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To: Little Bill
To get truly into the times you cannot bathe more than once a week, oil your hair, and wear fou-fou juice to improve your presence.

I can't say I carry it that far (and in my case, I'd have to oil the hair on my back)- and I believe spats and the suits would be the only items we've discussed that would date back to those times. Saddle oxfords were a shoe of the 1950s and early 60s, and white bucks a shoe of the 1950s. Saddle oxfords have never died out for (a) private school girls and (b) golfers (although they are often black on black, or brown on tan).

As for white linen suits, I don't know that you can be a lawyer in New Orleans or Jackson and not own one. During a Jos. A. Bank sale when you could add on "any" Signature suit for $99 after purchasing another suit (also on sale), I had my salesman call a New Orleans store and order a white linen suit.

JAB doesn't advertise them, but they sell them in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Jackson (MS), and a few other locations.

For $99, you don't have to wear it often (I also purchased a white on white seersucker suit), and with white bucks, it's a great summertime suit here in Atlanta.

And the compliments outweigh the costs of dry-cleaning.

Add some over-the-calf argyle socks (available from golf stores that sell knickers) - or powder blue or pink socks (again, golf stores) with a matching tie.

And the argyle socks go great with khakis and the saddle oxfords.

144 posted on 09/07/2010 6:02:02 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
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To: Scoutmaster
I know what you mean about the White suits. I was in Brunswick, Ga about ten years ago, it was hotter than the Seventh Bolga of Hell. The was a guy in front of me in line for my morning caffeine fix, looked exactly like Boss Hogg. A Judge I found out Later, dressed exactly like that.

I loved to talk to my Grandparents about the old days before WW1, I learned that people did wear saddle shoes in those days, patent leather, and what a hooker cost in Saskatoon in 1910.

147 posted on 09/07/2010 11:56:05 AM PDT by Little Bill (`-)
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