Tuesday 5 October 2010
Friday 16 April 2010
Landum Vintage Cufflinks at a very friendly price.
Landum Vintage Cufflinks at a very friendly price
cufflinks espouse centuries through various designs: from the art deco in the 30's to the extravagant and eccentric in 1960 among the Hollywood stars.
The most expensive pair of cufflinks ever sold were a pair given to the soon-to-be King Edward VIII by his later wife Wallis Simpson. These featured diamonds set in platinum and sold at auction for $440.000
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Silk Toppers
The first silk top hats were made in Paris. The hat was introduced to London in the 1790's by John Hetherington. Silk top hats are no longer made in silk they are made of fur felt a technique that is older than the silk. The only machine that produced the silk nap, belonged to a family in Paris. It is said that the machine was dismantled over a family argument in the late 50's and the last hat was made in mid 60's.
Monday 15 March 2010
"Cock your hat - angles are attitudes. "- Frank Sinatra
Wednesday 10 March 2010
The Bowler Hat
“If you want to get ahead...”
Seen today as an eccentric choice, the Bowler hat was designed by Lock's of St James sold in 1850, at a cost of 12 shillings. It was the hard hat of its day, a supremely practical item of headgear for working men of all classes, first designed to be worn by gamekeepers patrolling the estates of the landed gentry. Over the course of the last century, the bowler came largely to be associated in the public mind with City gents, but it has made some surprising appearances elsewhere, from Liza Minnelli's in the film Cabaret to the heads of tribeswomen in South America. Nowadays the black bowler hat is very popular amongst officers who wear then for memorial parades.
By Ze Landum