auction of Neil Armstrong property:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/science/neil-armstrong-auction.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/science/neil-armstrong-auction.html

Apologies if this came up elsewhere but this is one of the best documentaries I have seen and NASA ivy gold https://youtu.be/NgUYurzK-tM

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"Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me!" The word's of the third man to step foot on the moon...

Blanks abound and yet this thread is, I think, packed with interest for anyone thinking of flirting with 'Severe Ivy' (which has an entire thread to itself) or 'US Marine Ivy'.  It takes me back to that slightly iffy book of Hewitt's and his name-check of 'Countdown' with Caan and Duvall from 1967.  I played around with this ultra-square American look in around 2007 and might do so again.  Getting the haircut right is key.  Yes, NASA Ivy, Astronaut Ivy.  Very American.  How could it be otherwise?

Too many blanks for me to follow that one. But No hair for me to play with. So flirting too closely to that is a no go for me. Bald, short sleeve button down and chunky shoes only means one thing to a lot of people over here doesn’t it?
Which is a shame. As I get older I do feel an affinity with the grumpy ex marine, short flat topped grandfathers I see in US films and tv.

The short sleeve button down worn with a tie seemed common in mission control, but it doesn’t make it look any better or less worthy of ridicule. But as Adam Ant said - redicule is nothing to be scared of. If you’re doing that look don’t forget the multiple pens in the shirt pocket.

But some of the styles  worn on Earth by the astronauts were great, particularly in their more casual moments when they were ‘maintaining an even strain’, as it was put in the book The Right Stuff, a great expression that conjures all sorts of possibilities for disreputable behaviour.

Fanciful probably. If the first moon landing was '69, it seems unlikely that British proto skins would have seen very much of astronauts two years previously? Certainly not in any 'off duty' looks.

More likely that look came from a rejection or ignorance of the incoming flower power influence? Which was very much over played by the media then and ever since.

Actually there had been plenty of coverage of US astronauts throughout the early 60s, so we knew what they looked like. And I can state categorically that the styles they wore had a huge influence on a tiny minority of young blokes, certainly here in London, where you could actually buy the clothes fairly easily. (If at a price!)

It's an excellent thing to have older posters here who actually remember that period.  I was still at junior school in '69, two years away from taking my Eleven-Plus (passed), and we watched it in the classroom.  It had a massive impact at the time.
I've been interested in the look since reading about it but that was only in around 2004 or 2005.  I saw 'The Right Stuff' in around 2009 and must now buy the novel. 
Something that sticks with me from childhood are images of crop-haired grunts in Vietnam - in full colour - sometimes wearing rather thick-framed spectacles.  I would have been aware of that war by about 1968; the photographs would have been in the kind of magazines working class parents like mine sometimes had around the house.  I just wish I could remember the name of them - 'Weekend', something like that?  It all came back to me when watching that rather odd film 'Full Metal Jacket'.