Last edited by Leer R. (2013-07-30 02:12:31)

^The raw silk? Looks most excellent.

Last edited by Oliver (2013-07-30 10:44:44)

Thanks, I think I'm going to taper the trousers up a quarter inch. You can't really tell from the photo, but those are the best weejuns I've ever owned. I think they're late '50s or very early '60s; ultra soft and durable "real leather".

Last edited by Oliver (2013-07-31 10:27:16)

It's about a 2 hour drive from the city, through the scenic Hudson Valley, with lots of old sleepy New England towns to stop in en route. My wife lived in NYC for several years, got her masters at NYU and worked for the UN, but had never been upstate before so I took her on the historic tour from Nyack to Sleepy Hollyw and Tarrytown (visited the old cemetery where Washington Irving's buried) and on to Stony Point, Bear Mountain State Park (Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues), Monroe, Goshen, Washingtonville, etc. We stopped off at the oldest winery in the country and continued following the Hudson River on to Kingston, Rhinebeck and Hyde Park. Rhinebeck is a really pretty town; the oldest inn in America is found there. Hyde Park has the Roosevelt Nat'l Historic Site and Vanderbilt's Mansion, etc. We eventually cut all the way north to Massacheussetts (after a week at the Mohonk Mountain House) and spent a few nights in Stockbridge, historic home of Norman Rockwell and the town looks as though it's been torn straight from the pages of The Saturday Evening Post. We trucked up to Vermont for a weekend in Stowe, then back to New York State for a few nights in Saratoga Springs, which is a lovely historic Victorian era town with plenty of culture (New York Ballet and Opera in the off-season) museums, parks, famous hot springs used by the Iroquois for centuries and the oldest running race track in America. For Small Town U.S.A. it's a really interesting place. Lots of impressive architecture, Victorian Mansions, old cocktail bars and a summer escape for many New Yorkers. It was a really nice getaway!