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Was the emasculation of the American male an effort to create a better worker? Replete with shorn locks, no facial hair, and kinder-wear? Fathers who work all the time and paternal substitutes on the big & little screens? Work performance no longer rewarded in pay but kudos, a break room pat on the ...

No sense of occasion.

What a great line.

I've seen it before. But not in such good context. You nailed it for me. Thanks Mr. Seitelman.

Grown men in kinder-wear? Is it the emasculation of the American male?

Gore-Tex may be too stiff or too noisy to be a decent liner. If it is too stiff it might be a 'wag the dog' scenario where it is the dominant fabric and the tweed hangs like an un-made bed on it. Esp the thinner tweeds. But then again, the relative slickness of the Gore-Tex could provide foundation ...

Hi Since I brought Gore-Tex up I'll toss in that it is both comfortable, water-proof, and very breathable of bodily humidity. Imagine a nice tweed sport coat w/ a Gore-Tex lining followed by a silk lining. Get caught in the rain? Who cares? Wind? Who cares!!! And you won't rain your own salty oily h...

Yes, waxed cotton does cause one's perspiration to cause a steam rain inside the coat. So do rubberized fabric rain coats. One becomes wetter on the inside than on the outside. This also brings up a point I don't understand about bespoke and better country clothes and field-wear: Not merging the bes...

A dinner jacket to a Broadway play? I was thinking of asking this more directly in OP, as it is tradition to dine out before the show, with many of the better restaurants offering a pre-theatre or prix-fixe menu to help the party get in and out on time. And it would seem appropriate to wear a dinner...

Being big budget Broadway show Spiderman is making headlines I am curios to know what men are wearing to Broadway theatrical productions these days? A lot of tourist attend these shows. And a lot of islanders. Can one spot the difference? What is the correct gentlemanly dress code for such an affair...

In other areas I've learned some hard lessons that have taught me to stick to the house specialties. This seems a situation in which to apply that rule of thumb. As finding a young, ambitious, talented Italian tailor with a vision he has developed over years of hard work and is cultivating to take t...

You bring up a good point, JDelage.

Where the OP was concerned with ostentatious display of diamonds on bezel and bracelet, what about the more discreet diamond hour marker?

How do LL patrons view a basic Rolex, like a Datejust or Day-Date, with precious stones for hour markers?

I see Rolex sells a lot of watches with diamonds on the bezels and bracelets.

Is this too loud for the LL patron? Too gaudy?

If you had one Rolex with diamonds, which metal would it be, steel, platinum, or gold?

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Any chance of posting pics of the problem? And the edges to be re-sewn?

Good gosh! Lighten up!

Try some escapist fiction.

The old esky illustrations are very informative. They say more than a photo.

Thanks for the offer, Tone Loki. Yes, I would enjoy seeing your photos. And thanks for the article, Marcelo. An interesting article. Sadly, the client lives in the arid semi-desert southwestern United States, near the Mexican border. I'm not sure a three piece suit is practical. Mr. Gleason did have...

What advice would you have for dressing a very obese client?