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  1. Dr Doran

    Why are you selling off all your precious collections?

    That's interesting as a distinction. I never thought about that axiom, and perhaps I'll start applying it. But I hope that long screeds don't disappear entirely from the Flounge because I find them quite invigorating.
  2. Dr Doran

    How often do you dry clean?

    There is a thread from perhaps a year ago detailing various positions on the "how often to dry clean a suit" debate, ranging from Hemingway Jones who advocates very frequent dry cleanings due to (if I remember) urinal splatter to the opposite position, held, if memory serves, by Baron Kurz...
  3. Dr Doran

    When is overdressing acceptable?

    At all times and in all places, but I'll keep the hat in my hands if I'm getting a frequency of dumb comments on any occasion. But if I'm helping someone e.g. move furniture, I'll dress "workman vintage," not in a suit. That means trousers, workboots, a coarser dress shirt and a cap, perhaps...
  4. Dr Doran

    Show us your suits

    You don't look so bad yaself, Padraic. I still think the head shaved down to the #0 made you look cooler ... more dangerous ...
  5. Dr Doran

    Show us your vintage home!

    I like the living room a lot. Fine light. When is the chairs and sofa set from?
  7. Dr Doran

    Help with Houndstooth?

    Yes, I think nondescript colors would be best for the rest of the ensemble, and no patterns at all. That's my gut feeling. For the hat, perhaps a straw would work, such as a straw boater or Panama. A gray fedora or gray porkpie might work. I am not sure if charcoal will do you right --...
  8. Dr Doran

    The 1937 Office takes shape.

    Fletch, it's gorgeous.
  9. Dr Doran

    Help with Houndstooth?

    A gentleman I know from the Church of Sinatra in San Francisco gave me a jacket very similar to that. For me it has worked best with black trousers, black shoes and socks, a white shirt, a BLACK tie (no pattern), red or black suspenders, and a fresh haircut. I have not yet seen a hat that...
  10. Dr Doran

    What are you wearing today??

    Very nice Djgo-cat-go. Are your boots Red Wing Iron Rangers perchance? They look it.
  11. Dr Doran

    VintageGoth?

    I do remember Clan of Xymox but I don't have any of their stuff. As for Jim Foetus of Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel (possibly the grossest name of all time for any musical ensemble) I find the album NAIL to be one of the finest records in post 1960 music. Sometimes I find myself murmuring "I can...
  13. Dr Doran

    What are you wearing today??

    Merveilleux.
  14. Dr Doran

    VintageGoth?

    Wow. I'll listen to Death in June and Current 93 with you ANY TIME.
  15. Dr Doran

    When does a gentleman fight back?

    I like this post. I have seen this kind of thing, but racialized into a black vs. white thing, where I live. That's an interesting interpretation and it makes a weird sense. Yes, to me this is truly bizarre to not want to improve things. Preferably to improve the world or at least...
  16. Dr Doran

    What are you wearing today??

    Mike in Seattle -- thank you for the compliments. Dahrling, you couldn't look bad even if you had Dinerman's jacket on. Dinerman - I love you man, but that is the ugliest jacket I have ever seen in my entire existence. Freebird -- I am horribly sorry about your brother. I lost my...
  17. Dr Doran

    The Orginal Amos & Andy - Get This Book!

    Thank you just_me, that is very interesting. I think it may be time for a fresh look at these issues also, and I think that this may be the moment to do it. I can speak from long experience in the highest echelons of academia [I am now writing my doctoral dissertation at Berkeley on a historical...
  19. Dr Doran

    When does a gentleman fight back?

    I don't understand. I have never seen an intelligent person call himself a chav proudly. Is that like calling yourself a redneck proudly? I actually have, indeed, seen some intelligent people do that, and they related it to the Scots Irish coming to America and living in the mountains, and...
  20. Dr Doran

    When does a gentleman fight back?

    Fascinating thread. My 2 cents. 1.) Lear, either you are stretching the truth, or you come off very very annoying and punchable to many, many people. It's one or the other. If you lived in a horrible neighborhood then there would be some chance that it was not one of those two options, but...
  21. Dr Doran

    Show us your suits

    Hop, maguire ... looking good. Maguire, I am a 42L as well, and my tailor is kept awful busy (and moderately well-off) lowering arm and leg cuffs ... I know the feeling.
  22. Dr Doran

    What are you wearing today??

    New straw boater from Florence Oxblood and white wingtips (cheapies from Brentano; I now agree with Hem that they are not comfortable even though I contradicted him on that a couple of years ago) 1940s tie I got from my friend from Spokane whose adopted grandfather passed away and left him all...
  23. Dr Doran

    Show us your suits

    Stupendous. These faux cuffs were fashioned in the method we discussed in the faux cuff thread, is that right?

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