The London Lounge

Gentlemen, It has been a pleasure reading Your opinions on the various restaurants, chefs and menus in London. I recently listened to a recorded interview with a gentlemen who ran a cafe in 1937 in Tallinn which served 12 different types of carefully chosen coffee and 72 different pastries. One coul...

Dear all, I came across this Gieves and Hawkes RTW jacket in the November issue of Esquire (image at the bottom). I am very interested in this particular type of fabric. The caption calls it simply as 'gray wool'. Would anyone be able to recognize this kind of fabric. Is it something classic or some...

Gentlemen, I came across this particular sir when reading about the history of law enforcement in London. http://www.learnhistory.org.uk/cpp/charlie%20rouse.jpg Charlie Rouse, the last watchman of London. The coat he is wearing looks like nothing i have seen before, specially the sleeve. Can any mem...

Thank you for a wonderful and inspirational insight, both the images and commentary are excellent. Very useful for a young designer such as myself, looking forward to part II!

- Oliver

Wonderfully put, Mr. Couch! However, on the subject of regret, how would one avoid both, the "metaphoric blade" and the dropping the gauntlet if satisfaction was to be had? Difficult, no? ... "Savile Row suits, snuff from Smiths and the membership of a London Club were the essential requisites of a ...

. . . . [A] beautiful quote from John Walter Wayland: The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, o...

Do you not think a gentlemans views to be present in his style and his dress? Always modest, held back, always appropriate and considered. Never flashy or foppish? Should he not show his consideration and eye for form and function in what he wears, his style of hair, the drink he orders at the resta...

Kind everyone, Something i have been pondering about in the past few days. The 5th edition (1815) of Encyclopaedia Britannica defines a gentelman as such: "A gentleman is one, who without any title, bears a coat of arms, or whose ancestors have been freemen" In the 8th edition (1856) the definition ...