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Well done.

Regardless of metal, I don't think this thread has yet explored the angels-on-pinheads potential of the burning question: flat shanked vs. domed?

Cheers,
Couch

And an excellent script.

That's not trying too hard. That's not trying enough and being sloppy and lazy about dress, which is par for the course for science professors. Changing out of your duck boots into normal shoes is what's commonly done in New England. Changing is certainly common in NE. But this science professor wa...

Since I work at a university, my thoughts will definitely be an outside opinion, as it is not a very formal environment. But consider that a principal consideration in any environment is to feel as comfortable and confident as possible in that context. I'd think both physical and psychological comfo...

I've never seen this myself, but I do recall a commenter on some menswear forum saying that his evening waistcoat had, instead of the single tab used to fasten to a button inside the waistband of the trouser, two of them. These were spaced to attach to the braces buttons. The intent was to transmit ...

This composite photo used by Amazon to promote its streaming of Bond movies prompted me to ponder shapes and sizes of black ties and how they relate to face and head shapes, and to shirt exposure, collar spread and length, and size/angle of lapel V. Hardly a perfect sample (Craig is in Tom Ford that...

Bravo! An inspiring achievement.

I agree with Simon. Two Italian tailors, but you don't say where your skeet and range shooting would occur, or what sort of company you'd be keeping. I grew up in central Texas around deer and dove hunters and with uncles who hunted foxes on foot with packs of hounds. All the skeet and range shootin...

Thanks, Andy, Simon Cundey of Poole, who claim to have made the first dinner jacket, agrees with us both on double vents: "'It's not correct but we don't frown on it,' says Cundey." (in an interview in British GQ - where he also says midnight blue is "historically correct" but they will do black if ...

Thanks for your thoughts, gents. Scot, yes, I'm thinking a slightly more contemporary look (more Daniel Craig in Casino Royale than Jeremy Irons in Brideshead ). I'm slim, and while I have and like pleated trousers (both single and double forward pleats) as well as flat fronts, I think a cleaner lin...

I'm having the LL black mohair blend made up as a back tie ensemble. SB peak jacket, silk grosgrain facings, double vents. Trousers flat front. Waistcoat details still pending. My tailor "normally" uses a braid like this OFB braid for black tie: https://www.theliningcompany.co.uk/media/images/produc...

I second both of Andrew's suggestions above. If you have black hair and strong features, you might pull off the black suit, but in any case a shirt and tie that bring some luminosity to frame the face will help things. Here's a photo posted several years ago by our member RichardS that have always t...

Vox, thanks for this. I'm sure you're right. You remind me of the scene in "Swann in Love" (based on Proust's Swann's Way ), set in fin de siècle Paris, in which Charles Swann (Jeremy Irons) is dressing with the assistance of his valet. Indeed the fastidiously pressed linen shirt is drawn over his h...

Noting the length of both Broooke's shirt and jacket sleeves (well onto the hand) and their close fit at the wrist, I wonder whether the style may have prompted leaving some buttons open to permit freedom of movement of the hand. This would be analogous to the (usually buttoned) slits in the hem of ...

Just revisiting this and noticed for the first time that in all the photos Beebe is wearing a turndown collar with his white tie ensemble. Are his motives for doing so recorded anywhere? Was it a blow for comfort à la the PoW's innovations, a deliberate "signature" differentiation, a reference to a ...