Featured celluloid painted portrait box

Ahh yeah, isnt that what they call the good ole days ?

 

My dad had a similar jacket when he was newly married. I have the home movies of him in it.
He smoked a pipe for a few months and gave it up.

 

I once had an argument with someone who refused to believe women wore trousers in the twenties.

I fished out a photo of my aunt taken in about 1929.

 

I don't mind if people simply don't know certain facts, but if they don't know, they shouldn't insist that those facts aren't true.

 

Yeah Baby ! Ive always wanted one but alas,I was last able to fit in a vintage one around 1992 !

 

My dad got one for high school graduation. He never smoked. I've worn it once or twice - it's black and gold brocade.

She was a saucy one! My grandmother wore overalls for farm work in the 1910s, but that was because she was on top of a hay wagon.

 

Oh, it was quite the thing for the fashionable young London woman of the middle classes. She’d bobbed hair and sailor type trousers, which looked so smart.