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Archival Lawn Tennis: Wimbledon 1938
Budge Moody And a related, floral tribute to King Gustav:
Shopping from John Ford: Neckerchiefs
Directed by John Ford (Bogdanovich 1971) Visual addendum: Ford Home Furnishings Ford x Bogdanovich For practical purposes, I’ve been wearing and carrying kerchiefs on longer, hot weather brevets (one for the neck, one for the handlebar bag).
Arnys Gent
I first bonded with friend J. by way of his Arnys jacket (it was a corduroy Forestiere, I believe). Here’s a photo of J. in a different model Arnys jacket. In Eugene (or Portland for that matter), one doesn’t see many men wearing tweed jackets, let alone lovely French-made iterations with shawl collars, mustard color …
Shopping from the Past: Simpsons Fall/Winter 1918-1919 Catalog
Images from this fine flickr archive of vintage US mail order catalogs.
Archival Gent: Elocutionary Manual Man
Archival Gent: (early era) Michael Jackson
I didn’t see this coming but I’ve become a bit of a come-lately fan of Michael Jackson (the early years). It started out with a larky screening of the video retrospective, History Volume I. Now, a week later, I find myself checking out the VHS copy of “The Making of Thriller” and including “Wanna be …
More Pictographic Gents: George Hearn and Aspen Man
On the tail of a disappointing Johnny Depp/Sweeney Toddy, ST and I are revisiting the original source material, the 1982 Showtime production featuring Angela Lansbury and the amazing George Hearn as Benjamin Barker, alias Sweeney Todd. By way of Sweeney, we’re now moving on to a full blown George Hearn fan spree (though I love …
From the Archives: More Pictographic Gentlemen
Dr. Ralph McFarland Don Draper, Creative Director
Out of the Past: A Dover Pictorgraphic Gent
Last week, I met a fellow who appeared to have stepped directly out of the pages of the Dover Pictorial Archive of Men. This living lithograph–code name DJ–was in town to deliver a lecture on the scanning efforts of an enviable archive in a foreign land. Friend RG took a series of photographs of DJ’s …