Not at all.
If you need uplifting sites: come to Amsterdam.
If you do not wear a suit, one is frowned upon.
Having said that: stay clear from "coffee shops". . .
Search found 20 matches
- Tue Feb 27, 2018 3:28 pm
- Forum: Your Questions and Answers
- Topic: Are the days of tailored clothing numbered?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11106
- Fri Nov 17, 2017 10:41 am
- Forum: Your Questions and Answers
- Topic: Shoe Care
- Replies: 3
- Views: 422
Re: Shoe Care
Every week.
Mirror finish.
Mirror finish.
- Sat Jun 18, 2016 6:04 am
- Forum: The Structure of Style
- Topic: How do you relate your taste in apparel to your environment?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4781
Re: How do you relate your taste in apparel to your environm
Costi wrote:E
Basically there are only 2 categories of people: those who split people into categories and those who don't.
Fun read, Luca
- Fri Mar 20, 2015 6:14 am
- Forum: The Sartorials
- Topic: Craft, art and the pursuit of style
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6026
Re: Craft, art and the pursuit of style
Hear, hear !couch wrote: "You can't teach the vision. What you can teach is technique for realizing the vision."
- Wed Mar 18, 2015 6:15 am
- Forum: The Sartorials
- Topic: Craft, art and the pursuit of style
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6026
- Thu Jul 24, 2014 9:39 am
- Forum: The Bespoke Forum
- Topic: God bless Saville Row
- Replies: 5
- Views: 989
Re: God bless Saville Row
Perhaps our distinguished member Hectorm has an answer to that.pur_sang wrote:I don't mean to be rude, but why do people misspell Savile Row all the time?
- Sat Oct 26, 2013 6:10 am
- Forum: The Bespoke Forum
- Topic: Wedding Party Attire Plans
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2420
Re: Wedding Party Attire Plans
I must compliment you on your choices and how it worked out.
- Wed Sep 25, 2013 4:28 pm
- Forum: The Structure of Style
- Topic: Giles Coren on London Fashion Week
- Replies: 10
- Views: 776
Re: Giles Coren on London Fashion Week
"What" in bold and uppercase ? In the world of internet writing: you are screaming in an uncivilized manner. As for your "civilisation" with s instead of z , well....I believe it´s self-explanatory. Since it is not my intention to change the original post, I'll leave it as it is. With a "s" since w...
- Tue Sep 24, 2013 6:51 pm
- Forum: The Structure of Style
- Topic: Giles Coren on London Fashion Week
- Replies: 10
- Views: 776
Re: Giles Coren on London Fashion Week
The WHAT ?hectorm wrote:in the world of internet writing.
Irrelevant of the enviroment one finds himself, civilisation is one of the indispensable pillars that make what we are.
- Tue Sep 24, 2013 3:17 pm
- Forum: The Structure of Style
- Topic: Giles Coren on London Fashion Week
- Replies: 10
- Views: 776
Re: Giles Coren on London Fashion Week
Oh, how civilized life would be when people did not speak in acronyms
- Thu Sep 12, 2013 1:20 pm
- Forum: The Bespoke Forum
- Topic: Barristers of bespoke
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2108
Re: Barristers of bespoke
From The Gentleman's Art of Dressing with Economy , by A Lounger at the Clubs . London, 1876. In honor of this Gentleman, now long deceased, I would raise my glass of the best whiskey money could buy and make a memorial toast to "A Lounger at the Clubs", may he rest in peace. I do feel indebted to ...
- Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:54 am
- Forum: The Structure of Style
- Topic: The Principle of Appropriateness
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3454
Re: The Principle of Appropriateness
You are mistaken, my dear Lucilius, if you think that luxury, neglect of good manners, and other vices of which each man accuses the age in which he lives, are especially characteristic of our own epoch; no, they are the vices of mankind and not of the times. No era in history has ever been free fr...
- Thu Jul 25, 2013 3:11 pm
- Forum: Elegant Living
- Topic: Bicycles
- Replies: 77
- Views: 15484
Re: Bicycles
Bicycles need regular maintenance, and this is in particular true for the Gazelle brake- and gear-systems. They can get troublesome, if not looked after properly. The grips are one of the things that aren't the way they used to be. My current bike came with a pair of ergonomic grips that I didn't l...
- Mon May 13, 2013 2:55 pm
- Forum: Great Photos
- Topic: 1950
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1550
Re: 1950
vancehn, if that's the waistband of the trousers, then you're proposing that the jacket -which has it's own waistband - is neatly tucked into those trousers ? (google WW2 British battledress jacket to see how thick the waistband of that jacket is). also, where are the belt loops or brace buttons of...
- Mon May 13, 2013 1:30 pm
- Forum: Great Photos
- Topic: 1950
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1550