Monday, March 12, 2012

My you're a handsome devil. What's your name?

With our trip to Vegas fast approaching, Daddy-O made a few new shirt purchases.  He tends to gravitate toward Hawaiian and bowling shirts.  Although we love vintage shirts, they tend to be difficult to come by in the proper size and the price can be downright frightening!

One of his favorite shopping spots is Daddy-O's  (no relation, of course)!  Here are some favorites from his collection.

This shirt celebrates the iconic Sun Records Company.  This is where Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison got their start.  Read more about the history of Sun Records here.

 A classic bowling shirt and the only one in Daddy-O's collection that has his true name on it!  You may not know this, but we are total bowling geeks.  I think it may have something to do with really long winters here.  You would think we would be much better at it but we are just there to have fun.
Ahhhhh....the Leopard shirt!  The best thing about this shirt, besides being my favorite color, it that the print panels are fuzzy!  Just like a plush toy...there is just something a little wrong with that.  How many beanie babies gave their lives to make that shirt!



Front-4 pocket

This hot little number was requested by Handsome Devil #1
Back- 4 pocket
Bombs Away!  Reminiscent of the classic nose art on WWII era planes.








The above shirts are vintage to some degree.  The orange shirt is from the 50's.  It has the name "Fred" embroidered above the left breast pocket.  Best of all it has a "Chicago Artists Guild" patch on the sleeve!
The Boomerang Bowling pins shirt is from Daddy-O's but was purchased on Ebay.  It has a large embroidered pin and boomerang on the back along with the name "Meyers".  It is somewhat shorter than most of the other shirts he has.  I have a sneaking suspicion that it may indeed be a woman's shirt.  It does have the name "Pat" embroidered on the sleeve.  That's about as much help as "Chris"!  Anyone else thinking of old Saturday Night Live skits right now? 


'Til we meet again,
Ms. Adventure
 

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