Period clothing

...from times, when women were ladies and men gentlemen

Every occasion calls for appropriate dress. It's not just a relic or spectacular gesture. Supports, sometimes even shapes any situation. I will not go to the theatre in overalls and will not cleanse chassis of „Kadlo“ in the suit. If it was upside down, my tie would tangle to the grease gun and I would be quickly ordered out from the theatre. Although maybe not, if taken into account, how people are dressed going to the National theatre. Time is sick...

Because the ride with seventy and more years old respectable whitebeard still presents for me a rare festive event, I feel like, that for such a machine I should also be appropriately dressed. There is certainly also a piece of respect for our ancestors, who managed to make a car or motorcycle, which continually faithfully serves. If I would chauffeur it in jeans, it would be for them perhaps offensive. Finally, if I ride such a machine, I am trying approached era I like and which I have liking for their lifestyle. I recognize that my view may be to some extent idealized, because the old movies, books, magazines, etc only affect me. The actual experience somehow, to my great regret, I cannot have. But, given the fact that I probably never heard any witness revile downright on the period of the First Republic Of Czechoslovakia, something extraordinary on it probably must been.

Doubtless it was the era of flair and elegance. While at present it is ideal to look worse and seedy. Why kitsch reigns today? Mr. Guth - Jarkovsky (A famous Czech creator and promoter of etiquette) must be rolling in his grave!

It is true that the plain clothes I perform a mimicry and try to blend in with the crowd. A greyness of daily bad taste is not worth an extra dress. I don't have a need as many others, desperately trying to stand out appearance, when they cannot make a success of theirs lives.

Since my oldtimers beginning I somehow intuitively knew, that a worthy machine needs also a decent suit. From my start with funny knickerbockers made from old trousers fixed by rubber band I move to a uniform or branded sports model.

I do not know whether the oldtimer community finally came to the same opinion, but the number of historically dressed crews at rallies is rising. But what some people are able to hang on themselves is unbelievably. As for confused film directors the old car is a sort of creeping shaking crock, which must necessarily every two seconds powerfully explode and be wrap up in a cloud of black smoke, for many oldtimer crews an idea of the period clothes presents the combination of Louis XIV. with circus clown.