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Talking stocks, trading, and investing in general
Does anyone know the cheapest and best way for an American to invest in individual stocks that are listed on overseas stock markets and do not have an American ADR? I've been looking at a number of interesting European stocks listed in a variety of markets (UK, France, Germany, Switzerland...- dawei94
- Post #25,438
- Forum: Business, Careers & Education
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Japanese Shoes: Bespoke & RTW Super Thread
Wholecut chelseas from YF completed and inbound...more detail to follow- dawei94
- Post #5,869
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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French Tailoring Thread (e.g. Camps de Luca, Cifonelli, Smalto and etc.)
Yeah I was originally hoping to fly out Friday morning and do the first fitting Tuesday morning, which would have eliminated the rushed airport-atelier and vice versa trips, but the wedding added an event on Friday morning after the initial invite was sent out. Had I known ahead of time, I would...- dawei94
- Post #2,121
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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French Tailoring Thread (e.g. Camps de Luca, Cifonelli, Smalto and etc.)
Excuse the atrocious lighting, this was the best I could do right before the wedding. For this order, I went with 3 piece peak lapel dinner jacket with midnight blue Smiths wool / mohair (the 71/29 one with super kid mohair, which was a consensus fabric in the Black Tie thread, by a number of...- dawei94
- Post #2,116
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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French Tailoring Thread (e.g. Camps de Luca, Cifonelli, Smalto and etc.)
More fulsome post to come later, but I just picked up a 3-pc peak lapel dinner suit from Cifonelli (pic of Alex @ Cifonelli presenting it to me attached). The Cifonelli team was particularly gracious in working with my fairly rushed schedule, as I was informed that a wedding I am attending...- dawei94
- Post #2,114
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Un-official Luca Avitabile Napoli Shirt Thread
Fair enough, I guess I'll just do it through a new email thread so that it's not me repeatedly pinging him on the ETA- dawei94
- Post #49
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Un-official Luca Avitabile Napoli Shirt Thread
Sorry I meant the turnaround time from the last fitting to be precise. It feels a bit strange to me that it’s been 7 months since the fitting (and I believe just one is required for the polos) and for them to still not be completed, but wasn’t sure if he was particularly busy or something- dawei94
- Post #47
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Un-official Luca Avitabile Napoli Shirt Thread
Does anyone know LA's current backlog? I originally went to an NY trunkshow in March, was supposed to go to a follow-up trunk show in June for a fitting but that one got cancelled, and then I met him in Naples in late July. I pinged him in September / October asking if there was an ETA but...- dawei94
- Post #45
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Leather Jackets: Post Pictures of the Best You've Seen/Owned?
I will have updates on the bespoke Cromford process in about a month- dawei94
- Post #38,274
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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Leather Jackets: Post Pictures of the Best You've Seen/Owned?
Got it, makes sense. In neither particularly rugged or luxurious is what I'm going for as well. I agree that the character depends more on the things that you noted, but what I've seen (at least among those other makers, this may be different for other makers) is that they pick styles...- dawei94
- Post #38,253
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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Leather Jackets: Post Pictures of the Best You've Seen/Owned?
Got it, sounds like the fitting process went very well then? Was this MTM since you were just modifying the fit of an existing design, or was this considered bespoke (not sure if past a certain point on fit adjustments, it then becomes considered bespoke even with a standard design, like with...- dawei94
- Post #38,251
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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Leather Jackets: Post Pictures of the Best You've Seen/Owned?
Got it, $4k is a lot to do sight unseen, I don't order items like that without going in person (and I actually delayed my departure from London by half a day so that I could visit the store). It sounds like you haven't been able to handle one in person then? I have a couple Seraphin jackets...- dawei94
- Post #38,247
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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Leather Jackets: Post Pictures of the Best You've Seen/Owned?
@LA Guy i remember reading up thread that you had a piece from Cromford? What did you think of their workmanship, styling, etc., and if you went the bespoke or MTM route, the fitting / design process?- dawei94
- Post #38,245
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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Best way to make existing leather gloves work with touchscreens?
Checking back on this, has anyone found a solution to this? “Take off the glove” does not count as it is not practical for repeated use when it’s cold out, as many have noted above. “Don’t mess with them” is equally unhelpful, the gloves have been sitting in a drawer for the entire time since I...- dawei94
- Post #8
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Leather Jackets: Post Pictures of the Best You've Seen/Owned?
Has anyone here ordered MTM / bespoke (if offered) from Cromford Leather in the UK, Rifugio / Melina / Mandelli / Hettabretz in Italy, and Seraphin in Paris? I've ordered a couple more MTO items from Seraphin and they're quite nice, but they're not super enthused about working with you to create...- dawei94
- Post #38,243
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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Japanese Bespoke Shirtmakers
I did! And I actually placed an order for a tuxedo shirt, to be done soon as well. I will need to take pics when I get home in a week, they are trim but not too tight at all, very clean looking, lots of range of motion for the arms, precise construction as you would expect from a Japanese...- dawei94
- Post #10
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Japanese Shoes: Bespoke & RTW Super Thread
Has anyone ordered from Spigola recently? Curious what he quoted as the delivery timeline- dawei94
- Post #5,856
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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The State of Black Tie: Your Observations
To all those who gave me advice on the previous pages, thanks! This is what I ultimately went with: Jacket: 1 button, peak lapel, ventless, jetted pockets Midnight blue Smith's Formal Wear 71 wool / 29 super kid mohair, 310g (this was one of two or three books presented by Cifonelli, I believe...- dawei94
- Post #11,081
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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The State of Black Tie: Your Observations
I ended up doing the DJA Zephir 170 Lino, which is a 55% linen / 45% Giza 45 cotton blend, on the recommendation of my shirtmaker. Very light, looked pretty breathable and felt relatively soft for a majority-linen blend I have some Triplo from maybe 7 years ago but didn't bring it with me to...- dawei94
- Post #11,072
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Sartoria Corcos Consolidated Thread
What Kotaro told me a few years ago was that for suit jackets, he likes to do just a bit of padding to make the shoulder line really clean and straight, but that otherwise he prefers unpadded shoulders (though as other people mentioned, it's not entirely unstructured, there's still something in...- dawei94
- Post #160
- Forum: Classic Menswear