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  1. Dr Doran

    The Return of The Three Piece Suit

    I experience this on buses and in restaurants. Yes, I like it. A lot. Is enjoying respect a bit snobbish? Nah.
  2. Dr Doran

    The Return of The Three Piece Suit

    Brilliant. That's why I buy pants a bit too big.
  3. Dr Doran

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    People shortage? Perhaps I'll move there, then, especially if a certain duo wins the American presidential election ...
  4. Dr Doran

    The Return of The Three Piece Suit

    I think open jackets look fine when one has a vest on, and many people in the past evidently thought it looked well enough to get photographed. We'd love to see your herringbone three-piece!
  5. Dr Doran

    What gives you "SWAGGER"?

    The first, my good Cookie, is a martini with a smidge of some sort of anise liqueur. The second is a drink that the Lounge's own anon' introduced me to on my last (very fine) trip to Portland, Oregon. It has maraschino cherry liqueur among other things and is whitish. There is no jealousy...
  7. Dr Doran

    What gives you "SWAGGER"?

    That is so nicely written it's giving ME swagger, even though I am exhausted and wearing only a pair of jeans.
  8. Dr Doran

    Essential reading about the 1920s-40s?

    Not a history book, but a novel: Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. This is French (Voyage au Bout de la Nuit if you read French), not American, but has a hallucinatory vision of trench warfare in WW1, then French colonial Africa, and also, perhaps most pertinent to your...
  9. Dr Doran

    Fedora without a suit advice

    Perhaps a "2008 t-shirt, jeans and fedora" thread can be started for those who feel strongly about this?
  10. Dr Doran

    Reenacting the Warsaw Uprising?

    Will do -- I love Poland and Warsaw is one of my favorite cities there -- although I have many favorites (Krakow, Torun, Gdansk, Gdynia, Sopot, Olsztyn, Lublin, the list goes on and I love them all). I'll PM you.
  11. Dr Doran

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    hee hee. Well, I finished a bottle of that ink quite recently and the well in the glass bottle was wonderful. I wonder if I still have the empty bottle somewhere -- I could conceivably put new ink in the old bottle.
  13. Dr Doran

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Yes, I remember the slit in the tip of the mucilage thing. Rubber cement was applied with a brush that was fixed into the lid of the bottle. The name mucilage is kinda gross, though.
  14. Dr Doran

    Suits are out for professionals?

    I'm with Edward Marlowe on this, and with most of you as well. I am also an academic. My university had an opening a year or so ago for a new epigrapher, that is a professor who specializes in Greek inscriptions from 2400 years ago and thereabouts. The winner was the only one in a suit. -- Did...
  15. Dr Doran

    Fedora without a suit advice

    If I'm feeling informal and it's too hot to wear any jacket, this is what works for me. Fedora Long sleeved buttoned shirt with sleeves rolled up Suspenders (button only, no clipons unless my head is shaved and I'm also wearing doctor martens) Trousers (not jeans personally for me too...
  16. Dr Doran

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Long gone. Carter, have I informed you recently that you are THE MAN? That is marvellous that you know where to find those. My dad used to use that. Is that the one that had a logo of an anthropomorphized boar's face on the label? Orange and blue ink with white background? Or am I...
  17. Dr Doran

    Tie clip / tie bar

    I've been doing the tie-blowing-in-the-wind look a bit lately with short, thinner 1930s ties and some of the early 40s ties that are not too loud or huge, and I must say, it works rather well for me if I have my hair slicked back and round black sunglasses and suspenders on. At least I thought so.
  19. Dr Doran

    Tie clip / tie bar

    Funneman, the green set is particularly phatty-bom-batty (i.e. very cool).
  20. Dr Doran

    You know that summer really IS over when...

    :p lol :o :D
  21. Dr Doran

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Congrats. Less Sierra Nevada?
  22. Dr Doran

    Fear Itself (2008)

    SESSION 9 ruled.
  23. Dr Doran

    You know that summer really IS over when...

    I hate heat. You can live my life when Berkeley is hot, and I'll live your life when DFW is cold. You'll have to bone up on your Latin to live my life. I never met a temperature above 70 that I didn't hate.

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