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- Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:45 pm
- Forum: Elegant Living
- Topic: Evening gentlemen´s venue in London
- Replies: 14
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Re: Evening gentlemen´s venue in London
The Rules is a great venue, agree. Just keep you hat with you - it might walk away with another guest :cry: A part from places already mentioned, the Durrants hotel bar is another rather cosy place. cheers, david In my last visit to London I went to the Durrants. Nice and cosy place, the carpet tho...
- Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:40 pm
- Forum: Elegant Living
- Topic: Gardens
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1164
Re: Gardens
"If you want to be happy some hours get drunk If you want to be happy for a week kill your pig If you want to be happy two years get married. If you want to be happy all your life till a garden" Chinese proverb. (Or so was I told) Voltaire translation into French of Horatio "sapias vina liques" (fro...
- Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:18 pm
- Forum: Elegant Living
- Topic: Five o´clock tea. Claridge vs. Ritz
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2478
Re: Five o´clock tea. Claridge vs. Ritz
David was very kind and took the initiative to send me a couple of Ms. Lambert´s apricot jams jars. I was surprised and delighted for after his praise of the product I was tantalized so to speak though also paralyzed for Ms. Lambert´s apricot is something of a surprise. Shipping and handling put the...
- Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:28 am
- Forum: Elegant Living
- Topic: Five o´clock tea. Claridge vs. Ritz
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2478
Re: Five o´clock tea. Claridge vs. Ritz
Dear David, Hector et al.. I finally laid hands (or tongue) on Staub´s apricot jam. Donau Tal Marille in the original, I think, not bet. Tasting notes. 1.- Colour. Darker than the usual apricot jam and by a considerable margin. 2.- Consistency. Purée like. Though every now and then you get a chunk o...
- Thu Oct 04, 2012 7:43 am
- Forum: The Bespoke Forum
- Topic: Mann on hats
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1485
Re: Mann on hats
It seems gloves continue to be the formal thing when it comes to balls. Here you have the Vienna event hotly contested usually by demonstrators.
- Wed Oct 03, 2012 6:23 pm
- Forum: The Bespoke Forum
- Topic: Mann on hats
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1485
Re: Mann on hats
BEFORE...AND BEYOND. Just to add a bit of pepper to the topic. Our forefathers used the glove in formal occasions in quite a different way. With tails always in a ball to prevent the crude experience of skin to skin contact. Here you have a couple of examples. http://i.imgur.com/eHw8G.jpg http://i.i...
- Tue Oct 02, 2012 4:38 pm
- Forum: The Bespoke Forum
- Topic: Mann on hats
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1485
Re: Mann on hats
Quite frankly, gents, I never ever imagined I would be discussing hat and glove etiquette in my days. Would you believe that I happened to actually study how to don (whatever) a hat? Primary School (private, nuns, I was five and six years old, never forgot the lesson. The book must be somewhere in t...
- Mon Sep 10, 2012 3:04 pm
- Forum: Elegant Living
- Topic: Five o´clock tea. Claridge vs. Ritz
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2478
Re: Five o´clock tea. Claridge vs. Ritz
You see Hector, I am trying to find a distributor for Ms. Sarah Lambert jams, recommended by davidhuh for his distributor http://www.rvrtee.ch/shop/honig__konfit ... __provence is German Swiss and therefore his shipping and handling are very expensive. I cannot find anywhere in the web any reference...
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 2:34 pm
- Forum: The Bespoke Forum
- Topic: Great looking suits in the movies
- Replies: 43
- Views: 13486
Re: Great looking suits in the movies
As a tailor I look for amazing feats of craft. How about Sydney Greenstreet in "The Maltese Falcon" ? And Robert Shaw in "The Sting". Shaw was a barrel chested rugby player. His "quick" fitting suits never move. Also Jackie Gleeson. Always Elegant and Easy. He had true style. And of course DiNiro i...
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:51 am
- Forum: Elegant Living
- Topic: Five o´clock tea. Claridge vs. Ritz
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2478
Re: Five o´clock tea. Claridge vs. Ritz
Dear Castiglione, since you are living in Spain, have a fondness for marmalades but seem not to have an utterly sweet tooth, may I recommend, for your apricot-off days of course, you try the RAF tomato marmalade from de la Vega de Almeria ? I know, I know,... its name -which comes from the tomato v...
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:40 am
- Forum: The Bespoke Forum
- Topic: Great looking suits in the movies
- Replies: 43
- Views: 13486
Re: Great looking suits in the movies
I watched yesterday "The Big Sleep" once again. Great sartorial culture all around. Not only Bogart but the bad guys too wore flawless garments, suits and coats. . If you like The Big Sleep for its story watch Chinatown (Polanski) if you haven't already. It has the same enticing kind of complicatio...
- Sat Sep 08, 2012 8:57 am
- Forum: Elegant Living
- Topic: Five o´clock tea. Claridge vs. Ritz
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2478
Re: Five o´clock tea. Claridge vs. Ritz
I heard about it and I know they got a prize somewhere "to the best taste of the year". Too conservative, I think, for new tastes, I will change my mind just to humour you, my obliging friend. Will let you know. Thank you for showing me the ways of the vega. Salud.
- Fri Sep 07, 2012 5:34 pm
- Forum: Elegant Living
- Topic: Five o´clock tea. Claridge vs. Ritz
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2478
Re: Five o´clock tea. Claridge vs. Ritz
To loarbams. No you are not too fussy. I am too lazy. My keyboard is not English I sometimes dispense with some marks. As to sightings in hotels, sorry I have no sightings to remember. Well upon second thought Don Ameche at the Miguel Angel in Madrid and Walther Mattau and Ed Harris at the Sutton Pl...
- Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:05 am
- Forum: Elegant Living
- Topic: Five o´clock tea. Claridge vs. Ritz
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2478
Re: Five o´clock tea. Claridge vs. Ritz
Dear Alden and David. What an awesome couple! Well I started to order in all directions; we will see if I get answers when and how. I do not feel up to the task of discussing Demel for all I did there was to have millefeuilles usually on Sunday morning. I can advice, though, not to go to Demel late ...
- Mon Sep 03, 2012 3:27 pm
- Forum: Elegant Living
- Topic: Five o´clock tea. Claridge vs. Ritz
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2478
Re: Five o´clock tea. Claridge vs. Ritz
Thank you for all the tips. In due order. Demel is my list of hauts lieux and it used to my a favourite waterhole during my Vienna days. Never tried its apricot marmalade, just its mille feuilles. Sublime! As to Ms. Lambert I was instructed to order and to wait for instructions, which I am doing. I ...