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  1. Dirk Wainscotting

    Sport coat and jeans??

    Well, as far as I'm concerned the only jacket that truly works with jeans is a corduroy jacket. It has just enough of a casual vibe to work with jeans and still raise the tone.
  2. Dirk Wainscotting

    Sport coat and jeans??

    That voting trend must be the heat making people daft. It's in the air... Bartender Edit: Please be reminded that political commentary is forbidden on the Lounge. Thank-you!
  3. Dirk Wainscotting

    Formal Wear Primer

    Looks pristine.
  4. Dirk Wainscotting

    Sport coat and jeans??

    Grey tweed jackets (or blue) with mild patterns like small herringbone, small checks, probably work with jeans. Pairing classic tweed jackets, in greens/browns with bold checks, with jeans often looks utterly foolish. I can't quite comprehend why someone would go to the effort of selecting such...
  5. Dirk Wainscotting

    Show off the sports coats.

    There's no drape in the chest of that coat. It's very nice though.
  7. Dirk Wainscotting

    Show off the sports coats.

    ^ Pete Campbell in mid-sixties Mad Men!
  8. Dirk Wainscotting

    Running amuck w/ Palm Beach Linen!

    If it's disintegrating you must have used too much bleach. It may be curtains for this garments. A real shame.
  9. Dirk Wainscotting

    Running amuck w/ Palm Beach Linen!

    You might want to check some other areas of this site for laundry advice. However... it may not be the bleach (though chlorine bleach can indeed yellow whites), but rather the soap residue not rinsed out and allowed to dry. Especially so if it was heat dried. You need to use oxygen bleach for...
  10. Dirk Wainscotting

    If I had to pick one girl from the golden era

    A British beauty I always liked (especially in Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes) was Margaret Lockwood:
  11. Dirk Wainscotting

    What do you use to shave?

    What at both ends? What I mean is with a DE you can spin the head around and shave again before rinsing. I don't think any unnecessary refuse is insignificant; if I can substitute it with something better and cheaper that creates less waste, it seems worth it to me. Now as to dull...
  13. Dirk Wainscotting

    What do you use to shave?

    I recall that my grandfather would throw them on the coal fire and they melted! Like I said though, I end up with a little stack of DE blades at the end of the year, maybe no more than 2 or 2.5cm , and they go to the recycling place. All said and done, with the number of electric shavers that...
  14. Dirk Wainscotting

    What do you use to shave?

    Disposable razors are useless for heavy stubble. They have only one blade edge and that clogs easily. And do I want to be throwing away lots of plastic like that? The only thing I'm throwing away is small amounts of recyclable metal and not much of it in a single year (about enough to make a...
  15. Dirk Wainscotting

    How you ever worn certain clothes to give others "the finger?"

    Now I think about it I did once wear leather trousers to the last day of a job I absolutely hated; to annoy the bosses. I think it rather backfired though because I was the one who looked a complete twit waiting in the bus queue at 5.45.
  16. Dirk Wainscotting

    Cricket

    It's the taking part that matters most (unless of course it's a matter of winning back the Ashes:D).
  17. Dirk Wainscotting

    Post '30s belt-back jackets and suits

    And the rear of the armscyes cleaning up I presume?
  19. Dirk Wainscotting

    Formal Wear Primer

    Go away shill.
  20. Dirk Wainscotting

    Cricket

    That last one disappeared into the street! Superb stuff. I like the slightly 3/4 angle the camera takes here. The camera now is higher and centred and it's harder to see. There's a real charm to the old cricket films.
  21. Dirk Wainscotting

    Cricket

    I just looked up the Ken Burns documentary and see that it's ten episodes long! That ought to keep me busy (and informed) for some time...
  22. Dirk Wainscotting

    Vanguard Savile Row

    Well...as interesting as it is, it's not really a 'Savile Row' suit. I don't know the history of that label, but Savile Row suits are not made by Toronto factories or American factories for Toronto clothiers, or factories at all! Savile Row, being only a street, and not any particular company*...
  23. Dirk Wainscotting

    Cricket

    Haha, it's true, but also very cruel. Even in England you now find more people who don't know the rules and it must be because football has more-or-less replaced it; especially in many schools. I never liked football, but I loved cricket from day one.

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