The London Lounge

old money is nothing more than new money passed down a few generations .. and I tend to think in many cases the maxim 'where there is a great fortune, there is a great crime' rings very true. I admire a state such as Sweden .. not perfect but a more equitable society where amassing personal wealth i...

njs, you say that money is now made more & more from 'endevour' rather than birth & you infer this is a positive thing. i would respond by saying that just because you make a lot of money in the system that has been created in the last 100 years or so doesnt mean that you are doing anything of any s...

since most peoples feet are quite different in shape the 'best last' surely depends on which particular manafacturer has designed a last closest resembling your feet's shape! EG for example makes very narrow lasts which i have found taper agressively around the instep, great if you have a narrow foo...

the democracy of st james?! this has to be the funniest thing ive EVER read on a style site & there are some real corkers, admitedly on issues such as the merits of leaving a monk strap open or not, or whether you could get away with a 25 oz tweed suit in hong kong etc .. but this really takes the b...

Richard Anderson's book is quite instructive on the matter. He says that cutters joining the firm was required to adhere to the "elusive Huntsman line". Also, as I know, Terry Haste, who joined Huntsman and then found himself as the only cutter working there (due to the well-known incident) studied...