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Oh the humanity
Every single bar mitzvah I do, I have to tell the boys for their three-button suits (and for some reason it's always a three button suit) that the top is "sometimes," the middle is "always," and the bottom is "never." They seem to want to button all three and, well...- Rabbi Mark
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- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Magic's Suit!
I read a piece on Magic in GQ several years ago where they said his bedroom was surrounded on three sides by a giant, wrap-around closet with his suit collection -- over 100, all bespoke. I'd be shocked if his TNT suit for the playoffs were OTR. He also had a half-court hoops set-up inside...- Rabbi Mark
- Post #4
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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The 85 ways to tie a tie
I own this book. Great illustrations. The authors make a particular note of pointing out that the more complicated knots can really only be done with very thin ties because of the amount of bulk that results from the complications of going up and around and over ad infinitum. Basically only the...- Rabbi Mark
- Post #4
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Recommend a basic 1st pair of cufflinks?
For the dress uniform cuff links are actually required (at least by the USMC): [quoting here from MCO P1020.34F, chapter 3] 3007. CUFF LINKS SETS (MEN) 1. The officer or SNCO gold service cuff links set (may include matching tie clasp) will be worn with the French cuff khaki shirt (Officers...- Rabbi Mark
- Post #22
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Overcoat Sizing
lived for ten years in Southern California before moving to NYC and believe me, you really don't need an overcoat. Raincoat, yes definitely, but save your cash on the overcoat -- are you really going to be back east, wearing a suit, in dire need of a coat for more than a day or two, and your...- Rabbi Mark
- Post #9
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Another Vietnamese suit thread...
no quip of mine could possibly top this.- Rabbi Mark
- Post #6
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Does your S.O. get it?
I might be the only one on this board whose S.O. spends some multiple of what I do on clothes. She's a model so she gets quite a bit of it for free, but will think nothing of blowing several hundred dollars on a new bag -- of which she already has several dozen, all in mint condition, all very...- Rabbi Mark
- Post #10
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Recommend a basic 1st pair of cufflinks?
don't know why you (and your boyfriend) think that silk knots are too informal for wear with a jacket. The larger point is that double cuffs / French cuff are the most formal type of cuffs one can have. Thus, no matter how they're fastened you're already a step more formal than plain buttons. I...- Rabbi Mark
- Post #12
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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does anyone watch law and order?
Completely true story: I used to be a prosecutor in Southern California and as a life-long sartorophile (bordering on sartoromania, past girlfriends might correct me to say) I would wear something more elevated than the usual Nordstrom white oxford button down with the ceramic buttons and the...- Rabbi Mark
- Post #36
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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I plan to buy a Rolex
putting aside the guffaw-inducing qualities of the French welfare state, I find the "classic" Rollie -- oyster perpetual, gold and stainless with the bubble-top -- to be tacky in the extreme. On the other hand, Sotheby's had a superb early '60s Explorer in stainless steel on offer...- Rabbi Mark
- Post #65
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Hilditch & Key ties?
I've got several H & K ties and almost a dozen shirts. I absolutely love the shirts, my favorite OTR shirtmaker (though I'm wearing a TM Lewin as I type this). As far as ties are concerned, in my experience, their widths are perfectly mainstream -- not wide, not narrow, so if you're looking...- Rabbi Mark
- Post #8
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Another 42L Purple Label find
Bradford, I feel your pain. -Mark 42L, 36" waist, 34" inseam. <sigh>- Rabbi Mark
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- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Bucharest tailors
Negrila is not near the Intercontinental, it's near the Athenee Palace Hilton, off of Cailea Victoriei and Episcopiei. I haven't been to Buchie in a couple of years, but have been to Negrila at least five times, so here's my best shot at directions -- If you're standing outside of the Hilton...- Rabbi Mark
- Post #6
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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messenger bag?
The LV logo works for small backpacks being carried by young Japanese women. If you're neither young, nor Japanese, nor female, I'd suggest you take a pass. It's just too self-conscious to be taken seriously when carried by a guy. Rawlings makes baseball gloves, one of the best and oldest in...- Rabbi Mark
- Post #16
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Barbour coats - padded coats
Eskdale, according to the very helpful sales associate at the Barbour/Peter Elliot shop here in Manhattan, is the "original" -- whatever that means. I repeat from my previous post that the quilted jacket is NOT original to Barbour (just as it isn't to Zegna or Ferragamo or any of the Italian...- Rabbi Mark
- Post #6
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Sales in London
I just have to say you guys are great. I'm in London on 18 January (returning from Israel) and have scheduled a six hour lay-over to make a mad dash down Jermyn Street. Thanks for the advanced intel on who's offering what and where -- saves me quite a bit of time. One of the reasons why I love...- Rabbi Mark
- Post #64
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Barbour coats - padded coats
Beaufort is the waxed cotton waterproof model, with shell pockets, handwarmer pockets and a vinyl lined game pocket in the small of the back. (I have it in olive green, size 46.) It is not padded or quilted. Frankly, the original quilted jacket for stalking and shooting is the Husky, but for...- Rabbi Mark
- Post #3
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Policy and Opinion:Inter-Forum Copying
I certainly wouldn't think it in poor taste or otherwise unacceptable for a member here to reference another thread on AA. Like j., I just don't have the time to follow two boards (I have trouble finding the time for one.) and would certainly appreciate not missing out on good and helpful...- Rabbi Mark
- Post #16
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Undershirts
I always always always wear an undershirt with a dress shirt, the crew neck t-shirt variety. I started my adult life as a Deputy District Attorney in Orange County, California, so the white undershirt beneath the maroon label Nordstrom pinpoint button down (white only, blue on Fridays when not...- Rabbi Mark
- Post #7
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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How to recognize nationalities through clothes?
Viro, apropos of your wicked, utterly merciless (and quite correct) swipe at my nation's military uniforms, I found this on ebay the other day: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws....36&rd=1 A Gieves Ltd. bespoke Royal Navy uniform coat, apparently from the 1930s. Take a look at the stiching under the lapel...- Rabbi Mark
- Post #44
- Forum: Classic Menswear