And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tie bar. (Which both keeps collar points down, and displays the tie knot.) Tie. Matching silk handkerchief. Three piece suit, including waistcoat. Umbrella. Pinkie ring.
This was just Sinatra's everyday travelling-around manner of dress.
If he saw a kid with a nose ring, blue hair, and skinny jeans, he'd have him professionally punched out too.
Cary Grant would have worn a full-brim fedora, and the cuffs would have been French cuffs, with cuff links.
That I've seen in print, Frank had two guys professionally punched out- Buddy Rich and Shecky Green.
ReplyDeleteFrank is wearing a trilby. essentially, a fedora with the brim trimmed down. seems to me that only city dwellers wear trilbys
ReplyDeleteThe hats are only cool because of who's wearing them! If I wore those hats I would look like a dork!
ReplyDeleteIt's not just the hat. It's also:
ReplyDeleteTie bar. (Which both keeps collar points down, and displays the tie knot.)
Tie.
Matching silk handkerchief.
Three piece suit, including waistcoat.
Umbrella.
Pinkie ring.
This was just Sinatra's everyday travelling-around manner of dress.
If he saw a kid with a nose ring, blue hair, and skinny jeans, he'd have him professionally punched out too.
Cary Grant would have worn a full-brim fedora, and the cuffs would have been French cuffs, with cuff links.
And dollars to donuts, Dean's got a hip flask.
We've sunk to a society of slobs.