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by RWS
Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:09 pm
Forum: Elegant Living
Topic: Buenos Aires
Replies: 42
Views: 22619

Re: Buenos Aires

Quite a nice 'site. Like the clothes that the little firm makes: clean, simple, elegant.
by RWS
Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:21 pm
Forum: Elegant Living
Topic: Great One Liners
Replies: 117
Views: 27012

From A Night to Remember , by Walter Lord, recalling the fate of the Titanic and her passengers as she sank: “. . . . Today nobody could carry off these little gestures of chivalry, but they did that night. An air of noblesse oblige has vanished…” I like the expression little gestures of chivalry …...
by RWS
Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:15 pm
Forum: The Bespoke Forum
Topic: Full-legged trousers
Replies: 42
Views: 9373

Cary Grant wrote:. . . . these could also be flat-fronted?
Of course!
by RWS
Sat Dec 20, 2008 4:36 pm
Forum: The Bespoke Forum
Topic: Full-legged trousers
Replies: 42
Views: 9373

I'm 6'1" and slender. I like the look in the abstract but don't seem able to pull it off well: a slight taper from around the knee works better.
by RWS
Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:30 pm
Forum: The Bespoke Forum
Topic: Alterations to bespoke SR pre-owned suit?
Replies: 3
Views: 2335

carl browne wrote:. . . . Is it bad form to have your current tailor do alterations to a former tailor's work? . . . .
It may be, but I've done it. However, after reckoning the double cost, it mightn't have been reasonable to have done it.
by RWS
Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:18 pm
Forum: The Bespoke Forum
Topic: Speaking of Heavyweights
Replies: 12
Views: 3594

Moscow, I hear, is enjoying its warmest winter in many a year. Even the bears at the local zoo have yet to hibernate. Meanwhile, in New England . . . .
by RWS
Wed Dec 17, 2008 3:30 pm
Forum: The Bespoke Forum
Topic: New member
Replies: 7
Views: 2478

Welcome to the Lounge! Particularly with your training and experience, Jukes, we'll all look forward to your participation here.
by RWS
Wed Dec 17, 2008 3:28 pm
Forum: The Bespoke Forum
Topic: New Vass MTO received today
Replies: 26
Views: 8874

The shoe looks very fine, indeed. Do Vass no longer fiddle the waist of the "U" last? (A pair of ready-mades that I bought a few years ago have beautifully fiddled waists.) Go ahead, no Arabs here -- show us the soles!
by RWS
Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:28 pm
Forum: The Sartorials
Topic: Sartorial Heaven, Sartorial Hell
Replies: 12
Views: 3878

. . . . Georges de Paris is around, but no one who actually knows about tailoring has ever had a good word about him IME. 'Reminds me of an anecdote, regrettably not suitable here, dating from my brief service at the White House, nearly thirty years ago. No, no one well-informed would likely enter ...
by RWS
Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:04 pm
Forum: The Sartorials
Topic: Sartorial Heaven, Sartorial Hell
Replies: 12
Views: 3878

Ah, yes. "Hope and Change". We know that Hope is a town in Arkansas. As for "Change" . . . well, let's see . . . . 'Might be New York city ("Buddy, can you spare a dime?"); or, maybe, Detroit (quite a lot of change in fifteen billions!). Surely you realize I ironize. But of course! I merely attempt...
by RWS
Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:34 pm
Forum: The Bespoke Forum
Topic: Frank Shattuck Bespoke Suit
Replies: 28
Views: 13604

Re: Donkey

alden wrote:I knew there was a picture of a suit in Donkey flannel...here it is . . . .
No picture is visible, Michael.
by RWS
Sat Dec 13, 2008 4:57 pm
Forum: The Sartorials
Topic: Sartorial Heaven, Sartorial Hell
Replies: 12
Views: 3878

Ah, yes. "Hope and Change". We know that Hope is a town in Arkansas. As for "Change" . . . well, let's see . . . . 'Might be New York city ("Buddy, can you spare a dime?"); or, maybe, Detroit (quite a lot of change in fifteen billions!).
by RWS
Sat Dec 13, 2008 4:30 pm
Forum: The Sartorials
Topic: Sartorial Heaven, Sartorial Hell
Replies: 12
Views: 3878

JDelage wrote:
rjman wrote:I saw "Sartorial Hell" and wondered why Alden was coming to Washington.
Do you mean, Washingto State? . . . .
Oh, no, JD; didn't you notice that RJ posts from "Freedom"? Where else could that be but at the seat of overweening power, Washington, D.C.?
by RWS
Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:53 am
Forum: The Bespoke Forum
Topic: the cost of bespoke
Replies: 43
Views: 12442

i wonder what i can buy with 5000 pesos? This August, you could have bought a very nice two-piece suit, made by a man who may be the finest tailor in South America. Inflation has continued apace since then, however, so I couldn't say what AR $5,000 would buy now. . . . . sastreria cheverny sounds l...
by RWS
Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:46 am
Forum: The Bespoke Forum
Topic: Bespoke and Teba-like
Replies: 6
Views: 1941

Enthusiasms of an earlier age that fail of sustenance usually disappear for good reasons. To my sensibilities, a jersey-knit jacket is one of those enthusiasms; but I'm willing to be dissuaded.