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#1 2008-01-17 22:23:59
- Marc Grayson
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Best-Dressed Man of the Year Spent $125 for Suits, $9 for Shirts
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,772523,00.html
"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde
#2 2008-01-17 22:31:41
- The_Shooman
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Re: Best-Dressed Man of the Year Spent $125 for Suits, $9 for Shirts
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#3 2008-01-17 22:50:24
- Twin Six
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Re: Best-Dressed Man of the Year Spent $125 for Suits, $9 for Shirts
Peter Arno, no less! It was a different age.
#4 2008-01-17 23:11:48
- captainpreppy
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Re: Best-Dressed Man of the Year Spent $125 for Suits, $9 for Shirts
Well, Good Lord, that was 1941! You'd have to multiply those figures by at least 10 (and perhaps more) to get a comparable value in today's dollars.
#5 2008-01-18 01:58:21
- Nemesis
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Re: Best-Dressed Man of the Year Spent $125 for Suits, $9 for Shirts
$125 is now worth about $1800 adjusted for inflation.
Back with a vengeance.
#6 2008-01-18 15:00:15
- oldog/oldtrix
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Re: Best-Dressed Man of the Year Spent $125 for Suits, $9 for Shirts
#7 2008-01-19 06:11:11
- rsmeyer
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Re: Best-Dressed Man of the Year Spent $125 for Suits, $9 for Shirts
Arno, Stewart and Beebe are the 3 whose pictures I have seen, and all are elegant men indeed-in the case of Beebe, in an extravagent manner.So much more elegant than those cited as well-dressed today.
#8 2008-01-19 06:20:16
- Marc Grayson
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Re: Best-Dressed Man of the Year Spent $125 for Suits, $9 for Shirts
"Others who caught the Guild's professional and admiring eye: Glenwood J. Sherrard, president-manager of Boston's Parker House; William Rhinelander Stewart, Manhattan socialite; Lucius Beebe, lush cafe columnist; Dr. Gordon Green, New York physician; Frank L. Andrews, president of the Hotel New Yorker; platinum-haired, oriflammable Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Administrator. McNutt, smiling modestly, also denied that he gave dressing any real thought, declared: "One is rather embarrassed by all this, and I think the less said the better."
Although he obviously would never participate in the fora were he alive today, given his sentiments, I vote that Mr. McNutt be banned from the fora, posthumously, for good measure.
"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde