The London Lounge

Yesterday I went on a tear of clothes/style book-buying (much cheaper than buying clothes) and ordered the Marinella book, among others. I found a French website listing a bibliographie of a few style books, including one by Bernard Lanvin and another by Tatiana Tolstoi, both with titles with "Elegance" and "Masculine" in them. Have any members read them? What are they like? There is also a series of books by John De Greef about Chemises, Cravates et Accessories and Costumes. Does anyone know them?

I also discovered that there is a shirtmaking museum, although it is way the heck out:
Musée de la Chemiserie et de l'Elégance Masculine in Argenton-sur-Creuse. Has anyone been there? Is it interesting?

There is also the (Paris) Musee de la Mode exhibition "L'Homme Paré", which I'd like to see. Any reports would be welcome.

Just tossing these out.

Isn't the museum of shirtmaking one which Michael Alden mentioned, with photographs, in an earlier thread?

RJ, would you be so kind as to give us the URL of the online bibliography? I keenly feel the need to increase my own library.

RWS wrote:RJ, would you be so kind as to give us the URL of the online bibliography? I keenly feel the need to increase my own library.

I was expecting Bresch would be the first to ask . Mind you, it's not a particularly comprehensive list -- and we have Le Flusser cited:
http://www.ucad.fr/fr/09doc/01mode/page04-02-04-01.html
There are different resources as you select different male style topics from the list at left.
Manton's the real bibliographer...

Many thanks, RJ, for the link. The entire 'site is interesting and doubtless will result in hours and hours of attempts to revive a linguistic facility dormant since childhood.