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A don doesn't wear shorts or Lederhosen, Herr Hitler ... "
Vito Corleone

Liliputinss. What, the heck, is this?
http://stihi.ru/2021/11/24/7101

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The term Lederhosen , singular in German usage: Lederhose, German:  lit. "Leather Pants") is used in English to refer specifically to the traditional leather breeches worn by men in South-Germany, Austria, Bavaria (namely Upper Bavaria), South Tyrol and Slovenia. The term Trachten Lederhose is often used in German to avoid confusion with other types of leather pants.

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According to Imperioli, Gandolfini never knew who the caller was or how he got his number. But after the late actor told the writers on "The Sopranos" about the anonymous phone call, the line eventually made its way into the show in season four, episode one, when Carmine Lupertazzi tells Tony Soprano, "A don doesn't wear shorts."

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Where the line "A don doesn't wear shorts" came from - according to Michael Imperoli
From the In Conversation With The Sopranos last night, when the topic switched to James Gandolfini and they all told "Jimmy stories", Michael told one about that line. I've heard variants of it elsewhere. Around S2-3 timeframe when the show was picking up steam and real life wiseguys were paying attention to it as well, James got a phone call in the middle of the night.

It was from an unknown number and kept calling so finally he answers it and there's this male voice on the other end. Sounded like an Italian from the east coast. He said "Jimmy, you're doing a great job and we love the show. But I gotta tell ya' one thing. A don doesn't wear shorts. Keep up the great work" and hung up. James thought it was a prank of some kind and told the rest of the cast and asked if they did it and all swore no.

David found out about it and they surmised it was a real mobster from an east coast family. Chase liked it so much that he wrote it into the scene where Carmine Sr. says it in the S4 premiere.

Steve Schirripa also told a story how around the same time he had an apartment near Little Italy in Manhattan for when they were filming. He had his laundry in a sack and was walking it up to the laundromat and got stopped by a man who looked like a made guy. I believe he identified himself as Joey or Rocco or some name you'd associate with a wiseguy.

The guy was going on about how much he and his friends at their 'social club' loved the show. Steve was being appreciative etc. and then the guy said "But I gotta tell ya one thing. You guys don't whack people right. There's a way ya gotta do it..." at which point Steve noped out and made an excuse to shake the guys hand and thank him again and continue on up the sidewalk LOL.



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Adolf Hitler threw a strop about wearing lederhosen because of his knobbly knees
A NEW study of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's dress sense reveals that he forbade his official photographer from taking pictures of him in Lederhosen because he feared being ridiculed over his knobbly knees.

Hitler did not want to be open to ridicule and placed great importance in his wardrobe choices
Court snapper Heinrich Hoffmann did once capture the Fuehrer in the traditional short-trousered costume of Bavaria, plunging him into a rage.

"He no longer wanted to be thought of as being nothing more than a Bavarian or an Austrian," said fashion expert Esther S;nderhauf, "but as the leader of an entire German empire.


"To that end he wanted total control over his image and not to leave himself open to nakedness and ridicule. He wore his clothes from 1933 onwards as a kind of armour that made him untouchable."

After he saw the Hoffmann print of him in Lederhosen he demanded the return of all negatives showing his "naked knees".

Adolph Hitler wearing lederhosen
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The german leader forbid publication of pictures of him wearing lederhosen
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Frau S;nderhauf, head of Munich's Von Parish Costume Limbrary, is scheduled to give a talk on Wednesday evening this week in the city about her research entitled "Hitler's Dress Code 1889 - 1945," which is to become the basis for a book on Hitler's fashion sense next year. Her study is the first that has been undertaken on his dress sense - a style which was of "supreme iconographic importance" during the Third Reich.

Before the outbreak of war on 1 September 1939, the day of the invasion of Poland, he went through a variety of styles of dress because, according to Frau S;nderhauf, "he wanted to do fashion."



But after the tanks rolled across the border he ordered his valet to only prepare his field grey uniform until the end of the war.


Hitler wanted total control over his image and often practised his speeches in front of a mirror
He wanted total control over his image and not to leave himself open to nakedness and ridicule

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"No matter whether he went to a diplomatic reception or to the opera, or walking the dogs wioth Eva Braun on the Obersalzberg, or visiting the front: he always showed up in a grey uniform jacket," she said.

She until then he had gone through quite a varied, very personal "costume history". In Vienna, where he was a struggling artist before WW1, "he could afford no new shoes and a Jewish roommate had to get him a shabby black jacket from a friendly dealer. "

Coats seemed of particular importance to Hitler. Frau S;nderhauf said: "A coat was the first thing he bought with the legacy from his parents in 1913. Afterwards he had many coats."

One of the first official images that Hoffmann took of Hitler was of him in a trenchcoat.

He demanded his photographer to return all the negatives where he was wearing lederhosen
"In comparison to the dignitaries of the Weimar Republic Hitler stood out clearly fashionable with his bright coat at the beginning of the 1920s, against all the dark-clad, older men in black suits and a detachable collar," she said.

He favoured double-breasted jackets too because they helped "conceal the hips" of which he was also self conscious.

A couple of the Fuehrer's lavish tailoring bills show that he may have posed as a Man of the People, and exhorted his disciples to eat one meal a day, but the reality was quigte different. A 1932 receipt for "two white vests and a couple of assorted accessories" came to the present day equivalent of 4,000 pounds.


His Charlie Chaplinesque moustache was another fashion accessory for him, said S;nderhauf, even though his press chief Ernst Hanfstaengl had warned him; "Your moustache in its current form is almost a challenge to cartoonists. In your case a van Dyck Beard would, my humble opinion, be better suited."

Hitler also, she noted, sometimes carried around a black hippopotamus leather dog whip, presented to him by wealthy patrons, even though for ten years he didn't own a dog.

The whip, S;nderhauf, believes was a symbol for his decision to "exorcise that which he supposed to be evil in his world."