The London Lounge

Recently I sat down in a lab waiting room after checking in and pondering my chances with the relative experience levels of the phlebotomists on duty I settled in for a quiet, wordless wait for a routine blood draw for routine purposes and the silence of the wait was soon broken. A somewhat younger ...

I recently received my completed three piece in the Brora 646 tweed. I think Michael showed a fitting here or on the Instagram page. Anyway, in the upper left vest pocket I found a note. I thought of this thread and opened it with anticipation. Could it reveal the real me? Alas, it appears to prescr...

old henry wrote:If you do not have a round back a one piece back is great.

This is why, even with Edwin's genius, he doesn't do them for me. He's very polite about it.

I liked Rue Lepic, on pine street just below the Mark Hopkins, last time I tried it. French with perhaps a bit of Vietnamese influence.

Happy New Year Michael and loungers!

Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays to all the "loungers."

UC, this is great stuff. Thanks for the laughs.

It looks good to me. I really have no idea what I'm talking about but I'd guess it's deliberate and is a function of how the pattern runs horizontally across the back of the coat, say back left to right, and how it runs horizontally across the front of the coat, say front left to right. And how the ...

Wait, what? No participation in the sheep-shearing?

:D The text in the apparel arts for the picture Michael posted seems to support everyone's comments. It starts out saying "the hard part is to apparently arrange an unavoidable business trip into the trout country at the right time." When describing the herringbone, the text refers to the man as "th...

Yes, bow slightly askew, a bit of drape in the jacket chest. . . elan.

This is all fine advice. But I wonder what it says about me that my first thought was why the dressing didn't have some mustard or garlic or both.

I'm such a rube I didn't even know what single ended bow tie meant.

That's great, NS! Is that T.S. Eliot? What's it from?