VCH Finds: Vintage English Bridle Leather Satchel
I’m a sucker for a nice leather briefcase. And I don’t mean the super slick shiny kind. I’ve already written about my love affair with my...
The Ultimate Beatles Experience: Revolver Soul
Sir George Martin's passing last week was a sad day for Beatles fans everywhere. He played a crucial role in both their early rise to pop...
Industrial Art Meets Your Face: Classic Gillette Safety Razors
We promised when we started VCH that we’d get around to this: Gillette safety razors from the golden era — roughly, 1915-1965. Before...
VCH Classic Movie Review # 1—Anatomy of a Murder
It amazes me this movie isn’t more well known to modern audiences. Hard to believe, too, considering it was so controversial upon release...
Simply Out of This World: Fisher AG-7 Original Astronaut Space Pen
It was probably the best $38 I ever spent. It bought me a pen that writes in the freezing cold and Africa hot desert heat; upside down,...
Churchill Style—Victorian Elegance Meets Modern Branding, Part I
Winston Churchill. He was admired and abhorred, loved and loathed, with equal vehemence by millions in his own lifetime and beyond. He...
Your First Three Jazz Albums
So, you think you like jazz well enough and dig it, but don’t understand it well enough to build even a basic collection? You’re not...
VCH Book Review # 3— Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra
George Jacobs was Sinatra’s right hand man—his live-in valet, chief cook and bottle washer and private confessor for 15 years, from 1953...
VCH Looks at the Classic Pea Coat
Redford and pea coat in Three Days of the Condor, 1976 We think few garments are as flattering to the male form as the good old pea coat....
The Moscow Mule— Vintage Cocktail Makes a Comeback
Once upon a time, Americans didn’t much care for vodka. A cocktail recipe book from the early 1930s joked that vodka was the Russian word...
