Who is your style inspiration?

[highway66blues]

Hello,i'm a 1st timer here.
Been lurkin' 'round a whole lota places here until i saw pinesiw's pics-n-post.
I am where he's at (no,not canada)
I'm a history geek (lotsa dif periods but, the oughts,'20's & '30's where i'm at),so my inspi is the history & the photographic history we have of it.
LOVE the pics,pinesiw

 

[Pinesiw]

Ur first post and u mention me, im flattered. Glad to know im sharing an interest. I love the look of the working man in the 20's 30's and its how I try to look everyday. Tho I do enjoy a three piece with fedora, its just that I dress to suit my lifestyle. Lifestyle of working with my hands as a labourer in the city or a trapper in the wild north. Welcome to the lounge highway66blues

 

[Benny Holiday]

As soon as I saw the Glenn Gould photo Metatron posted I thought of you, Baron, and your appreciation of the ability to throw together a casual look free of care that just looks cool.

An art I have yet to master, I think.

 

[highway66blues]

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You are welcome,sir.
Yeah,just about the same for me,have been "general laborer" in a production job - 2 dif since in gradu'ed HS
...& on top of it, i've been gettin' lost in '20,'30's & '40's country blues music for the past few years (anothr influence)

...wana post a pic...damn thing won't let me though

maybe this'll do it

https://www.flickr.com/photos/96251424@N02/

I keep it simple,as most folks at my same income level at that time(s) i am sure did.
4 or 5 prs trousers, 5 or 6 lg sleeve work shirts, 5 or 6 short sleeve shirts, my St. Vincent de Paul $1 find (1940's Stetson), a brown LL Bean felt fedora & a gray wool plaid 8 pnl flatcap.
All 3 get worn on a reg. basis no matter WHAT i'm doin' (when appropreate,of course).
1 pr boots,1 pr shoes, .....oh, and my braces (i made 'em ma'self).
My ev'ryday wear,Ev'ryday.

 

[esteban68]

Terry Thomas and Mr Toad...**** ****!

 

[oldbear]

If I really had a style, it would be a cross between Indiana Jones in his "field" attire and the classic Brooks Brooks "button down" designs.

 

[scottyrocks]

For casual wear, it's Indiana Jones, although I don't go for 'screen-accuracy' - just the vibe.

For a more polished look, Jimmy Stewart, particularly in this one of a series of shots, is my holy grail.

 

[DamianM]

other then the obvious of the golden era
Photographer walker evans

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

The last one is cool. A stifel print workshirt?

 

[LoveMyHats2]

Not sure if I run for dress after any one person or not, but I can say at times I sort of would feel "Jack the Ripper" may come close to it! lol!

However, seriously, I merely dress as well as I can for the day, what ever is appropriate works for me. I do see many items of attire my fellow loungers are wearing, and it sure does at times "spark" an idea or two.

 

[LoveMyHats2]

For casual wear, it's Indiana Jones, although I don't go for 'screen-accuracy' - just the vibe.

For a more polished look, Jimmy Stewart, particularly in this one of a series of shots, is my holy grail.

Not sure where one could find it, but some where not so long ago was a photograph of Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, and one other male actor from that time period, all dressed out in black tie, standing in a night club together near the bar. They knew how to dress well.

 

[DamianM]

The last one is cool. A stifel print workshirt?

stifel print workshirt with polka dot tie worn with a worn dusty black suit

 

[Edward]

I was thinking more Norman Clegg myself and the fourth and seventh Doctor.
Johnny

I'll always have a soft spot for how Peter Sallis dressed in LOTSW. He'd have been close to the same age as my paternal grandfather who died when I was five. I spent a lot of time with the grandparents on this side as a small child, and Granda Marlowe remains something of an almost-mythic figure. Recently took the wife round some of our haunts back in the old country: the places we walked and sat when Nana M cleared us out for the afternoon while she cooked. The bench we sat o with our homemade rhubarb jam sandwiches in 76/77 is still there. I've since discovered what a sharp dressed he was in his younger days in all the old photos. As an older man, he dressed very much like Norman Clegg.

Peter Sallis very much defined that series for me; he was the everyman, and the only player who, as memory serves, appeared in every episode, as well as in the prequel First of the Summer Wine series, set in the lead up to ww2, in which Sallis played the young Clegg's father.

 

[jchance]

Nick Wooster, David Beckham, Daniel Craig, a bit of Ryan Gosling and Joseph Gordon Levitt. I like their relaxed, deliberate styles.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Rick Blaine in Casablanca. Or Victor Lazlo, for that matter. Their styles are classic. But it’s the whole romantic backstory of fighting the good fight that pulls it all together. Great tailoring plus principled idealism… it’s the start of a beautiful friendship.

 

[Edward]

Rick Blaine in Casablanca. Or Victor Lazlo, for that matter. Their styles are classic. But it’s the whole romantic backstory of fighting the good fight that pulls it all together. Great tailoring plus principled idealism… it’s the start of a beautiful friendship.

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Casablanca is one of those pictures that somehow arises beyond it's simplistic origins as, in effect, a borderline propaganda piece, to become something truly affecting, and timeless. What I never appreciated until I really sat down and watched it as a whole is just how funny it also is. There are a lot of great lines in there. The performances are outstanding, of course - Bogart and Raines especially - though I think the sheer quality of the script really helps. It's also, arguably, of its time in that I don't believe a Hollywood picture aiming for a mainstream audience today would be "allowed" to have the ending it does; some deus ex machina would be lazily thrown in to put them together. A really clever touch imo is how perfectly the ending sets up the situation for the further adventures of Rick Blaine, resistance hero: the act that they never did this lets the viewer's imagination really run with it, and I think adds to the strength of Bogart's character, in much the same way as so many of us have our own imaginations of Doctor Jones' adventures that landed him in the situations we see at the start of each of those films.

 

[Pandemic]

Nothing terribly original or unusual, but these two have stayed with me for many decades of dress

 

[Edward]

Nothing obscure or even rare, but these two have stayed with me for many decades of dress

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Oh, yes! Although significantly outside my period style preference, Travis Bickle remains an influence: my Tanker jacket is a nod to his, quilted burgundy liner and all. (The only thing it lacks is the stencilled 'Bickle T' as I've never quite had the nerve to add it for fear of it gonig horribly wrong... got both the patches, though). It's Bickle is the reason I consider an M65 here and there, though these days I'm leaning more towards a Presley M51....

Jimmy Dean really made that Antifreeze look cool as. Not the obvious jacket, in isolation, for that kind of icon status (compared to a nice leather, say for a start), but it just works. The red *really* pops on screen. I bought a bright red Harrington at a time as a sort of nod to that jacket, but I've long been tempted by something closer the real thing.

 

[Harp]

Casablanca is one of those pictures that somehow arises beyond it's simplistic origins as, in effect, a borderline propaganda piece, to become something truly... and I think adds to the strength of Bogart's character, in much the same way as so many of us have our own imaginations of Doctor Jones' adventures that landed him in the situations we see at the start of each of those films.

Whence a young man, belated Kirkland & Ellis offer, a pinnacle Chicago blue chip law firm, mandated a matchless professional wardrobe more practically found patrician downtown retail tailors. A cut well above plebeian Beverly Hills and Hyde Park consignment shops threadbare academician cater gentlemen rankers searching lower cost second hand Harris tweed jackets, wool pants, and non gelded 1917 trench coats with right shoulder ***** pad, epaulets, belt, and ****** pocketed tradition intact. What I had on hand would last pass a fortnight, possibly two with some imaginative deft hand; however, sooner rather than later, the needle eye would demand thread. Raised impressive salary initial paycheck would cover cost but university plebe me still clung to lectern with both hands.

Decades later, when the evening rail commute home had practical abandon, I was reading Pollock's Spinoza aboard a Chicago Transit Authority bus when a sixteen year old kid politely asked if I thought Maimonides had influenced Spinoza. Sixteen. Some converse followed and discussion sidetracked towards Casablanca; more specifically the choices imposed honor and innate self respect. Whenever around kids, I always try reading and film impress with Shakespearean Branagh and Spielberg Indiana Jones chronicle forefront. Kids are receptive honest candor. Anyway, I've adapted professional and personal wear as circumstance dictated, though Professor Jones' University of Chicago style or Gregory Peck's understated Atticus Finch court elegance have always been my guiding light.

The book to read is Aljean Harmetz' excellent, The Making of Casablanca; Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and World War II.