Hello guys & girls.

I thought I'd begin a thread to see just how many, if any of you are into vintage clothing and styles?

I'm talking Golden Age here, 30's, 40's, 50's.

I've always been one for the olden days. Yet I'm doing my dating in the internet? Feels kinda weird, I must say.

I want to wear double-breasted pinstripe suits on a daily basis with a good looking Bogart-type Fedora (higher back brim, lower front brim), and a nice wide tie with some nice patent leather shoes, preferably white & black wing-tipped.

Yet I'll sit down and watch Star Trek at night. Strange, huh?

I suppose it just reveals that its easy to take comfort in the past and look forward to the future when present-day kinda seems to linger along with a rotten stench! lol


Any thoughts on the subject of bringing some class back to our everyday wardrobes?

I had thought I was alone, but I stumbled on a forum-community called "The Fedora Lounge" (you can google it). and it seems like this stuff is becoming more popular out on the horizon.

-Pete

Styles come and go. What was old is now new, what was new is now old.
I mean after all how much can you really do with a jacket and tie?

Fashion does jump around quite a bit. The style per-se is more for me, though.

These clothes echo a timelessness for ethics, values, and class. I think a man with a smoking jacket and a cigarette holder says "class" more than anything.

Obviously these are my own ideas, and I'm not trying to put them onto anyone else..

I'm not just into what's current. I've liked this kind of stuff, as far back as I can remember. :) So the idea of it being in-style or not, is a moot point.. (yet a valid one).

eh,I'm still wearing hip huggers from the 70's

Never been a slave to fashion, I'm more interest in comfort..not out to impress anyone.

Style is one thing fashion is another. In referring to style I was talking about cut, colors, shapes. The styles you refer to echo an era, an era that is long gone along with the people that made it what it was. More than the style of clothing being renewed I'd like to see the style of living, the class, the respect for others, the feeling that there was some sort of sense of order to things that I'd like to see renewed.

I'd have to agree with this. (well, some of it.)

All that you mention about the style of living, encompassing the class, the respect, and the feeling of order.. is right down my alley, and I'm all for that.

these clothes.. they Do echo that era. Perhaps I'd like to see the clothes back on more people because they echo those same values you mentioned. Yet, obviously, just because you're taking the talk doesn't mean you're walking it, right?

The disagreement is that it's not as long gone as one might think. I had thought the same until I discovered 20,000 people on a forum trying to outfit theirselves in this fashion. (if that website was more popular, who's to say it might not be 2 million people with the mindset?) And these guys range from 19 to 80.

Tough subject actually, to define whether or not it's completely "lost".

Being from a Sicilian family, and older parents than most of my friends, i grew i grew up band and swing.. sinatra, louis prima, the rat pack.. Dean Martin, etc.


Ive always enjoyed this.. i worked as a stripper and made it burlesque, and wore alot of outfits from that time with long gloves..

gowns, etc.. was alot of fun.

Have you heard of a woman's store called Anthroplogie? They have some nice stuff which is vintage-based.

A girl-friend of mine was showing me their wares and I was impressed. It's hard to find many vintage-based men's stores.

just look at some of their aprons. many echos of the 40s and 50s there.
http://search.anthropologie.com/?q=apron&international=false

I think we should bring back the really vintage clothing

You sir, have lost your mind.

LOL. but that is pretty damn funny.


hheeh


no, I'm more along the lines of...

"Every girl's crazy bout a sharp dressed man"


That's a ZZ-Top reference for the young ones who aren't familiar

Hell Robin, I'd give my right arm to see you dressed like that and I'd give my left arm if you could get paper to dress like that.

I love the fashions of now!!

(shoot me)

I'm a Dolce and Gabana fool!

"Legs" ?

or is it that other one... hmmm

"Sharp Dressed Man"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP2ECZLQSqo

My problem with "now" is that everyone is wearing it. Nothing particularly stands out anymore.

Most of "now" is a dulled down version of "yesterday".

And "now" echos an era of.. well.. nothing really spectacular. the computer age? lol.



That's not to say I'm not one with a pair of Revos or Ray Bans, but I've got some Cazal 955's from 1985 and a pair of Alpina's from the 80s as well. :)

Now being able to walk around with a sword would be the berries.

And those shoes are to die for.

i'd think he's more interested in taking my clothes off, rather than putting them on.

Come on Paper aren't you just a little curious to see him in tights?

So what do you think of any sorts of vintage clothing, Chrissy? I thought I'd ask to prevent this thread from derailing into a personal conversation. ;-)