The London Lounge

Another example of why Monsieur, a flawed magazine I grant you, is the "official" London Lounge magazine: the current issue is devoted to bespoke shirtmaking and has a list of all the bespoke shirtmakers in Paris. Strange omission: Dunhill's shirt bar (unless I missed it, I wasn't reading the article carefully).

For those of us who neither subscribe nor know where to find a copy of Monsieur, would you be so kind as to post the list here? (I still hold a fading hope of finding the website of a French shirtmaker that, on its initial page, showed the handsomest informal shirt I've ever seen.) Thanks, David.

How exactly should I do this? It is a full article with charts. Are you asking for scanned pictures? I am not sure that these would come out so nicely, and the current issue is too big for my scanner. So far as where to get an issue, you can subscribe here:

http://www.info-presse.fr/

brescd01 wrote:. . . . Are you asking for scanned pictures? . . . .

No, just a simple transcription of the list -- names only, if the list be too long for easy addition of electronic or other addresses or telephone numbers.

Again, David, thanks -- if you're willing to type those names!

Michael, do you know have any more information regarding the Dunhill White Shirt Bar? All I know is that the Heritage Boutique where it was based became the main Dunhill Paris store when their other store closed down. There is no longer a link to the Heritage Boutique on the Dunhill website (except through the site map).

So David, does this mean you'll be coming to visit me out there? You were missed this weekend at Domaine Hudson.

What do you mean? Was there some fete at Domaine Hudson?

brescd01 wrote:What do you mean? Was there some fete at Domaine Hudson?

Someone needs to read the Dining forum more often.

Was HK Paris profiled in Monsieur's bespoke shirtmakers article? Courtot? Inquiring minds...

Gentlemen

If there were an LL magazine , what would it be called? Your suggestions? How would you imagine the LL magazine, its content etc?

Monsieur is not the LL magazine, though the last two editions show the positive effect the LL has had on the publication.

Cheers

Yes, please post the names and cities of the shirtmakers. Thank you.

Michael, note that I put the words "official" in quotes. I would never be so presumtuous as to propose something as our official anything. And I know exactly what your reservations are about the rag (I have the same issues with it). But in the entire world, there is no magazine that comes closer to what would interest us. Amongst web sites Purist (http://www.thepurists.com/), Timezone (http://timezone.com/library/tzguides), and Souliers.net (http://www.souliers.net/php/index.php) in their own specialized ways, with our humble abode, collectively make up what I would like to see in print. Of course, I have never seen the famous Japanese mags devoted to shoes.

My choice for a title of an official mag would be "The Lounge."

alden wrote:If there were an LL magazine , what would it be called? Your suggestions? How would you imagine the LL magazine, its content etc?

I believe that LL magazine is a very good idea. Discussion forums are good, but regular magazines with "proper" articles are entirely different animals.

It is not necessary for the magazine to be in printed form (although I, for example, prefer printed reading when possible). "Web magazines" are not very expensive to create and to maintain -- englishcut and thesartorialist, each of which is supported by just one man, proved this.

As on content -- we have a wealth of talent right on this forum. Messrs Alden, bengal-stripe, Boyer, Dubois, Etutee, Gaziano, jcusey, Kabbaz, Logsdail, Mahon, Manton, and many-many others. I believe that at least some of these good gentlemen will agree to write an article or two for the magazine. In fact, "Featured Articles" section of the forum is an initial model of such a magazine.

Ah, the title. For me, "The London Lounge" or "The London Lounge Magazine" pays the bill.

alden wrote:Monsieur is not the LL magazine, though the last two editions show the positive effect the LL has had on the publication.

Yep, and it is in French. Unfortunately, not readable by me (and I suspect, by most other members of the LL).

Andrey

Since we are in the member's section I can give you all a preview of the LL format which will take the site more towards an online magazine format. No not a blog like English Cut but a magazine.

The home page will be opened up to the public. Some of you have been asked to write articles. These will be published on the front page of the site.

The members private section of the forum will be maintained and expanded. Same will be true for the PJs.

If any of you would like to be published on the LL, please submit your ideas or articles to me.

All of your ideas and suggestions are appreciated.

Cheers

PS There is also a possibility you will be seeing a LL magazine in hard print this Spring. More to follow....

Michael Alden has given all of us a most marvellous present. I thank our founder and now look forward to the warmth of Spring for an additional reason.

In this season of sharing, David Bresch, will you please share the awaited list with us? If typing the names (and, perhaps, the addresses) of French shirtmakers from Monsieur prove difficult, perhaps you'd be so kind as to scan the page or two and post to the Photojournal.

David, you have asked dozens of questions since joining here, most in a tone that reads like a demand. Your questions are always answered and yet I can't recall a single, simple "thank you." Don't you think that the least you can do is answer a simple question when one is put to you?

David, you have asked dozens of questions since joining here, most in a tone that reads like a demand. Your questions are always answered and yet I can't recall a single, simple "thank you." Don't you think that the least you can do is answer a simple question when one is put to you?

May I suggest that such messages be conveyed via PM?