The London Lounge

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/4ab9/live/fbb07420-8d9a-11ef-8341-abb419129fdb.jpg.webp (from left) UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron in Berlin The UK Prime Minister chooses a tie which, while dark...

Clean. Well done.

Both flat and domed buttons are ordinarily shanked, rather than with holes. The key with shanked is to sink them deep into the fabric so they don't have a discernible bounce. You can tell in the photo above, because looking at the non-functional buttons on the front, their domed lips are flat agains...

Simon wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:24 am

My go-to blazer is in the old 15oz Minnis Fresco. Flapped hacking pockets, and gold buttons but made up with a one-button front and one-button cuff which limits the ‘trophy cabinet’ effect.

Gold buttons, "the trophy cabinet effect", last summer.

The semiotics of the issue are highly context dependent anyway. In a former life I found myself taking a year-long chemistry course at night at Harvard. The professor was a senior faculty member, an old-time Cambridge man and former head of a Harvard research lab, who in the winter taught in a thre...

Very common in New England. Nothing trying too hard about it.

Thanks, perhaps I should request a pure silk or regular lining then. Which do you think is better? Pure silk, while traditional, and still used for formal clothing, is simply not as durable as regular lining. Silk can be used, and is beautiful, on things like white tie tailcoats, but these are not ...

If its good enough for you guys, its good enough for Charles, so I will confirm that his shirts, collars and ties are his weakest point. But who would expect Charles to choose a Windsor collar? He clearly has the intention to distance himself from his prodigious style predecessor and create his own...

Nem500 wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 15, 2023 8:04 pm

I just saw this post. Very sad indeed. I have two pairs of their gloves early last year I sent them my oldest pair for relining.
A real shame, they made super gloves at reasonable prices.

Perhaps they should have raised their prices.

Website says: Unfortunately, we are now only offering our gloves to trade and wholesale customers.

There's something excessively fussy about the smaller bow ties. While the larger ones speak to a more relaxed attitude, befitting of a convivial black tie mood. Reminds me of this comment: Charles has a very fine, birdlike, turkey head. He can afford to wear a tiny collar and points. I suspect the c...

Now that I've looked at it several times, it appears to me to be tabs from the waistcoat...

I another time, it might have inspired the Order of the Loose Waistcoat Tab.

Concordia wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 25, 2023 10:22 am

Appear to be braces not tucked in.

Odd

Trying to understand what these white tabs are supposed to be:


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Leonard Lauder, Carolyn Murphy at the Met Gala