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The great outdoors and a T !!

Superb! I like the hanging cloths.

Boy, you can sure tell it was a different era................who wears a bow tie and white shirt while camping these days?

I love it !! The first pic of either a ‘15 or ‘16 roadster camper depicts many innovations. Although the rear kerosene lamp doesn’t have a topmost cover, the food prep tray appears to have been designed to slide in and out from under the homemade truck bed. The top sockets and bows look to be original but top material ties in nicely to camper top. ... Yoder’s grandparents ?

I wonder if the first car is maybe Army surplus

These may have been here before...

George Andreasen wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 7:16 am

Boy, you can sure tell it was a different era................who wears a bow tie and white shirt while camping these days?

George, that's what I encountered when I first got my T. I set out to find out in period newspapers and other photos what people were wearing in the way of casual clothing in the 1920s and basically discovered that they weren't! Men on picnics, in fishing camps, etc. were all wearing coats and ties and the women were all wearing dresses.

Because I didn't always feel like wearing a coat and tie in the summer, I found a style of shirt (apparently called a granddad shirt) that looked like a detachable-collar shirt with the collar detached. I figured that in those days, I might have ended up removing the collar if it was hot. Okay, perhaps cheating, but I decided it was a nice mix of authenticity and comfort.

I think the degree of formality in dress had a lot to do with social class. But people of all classes rarely went hatless, and even a Kansas farmer might sometimes be seen wearing a tie while working in the garden.

Love em, thanks

DLodge wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 2:46 pm

George Andreasen wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 7:16 am

Boy, you can sure tell it was a different era................who wears a bow tie and white shirt while camping these days?

George, that's what I encountered when I first got my T. I set out to find out in period newspapers and other photos what people were wearing in the way of casual clothing in the 1920s and basically discovered that they weren't! Men on picnics, in fishing camps, etc. were all wearing coats and ties and the women were all wearing dresses.

Because I didn't always feel like wearing a coat and tie in the summer, I found a style of shirt (apparently called a granddad shirt) that looked like a detachable-collar shirt with the collar detached. I figured that in those days, I might have ended up removing the collar if it was hot. Okay, perhaps cheating, but I decided it was a nice mix of authenticity and comfort.


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Dick, that's a great looking period outfit! My "other hobby" is antique machine tools and I've seen lots of old shop pictures, where ALL the machinists are wearing white shirts (sleeves rolled up) and ties.....but with a shop apron. After all, a guy has to look spiffy and still have pockets for micrometers, etc.!

I think the subjects of these photos would be amazed at the number of people that are viewing these photos, and scrutinizing every minute detail, 100 years later!

The grandfather of a friend built this on a TT frame in the mid-20’s. Didn’t remember the actual year, but it had to be post-‘23 with the high hood.

Remember back around the turn of the twentieth shirts were still considered underwear so it would be unusual to just be in a shirt. Just a vest over it was common in the summer but also when you see a suit jacket in the summer it was probably a lighter weight fabric and looser weave then is common today. There used to be summer suits and winter suits something that central air and heat has mostly killed off. Although I still have a few seersucker suits

I work for a men’s retailer and we have been lumping shirts in with “furnishings” for over 100 years even when sold motorists clothing and livery for chauffeurs

My grandmother was born in 1910 and was close to her grandfather who fought in the 10th Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. He died when she was a teenager.

One thing she and I had in common was that she spent a lot of time with him and asked him a lot of questions about his life and I did the same with her. My parents had troubles when I was a teenager so I spent a fair portion of my youth living with her. Then, I came back from the military and the Gulf War and enrolled in college and went to see her nearly every weekend in Johnson City, TX. Even as a kid, I was enthralled with history and quizzed her relentlessly about the past and our family. She was a Wills and a cousin to Bob Wills and that was one of the many things I found fascinating to no end.

One of the things I asked her about was what he wore. She said he basically had three sets of the same exact shirt and trousers. The newest and nicest were the ones he wore to church, the second nicest set was the ones he wore daily and the most ragged set he wore for really filthy work. When a new set was purchased, each succeeding pair was pushed down the line.

She said her grandmother followed basically the same practice but with dresses. Her parents were both born in the 1870's and had the same practices for clothing.

The net effect of this, visually, was that they always wore pretty much the same thing. It was just the newness of the clothes that changed based on the situation. Hats were always worn. Coats and ties on men were worn sometimes....sometimes not.