The London Lounge

Dear LL members, I am thinking of having a Norfolk jacket made up for me. What cloth/weight would you recommend? I really like the kind of rugged, casual, soft look of the Norfolk jacket that the main character is wearing in the beginning of the Boardwalk Empires TV-series.

I travel quite a lot in my work, in the past almost exclusively in Western Europe. But many of my future travels will place me in Eastern and Central Europe (Poland, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, Ukraine, etc). As I travel alone I find myself with quite a lot of spare time between meetings. I th...

Simon A wrote:Newly-made-rich Eastern European guys ? I suggest you watch "Dr Zhivago" to see how Russian Old Money used to dress outdoors in midwinter

As I said, my good man, "A great coat in fur might pay homage to the past."

A great coat in fur might pay homage to the past. But these days you will more likely look like an Eastern European newly-made-rich-guy. Sorry. (and I hope I did not offend any of the forum’s members from that part of the world) Why not make a great coat , raglan sleeves, with a shawl collar (is thi...