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Post by siriami on Dec 21, 2012 16:42:55 GMT
Trailer for "UndergrounD" (1928). Due out from BFI on DVD in June 2013!
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rincew1nd
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Post by rincew1nd on Dec 21, 2012 19:43:11 GMT
IMO we should bring back the wearing of hats.
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Post by grahamhewett on Dec 21, 2012 21:49:08 GMT
Why did they employ Michael Gove to read a newspaper in the closing sequence?
GH
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Post by railtechnician on Dec 22, 2012 3:30:17 GMT
IMO we should bring back the wearing of hats. It's rather difficult in this day and age when people have to wear so many at once! I would quite regularly wear as many as three or four simultaneously of the possible seven or eight 'hats' I could wear on night shift. These days being retired I seldom wear more than two and when I do it's because it's cold and two woolly real hats are better than one. When the sun is shining I'm a flat cap wearer now more often than not. If the masses went back to wearing hats I'd expect police and PCSOs to spend their days stopping wearers and asking what's under their hats and expecting to find drugs and weapons! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2012 22:14:38 GMT
I have around 20 hats, most of which I wear for fishing. I'm retired so I wear none for work today. In fact, when I did work I didn't wear a hat (unless a safety one on building sites) as it was thought my customers would think I was taking the pi$$. I also removed my ear-ring. I disagreed with all of this but put up with it as I had to admit the powers that be were probably correct in their assumptions and to be fair I really didn't give a ****!  That film is great! |
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Post by castlebar on Dec 22, 2012 22:24:57 GMT
I remember that until about 1970 one old boy, he must have been about 70/75 then, the last of his generation working in the City, still wore white spats over his shoes. He always got on at the Central Line Bank, and got an Ealing Bdy train.
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Post by metrailway on Dec 22, 2012 23:53:17 GMT
When I used to commute to Aylesbury in the morning a few years back, I would see a man about 40 to 50 years old waiting for a London train at Chalfont & Latimer. He always wore a dark suit and a bowler hat.
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Post by grahamhewett on Dec 23, 2012 11:00:20 GMT
A friend in the MoD, who stared in Whitehall in 1970, tells a story about his about-to-retire permanent secretary, Sir Arthur Drew, whon started his career before the war. As a callow trainee, Drew was summoned to see his perm sec. After a minute or so of silence while the great man continued writing, he looked up at Drew and said: "Yesterday, you were seen in the Park without a hat. This will not occur again."
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castlebar
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Post by castlebar on Dec 23, 2012 11:16:43 GMT
Spats were an "Art Deco" fashion 'must have' and generally disappeared with the 1939/45 war.
However, bowler hats were a very common sight in the 60s, particularly for bank staff above a certain grade, but seemed to disappear with the great stockmarket crash 1972/73 when a different 'generation' retired. Headgear was an indication of class and status until the mid 60s
When a fashion changes, it is sudden, even with men. Look how quickly ties are disappearing and becoming a rarity.
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