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April Showers

April Showers

While we are not Gene Kelly Singin' in the rain, we had just about the same amount of fun with almost the same amount of style. Mr. Kelly did his number with a classic grey wool four button suit, crook handle umbrella, and pretty styling brim. That suit sold in 2013 for $106,250 after being sold in 1970 to a retired postal worker for $10. A little movie trivia: Gene had a fever of 103 degrees...

Tweed & Church

Tweed & Church

Dandies and Quaintrelles host an annual Tweed Ride in the District of Columbia. Every year we plan to attend, but have not been able to make it. As we wrapped up our shoot, we ran into a few participants of the "2012 Tweed Ride". Ironically, we were dressed in Tweed and were a few blocks from the endpoint. We weren't sure how we would have fit in with motorcycles, but in a sense we had our own...