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All Hat: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 12/17/2017 - 10:27pm.
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June 1939. Birney, Montana. "Dude playing a slot machine." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Slot machine
Submitted by Alex on Mon, 12/25/2017 - 4:38pm.
This one, with a different handle unfortunately.
Levi's 501s
Submitted by Angus J on Tue, 12/19/2017 - 1:38am.
I bought my first pair of Levi's button fly jeans at the Union Men's Shop in Windsor, Ontario, in 1965. They cost $5.15 in Canadian dollars then. The day this Shorpy picture was posted I bought a new pair near Seattle, as shown in this photograph, on sale for US $ 39.95. With the inflation calculator and current exchange rate, it works out to CDN $50.00. I have been fortunate to wear the same size 30 inch waist for fifty years. The "shrink-to-fit" 501s still use a heavy rigid denim.
No cattle?
Submitted by Solo on Mon, 12/18/2017 - 12:34pm.
Maybe the livestock are gathered around the baccarat table?
31x34
Submitted by kines on Mon, 12/18/2017 - 8:10am.
Same as me! But they're almost always just even sizes, so it's usually 32 and a belt.
Montana Slim
Submitted by JohnHoward on Mon, 12/18/2017 - 6:35am.
Our photo subject has a 31-inch waist.
Lebowski-esque
Submitted by archfan on Mon, 12/18/2017 - 1:45am.
I thought the LoC was being very casual. It took a while to realize the caption meant dude as in a dude ranch, not as in "duuude."
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