Utterly disappointing...

[Benny Holiday]

What awaited me was beyond horror. Horrid patterns and fabrics that feel like they could tear apart just from one tug. Armholes that only came in big, bigger, and biggest. I'm not even talking about Armani here, I'm talking about names like Zegna, Paul Smith of London, BRIONI.

Like a quote from a John Wayne war epic, Jovan you can now say you've been to hell and back. Fedora Lounge hell and back, that is! lol

 

[Jovan]

Indeed... my first time being in a supposedly high end store.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Shouldn't Scotch be capitalised when referring to a person?

Pedant!!!

Well - to mark myself as the actual pedant - Scotch is a derogatory term for Scottish people. The word Scotch is never used in polite society to describe the Scots people. (Actually what people describe as polite society i generally known to be the kind of snobbish, plum-in-throat, landed-gentry, uncultured-though-claiming-cultural-ascendancy society (think Dr. Johnson) who would indeed use the word Scotch to describe a people.) The last usage listed in OED is from about 1830 or so.

Scotch is whiskey; Scots are people.

bk

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

Well - to mark myself as the actual pedant - Scotch is a derogatory term for Scottish people. The word Scotch is never used in polite society to describe the Scots people. (Actually what people describe as polite society i generally known to be the kind of snobbish, plum-in-throat, landed-gentry, uncultured-though-claiming-cultural-ascendancy society (think Dr. Johnson) who would indeed use the word Scotch to describe a people.) The last usage listed in OED is from about 1830 or so.

Scotch is whiskey; Scots are people.

bk

Sairy about that - I was simply re(?)interpreting the word from the drink to the person meaning; the spelling question wasn't serious.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I understand (and it - the S word - doesn't bother me at all). I enjoy taking these things too far. I know so many people that are really, really offended by it for some reason.

bk

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

I understand (and it - the S word - doesn't bother me at all). I enjoy taking these things too far. I know so many people that are really, really offended by it for some reason.

Oh, I wasn't defending myself against the reproach of calling Scotio-Britons Scotch, but pedantry, that's really going too far. (North.)

 

[HungaryTom]

Who is Marcus Neiman?

…sorry for the somewhat proletarian question.
I just saw Dormeuil, Holland&Sherry in Budapest at good tailors and at the luxury cloth store.
Those fabrics cost the same here too: few $$$/meters maximum.
Needling machine: Singer(?)
Threads & needles: ???
Taylors: just Hungarian names…
Prices: bespoke suit some 600-800 USD
Still a lotta money left for a flight ticket.
Sorry, the tag won’t say Marcus Neimann.


RTW: A few years ago YSL license production has stopped production in Hungary Szombathely. I saw their RTW suit at 350 USD.
Some Italian names still run here in production ready suits also a few hundred dollars.
Dad could snap a suit from that factory final sale for 100 USD.
Sorry again.

That Rolls Roycelol :eusa_doh: :eusa_clap

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Scotch is whiskey; Scots are people.

bk

You forgot the Scotch Eggs BK.....mmmmmmmm :eusa_clap

 

[Baron Kurtz]

You forgot the Scotch Eggs BK.....mmmmmmmm :eusa_clap

mmmm, heart attack-tastic!

Scotch eggs are lovely.

bk

 

[jgilbert]

Scotch egg. Here in Louisville that means a hard boiled egg covered in sausage then deep fried.
Won't matter how well your suit is made, after a couple of those nothing will fit!

 

[Edward]

Shouldn't Scotch be capitalised when referring to a person?

Scotch is a drink. The people are Scots.

Edit:

Ha, I see the Baron was on the case, already.

Scotch eggs, square sausages, and the very food of the gods - haggis. God bless the Scots.... the daughter nation of we Irish, lest it be forgotten .