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Fashion Forecast - Riding Fig. 1- Wearing informal kit, white riding jacket of salt sack, tanbark cavalry twill breeches, canvas buttoned puttees, black blucher riding shoes, blue silk and wool hunting shirt, white gum twill ratcatcher stock with blue spots, brown and black check one-piece top cap. White salt sack is a favorite of horsey society at Virginia. Well-dressed men both here and abroad have taken to black boots and riding shoes because of the popularity of brown with stable boys and grooms. Fig. 2- Wearing Lovat cheviot riding coat, tan bedford cord jodhpur breeches, brown calf jodhpur boots, coral...

Golf Figure 1- Wearing brown shetland, semi-norfolk notch lapel jacket with belt all around loose from the vertical pockets, side bellows pockets with buttoned flaps and two vertical pockets at top. Buttons can be either leather or horn. With thi sjacket, short brown Harris tweed knickers with overplaid, solid color brown ribbed hose with white tops, garter tabs, brown full brogue shoes with overlapping tongues, dark blue cotton flannel shirt with the new 2 3/8" collar pinned, India print madras tie. The jacket that this figure is wearing is the one that is so popular at Princeton. The back has...

Written by Tony Sylvester  While very little is known of American glass plate photographer Mike Disfarmer besides basic biographical facts, his legacy as a de facto social documentor of early 20th century rural life in the American South is colossal. 

Written by Cassandra Harada Our knitter, Cassandra Harada shares her experience of every wool farmer’s favorite day of the year, shearing day on her family farm in Warsaw, Illinois.