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I'm not sure if we have a similar term... I'll do some reseach. However, we do have a saying expressing the same type of attitude: "al mal tiempo, buena cara", translated as "with bad weather, a good face" literally, it means to be positive and forcefull when hard times come.

"Everybody likes a man who looks hard but acts kind"

edhayes, I do not have words to express the extend of my agreement with the above statement and my surprise when reading it in such simple terms. I will quote you on this in conversations outside of the LL, I hope you don't mind.

"which is further back in this forum than probably anywhere else in the world..." NCW, you are absolutely righ in this. In many circles today wearing an odd jacket is dressing formally, wearing a hat (common until 60s) is very much an affectation, and wearing a tie to my universit is a topic of comm...

Today I saw on tv a report about Oscar de la Renta who is here in Madrid to open a new shop. It included a very interesting interview with him giving his thoughts about the direction fashion has taken and where it's going to, and he thought it's on an endless spiral and it won't advance if the new a...

I know about absorbtion of nicotine, that's not my concern with lungs, it's the deterioration of my lung's functioning at high activity, in which I engage nearly daily playing sports (tennis, football, etc). I know smoking (or consuming tobacco in any form, I must say I didn't know that snuff existe...

NJS, thank you very much for your answers, they have answered my questions, although I might have some more doubts. Thanks for the history lesson and for the information on cultivation, production and consumption. I did read a long description of how cigars are made - its a process with so many stag...

Trey wrote: Most passengers on these lines have had the manners of uncivilized farm animals.

I agree completely from my own experience.

Trey wrote:I must say I enjoy relaxing with a glass of Armagnac

Ah, another Armagnac lover, here we have something in common. Which is your favourite, if I may ask?

Tobacco is a big subject - not altogether a popular one - just how much do you want to know? I'm tempted to answer "everything", but I fear the consequences and connotations of that word. So I will just say that I want to know a lot, without restrains on the healthy issue or others. I want to know ...

NJS, I'm sorry for changing the topic of this thread, but given your cognoscenti knowledge on the topic of tobacco, I wanted to ask you something I've wondered occasionaly. I'm only a cigar smoker, so my knowledge about this is quite limited and I hope my questions don't seem ridiculous. I buy my ci...

Are you saying that secretaires are the answer? We're going to have them made for us? But they don't fit any of the definitions (need 3, you share them, used for maintenance...)?

I think maintenance is refered to clothes maintenance, if not he would have said grooming. It might be shoe trees, but you only need 2 of them (minimum), 3 doesn't make sense. What about hangers? Good quality, wooden hangers for suits, and maybe by three he means one for jackets, one for trousers, a...

"the Windsor coat sold at auction in NY" I've seen that photograph several times and I knew it belonged to the duke of Windsor, but I didn't know it was sold at auction. Do we know who was the lucky buyer? (probably some russian billionaire or something).

Something wooden or metallic I think. Shoe trees maybe, but do you tocuh them and not see them every day?

Its really hard to guess.....

NJS's cologne and marcelo's fountain pen seem like the best answers yet, as they ARE fundamental for the elegant life (and using this term I'm sure is to mean it's not part of our wardrobe, not even cufflinks etc) and not made of leather or cloth. However if it were part of a wardrobe, maybe sunglas...

I would like something related to cigars... maybe a cigar cutter?

maybe a hat? (panama, straw...)

following the cufflinks idea: studs?