care instructions had to be included, since when composition of cloth in percentages etc.

A few great things in Beyond Retro today

Navy flannel sack blazer from the University of California (had the patch on the breast pocket). Three patch/flap pockets and 3/2 roll, two on the cuff, centre vent(not hooked unfortunately) and swelled seams. Wasn't a terrible fit on me, but would have been fairly expensive to have it altered to fit completely right. It was a dead cheap jacket though...

Also, two tweed sacks, both in greeny/yellowy shades, 3/2, two on the cuff and hooked vents. Also one dark checked flannel sack in browns/greys.

After that great 'Soul' post... I HAD to... even if I didn't have the money:

The Thin Repp wrote:

where did you find those yumas?  or are they nettletons?

They're Shell Yumas w/ the imperial logo. Went up on Ebay this morning and I put it on the CC. YES.

^ Nah, I'm 10.5-11.5ish. These are 11s.