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  1. pejsek

    The Official Wine Thread

    It's fully possible to like Burgundy without liking Leroy wines. Heck, you could even like Burgundy without liking DRC. The only way you will know if you like Burgundy is by drinking a bunch of different kinds. Everyone has a house style, but one of the great things about Burgundy is that in...
  3. pejsek

    The Official Wine Thread

    Burgundy really isn't the minefield it once was. With the widespread adoption of modern equipment, vigilance about chapitalization, and the end of the most egregious negociant frauds, buying Burgundy is no longer akin to sailing on the money-reward scale. Most of the generic Bourgogne Rouge out...
  4. pejsek

    An Interesting Colloquy

    I have a Blades suit. Care to share the details? You've got an audience of at least three.
  5. pejsek

    An Interesting Colloquy

    Doing some research on Blades (the fringe tailoring concern that is perhaps the secret link to everything), I ran across this interesting article from Cutter & Tailor in 1971. The discussion between Tommy Nutter and Eric Joy (of Blades) really is worth a glance...
  6. pejsek

    The official thrift/discount store bragging thread

    Finally after a long while some real progress on the Anglomania front. Ebay flippers were on guard, but somehow I managed to outsmart them: immaculate Vivienne Westwood Red Label women's suit in teal blue Harris tweed with an amazing curved black velvet collar; T&A heavy flannel tartan robe...
  7. pejsek

    The official thrift/discount store bragging thread

    BTW, if those ladies golf shoes are a size 7, would you proxy for me? I'm trying to get my wife into the game... Well, that was another thing. They looked to be on the larger side, maybe s.thing like a 9.5. Really great looking, though. Nice score on the cassettes. I draw a line for myself at...
  8. pejsek

    Best Brownie Recipe?

    Too much misogyny (or shall we just be generous and go ahead and call it misanthropy?) here for me. But just a brief point of contention: most food is not inherently boring (though I might make an exception for cassava). Food becomes boring either because the conception is aesthetically flawed...
  9. pejsek

    The official thrift/discount store bragging thread

    Don't know about Fabio Toma, but the floral looks like it could be a Duchamp.
  10. pejsek

    The official thrift/discount store bragging thread

    Passed on a superb pair of bespoke ladies golf shoes from Henry Maxwell--white suede with a navy wing cap, a product of the Dover St years; as usual the punching was completely assured and perfectly executed. I don't think anyone (possibly excepting Koji Suzuki) does brogueing on this level...
  11. pejsek

    Best Brownie Recipe?

    Less flour and only yolks. Use cake flour and don't overmix. I understand the need to keep the flour at a minimum. But why would you use cake flour? And don't you need the albumen from the egg whites to get the desired texture? Baking is so much more about chemistry than other types of cooking...
  12. pejsek

    Question about Brioni Tags

    Thomas Hoving, I think, once said that to someone with a little knowledge a counterfeit just jumps out. You may try to rationalize a different conclusion, but often that first intuition is correct. That coat just doesn't seem right to me. Brioni long ago dropped that embossed lining. In...
  13. pejsek

    Best Brownie Recipe?

    I use Alice Medrich's recipe which is pretty much simplicity itself. At the moment I have about 8 pounds of various brands of unsweetened chocolate lying around the house--when it rains it pours-- and get a lot of practice because my youngest son (okay, and my wife too) really loves brownies...
  14. pejsek

    Dealing with Orphans

    I prefer the subversion of the cautiously thrifty two-pant paradigm. A couple years back I found a Henry Poole chalk stripe suit consisting of one pair of pants and two jackets (sb and db). Much more bang for the buck (and thrifty in a possibly spendthrift way), but then I've yet to experience...
  15. pejsek

    Dinner suit elegance: Fred Astaire being hanged by the neck, from LIFE Magazine

    This speaks to me.
  16. pejsek

    Best dressed US president?

    I think the big problem here is that style now has true negative connotations for most American politicians (WLB excepted, of course). To dress in a stylish manner is seen as untrustworthy and putting on airs. Combine this with the general decline in knowledge about how to dress and, well, there...
  17. pejsek

    I dislike cardigans with pockets. Am I wrong?

    Four pockets on a four-ply sweater strikes me as just about ideal.
  18. pejsek

    Church's Ranch Oxhide--What Is It?

    Thank you, bengal-stripe, for the characteristically informative reply. Interesting that Aarenes lauds krymp's water-resistant properties. The shrunken kudu is splendid. Isn't kudu also the source of Cape Buck? No other shoe-maker seems to use the term Ranch Oxhide, so it seemed to me it must...
  19. pejsek

    Church's Ranch Oxhide--What Is It?

    I'll admit my mind doesn't always jump to the literal, but I don't think these are actually oxhide. Oxhide seems to be the province of budget shoemakers and the Church's ranch oxhide seems, well, nicer than that.
  20. pejsek

    Church's Ranch Oxhide--What Is It?

    My guess is peccary. Nobody else seems to use the term. But if the glove (or shoe) fits.... My all-time favorite Church's leather is Cape Buck. The Ranch Oxhide is growing on me, though.
  21. pejsek

    Sad news about my tailor, Ron Hardy of Steed

    Well, that is indeed too bad. We are all dying, but the master tailors seem to be dying out in unfair numbers. Mortality ought to make certain exceptions. My condolences.
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