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  1. Orgetorix

    I can make ties!

    This tutorial may be of help.
  2. Orgetorix

    Need a new idiot box.

    Nope. Mine is a 13" TV/VCR combo with half-blown-out speakers that my wife already owned when we got married. Haven't talked her into us getting a new one yet.
  3. Orgetorix

    Rate My Look

    Regarding the whole tie knot/size issue: None of these is necessarily wrong, it's just that some look better than others. Two general rules to keep in mind: One, the width of the tie should be in keeping with the width of the jacket's lapels. A skinny tie with big lapels looks weird, as does...
  4. Orgetorix

    Rate My Look

    In that case...the color of the shoes is marginally OK. With such a dark blue, I'd stay with darker brown. Black is more formal, brown is less formal, and it gets more so the lighter you go. The shape (the last, in shoe terms) of the shoes is still not right, though--they look big, clunky...
  5. Orgetorix

    Folding Money

    I most often carry no cash (ATM card everywhere), and almost never more than $20. So, not very vintage. I've never owned a money clip. When I do carry cash, I just fold it in half, small bills on the outside, and put it in my front trouser pocket. My wallet (in the back hip pocket) is just a...
  7. Orgetorix

    Rate My Look

    Ok, I'll bite: The shoes are too casual for the suit's formality, and brown shoes with a black suit is a no-no. Look for some black cap-toe or punch cap oxfords. If you're going to wear stripes, with your build they should be faint and spaced as widely as possible. Bold stripes...
  8. Orgetorix

    What Are You Reading

    Here, here! I've read most or all of the Bertie Wooster stories, and I'm now working my way through his lesser-known works as I come across them.
  9. Orgetorix

    A Painless Classical Education

    Cool.
  10. Orgetorix

    A Painless Classical Education

    Thanks for the explanation. That's helpful. I apologize, too, for the gibe about Straussians. No insult intended. I have the utmost respect for you all and have benefitted from Straussian thought immensely (two of my college professors were students of Ceaser and Jaffa).
  11. Orgetorix

    Two Akubra 59-7 3/8 hat on eBay

    If they're your hats, you're welcome to post links to the auctions here.
  13. Orgetorix

    A Painless Classical Education

    Well, I'm more than willing to concede the point. No doubt you know a lot more about it than I do. I was repeating something I'd read elsewhere recently, though for the life of me I can't remember where now. Maybe they were using "modern" in a different sense. Anyway, it just goes to...
  14. Orgetorix

    What Are You Reading

    Leave it to Psmith, by P.G. Wodehouse.
  15. Orgetorix

    A Painless Classical Education

    Only to Straussians.
  16. Orgetorix

    Your First Major League Baseball Game

    '86, Pirates vs. the Mets at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh. I was three. My Sunday school teacher, who took me to the game, was friends with someone on the team, and after the game I got the entire team's autographs on a ball.
  17. Orgetorix

    Your favorite Hot Dog Stand?

    The Original Hot Dog Shop ("The O" to locals) in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh. Great hot dogs, but even more amazing are the fries--a small order is easily enough to feed 2-3 people! Also, the Brighton Hot Dog Shoppe in New Brighton, PA. Great chili dogs.
  19. Orgetorix

    Cool (But Sold) eBay Stuff

    '40s?
  20. Orgetorix

    Show us your suits

    It's actually not all that uncommon for hats to shrink a bit. You can stretch them back out with a hat stretcher like this one.
  21. Orgetorix

    Show us your suits

    Nice. But wait a minute--the suit still fits but the hat has gotten tighter? Most men have the opposite problem! ;)
  22. Orgetorix

    Show NO Shirt Cuff

    Roughing it in the wilds of the Fontana Trevi, I see. Did you bag any game?
  23. Orgetorix

    A Painless Classical Education

    Johnson is somewhat unusual in placing the beginning of the modern period so early; most locate it in the last quarter of the 19th century or opening years of the 20th. If you can find a station that carries them and have your Saturday afternoons free, the (New York) Metropolitan Opera's Live...

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