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Garu, thanks for this. I am sorry to learn you were indisposed, but glad to know you feel better. Being ambidextrous is a virtue. Can you really sign your name with either hand? Marcelo, absolutely - equally well. Well, perhaps "equally badly" is more accurate. My mother has condemned my handwritin...

Gentlemen - My apologies for being away for so long, but I have been a bit indisposed over the past few months. I will slowly limp my way back into the bosom of the LL. I agree that this thread is a cracker, and all of the points noted sound plausible. However, I am surprised that one point has not ...

I am going to suggest we do a no holds barred bespoke sewing contest using LL cloth, namely the last two Shetlands (LLTW07 and LLTW12.) Let each participant have his sportscoat made, then let’s post pictures and vote. If the members all use the same cloth, the difference will be seen in the taste o...

DD MacDonald, your jacket (suit jacket?, odd jacket?) looks wonderful, I am waiting until later in the year to have the PoW made up, for the autumn. There are too many other things to get ready for the summer! You and Costi serve as inspirations...

All the best,
garu

Costi, thanks for the picture. The trousers look wonderful - for some reason I was having a very difficult time imagining where there were. My vision isn't as young as it once was!

Cheers,
garu

Costi, your odd jacket is very handsome, indeed. As others have pointed out, this buttoning style (2-button / paddock) requires that both buttons be buttoned. It also usually involves having the waistline of the trousers centered between the buttons. It is difficult to tell from the photos, but is y...

A few weeks ago I got the idea to order a bespoke bowtie from the blue LL silk. So I went to Charvet and place the order and today my bowtie arrived, and here are some pictures from the LL silk bowtie. Very nice, Tim. I asked a few months ago about doing the very same thing and this is the response...

Since we agree most of the way I hesitate to demur from your conclusion that the book is principally a a meditation on catholicism. If you contrast it with books where catholicism is a central theme like The Power and the Glory or The End of the Affair, there's a big difference it seems to me. Reli...

Marcelo, based on some reviews I read about the cinema version, it sounds like they butchered the story a bit, e.g., Julia acommpanying Sebastian and Charles to Venice, Sebastian and Charles having a snog, etc. Even if they did a stellar job with script in the new one, it's virtually impossible to ...

Alfred Duff Cooper is another who is missing - British politician, diplomat, historian and biographer. He made a greatly celebrated maiden speeches in the House of Commons and was Minister for War in WWII. Afterwards he was British Ambassador to France; married to Lady Diana Cooper; when he was lat...

I thought I would add one further example of dress in Japan: My company has two groundskeepers / cleaners. When on duty they wear a uniform that resembles military fatigues (utility uniform). They do not wear their work uniform to work, however; they wear a suit or jacket and tie to work and change ...

Point well taken garu about the standards of dress in Japan. After all, Japan is a society in which government officials (ministers I believe) still appear in morning dress on ceremonial occasions. Not only government officials or ministers, erasmus. The year (fiscal year) starts on the first of Ap...

As mentioned in a different thread (http://thelondonlounge.net/gl/forum/vie ... 7&start=45), the whole of Brideshead Revisited (the television series, not the cinema release) is filled with style.

The Great Gatsby (1974) = Jay Gatsby throwing his shirts into the air for Daisy. Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily. “They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts befo...

PS: Michael, I eagerly await news on the heavy Donegal...

Ta,
garu