LAKOTA169 Posted January 27, 2009 Report Posted January 27, 2009 Don, Be sure you post a pic of you in pegged pants. I dont think any of us want to miss that one.Bill Like this? '30's and '40's Zoot Suit. Quote
Niel Hoback Posted January 27, 2009 Report Posted January 27, 2009 When I mentioned this topic to my wife, she said "go get your wedding suit out of the closet". Its white wool and was new in 1956. Spose I should get a picture of it, because there's no way I can get into it. Quote
Dennis Hemingway Posted January 27, 2009 Report Posted January 27, 2009 Yeah....Western wear is my favorite (notice the horn in my grill:D )Here's a snapshot my brother took of me in some of my original 30's western wear at his place in Rogersville, MO. ...heh Gorgeous part of the world! I just gave our grandson a shirt like that. It srunk in size, (the wife said that I grew out of it.) Dennis:D Quote
Suddensix Posted January 27, 2009 Report Posted January 27, 2009 Like this? '30's and '40's Zoot Suit. That is one coooool suit man. Reminds me of a book of "Bop Fables" I have somewhere. "Once upon a time in the land of Oo Bop She Bam There lived a crazy little chick named Goldilocks, One day Goldy's mother said "you can sit the next set out in the back yard if you promise not to goof off and get lost". And that's all I can remember. Got to look for that book. Quote
RobertKB Posted January 27, 2009 Report Posted January 27, 2009 Reminds me of the movie "Dick Tracy". Quote
BobT-47P15 Posted January 27, 2009 Report Posted January 27, 2009 wikipedia says zoot suit was found in the 30s and 40s..... link to an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_suit Quote
TodFitch Posted January 27, 2009 Report Posted January 27, 2009 wikipedia says zoot suit was found in the 30s and 40s.....link to an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_suit But I don't think it was ever mainstream. Outside of some Jazz musicians and the LA barrios I doubt that you would have ever seen it on the street. Quote
Don Coatney Posted January 27, 2009 Report Posted January 27, 2009 Don, Be sure you post a pic of you in pegged pants. I dont think any of us want to miss that one.Bill The top picture is me in pegged pants taken in 1961 or 2. Sorry for the poor quality picture. Second picture was taken about 1957. Next picture is me hitting on a chic in the early 50's. Sorry but I forgot the details of this encounter but as a true gentelman I cannot share them anyway......... Quote
BobT-47P15 Posted January 28, 2009 Report Posted January 28, 2009 That last picture looks like a litterbug had struck...... Quote
Don Coatney Posted January 28, 2009 Report Posted January 28, 2009 That last picture looks like a litterbug had struck...... Naw; We had just got it on:D Quote
Reg Evans Posted January 28, 2009 Report Posted January 28, 2009 Pegged pants ? Here's me 43 years ago (1966) wearing pegged stretchy jeans. I'm sure glad that fad died out !!! Quote
Fluid drive Posted January 28, 2009 Report Posted January 28, 2009 So many of these pictures make me homesick - like the one of Lakota's parents in '37 . How come no one has a button down bill wool cap on? Everyone wore those when I was young from the service men on the lines in the Chrysler factory to paperboys on the street corners and when you don a fedora hat PLEASE turn the brim down over one eye! Back in the 30's if you were seen wearing a fedora like some of you boys here everyone would have thought you were a banker. As I remember those zuit suits came in on a very limited basis mainly in the 40's . Guys on street corners that used to whistle at the gals walking by and were called wolves wore those things mostly - like the old Bugs Bunny cartoon. Everyone wanted a sharp crease in their dress trousers back then so we used to put them in between two boards under the mattress at night. I miss the gals looks from the '30s. Jeannie Harlow killed herself in '37( I think she was maried to William Powell then) and an even better lookin gal Thelma Todd died around 1935. If you admired a woman then you didn't have to worry about tatoos ( except for Lydia the tatooed lady!) and metal piercings. My theory is that these big gals with the rings in their noses have them there to keep them from rooting up the yard. Quote
norrism1 Posted January 28, 2009 Report Posted January 28, 2009 You could always make your own too! http://www.evadress.com/40s-01.html Quote
Fluid drive Posted January 28, 2009 Report Posted January 28, 2009 Lakota ! Thank you for being so perceptive. I didn't think anyone would know who Lydia was. (Let alone Julius Marx! ) Evan Quote
LAKOTA169 Posted January 28, 2009 Report Posted January 28, 2009 Lakota ! Thank you for being so perceptive. I didn't think anyone would know who Lydia was. (Let alone Julius Marx! ) Evan I once shot an elephant in my underwear.......how he got in my underwear, I'll never know. Quote
Jim Saraceno Posted January 28, 2009 Report Posted January 28, 2009 I once shot an elephant in my underwear.......how he got in my underwear, I'll never know. I used to go hunting for elephant in Africa but the tusks were too tight, so I moved to Alabama where the Tuscaloosa! Quote
Jim Clark Posted January 28, 2009 Report Posted January 28, 2009 Picture is of my wife's grandparents. Don't know what kind of car is in the background. Must have been from the 30's. That is how people dressed in rural Georgia back then. My 48 dodge with recent addition of Skirts and Sun Visor. I check out the forum every day and really enjoy it. thanks to all of you. Quote
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