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Morning Dress On the Cheap
Well, basically there are four formal (or better 2 formal and 2 semi-formal) sets of clothes. For evening - tailcoat (aka full evening dress, tails, white tie) and dinner jacket (aka tuxedo in the US) For morning - morning dress (aka cutaway, does also have tails, but is less common to call...- Phileas Fogg
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- Forum: Suits
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Prada's Fall/Winter Mens Line
Rather nice and absolutely perfect for my wardrobe, now I can start wearing my frock coats on a more regular basis and just be wearng the latest fashion. It also reminds me of a dispute on another website where the site owner advocated wearing only the latest fashion saying that frockcoats...- Phileas Fogg
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- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Esquire's Correct Dress Chart, 1953
I am appalled by the informality of the chart! It must have been drawn by an American! Sorry, but I got tempted :) Well, to be honest for 1953 a "VIP in town" category and suggesting that the best you can do for daytime is a dark grey suit is almost appalling. The British First Lord of...- Phileas Fogg
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- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Chuckles' Morning jacket
It is a morning coat and it looks a bit retro with the silk piping and the slip. Nonetheless it is a beautiful item. Yours, Phileas Fogg- Phileas Fogg
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- Forum: Suits
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Formal Wear Primer
Where I do get my "ukases" and "fatwas" against white socks? Well, from my father who got them from my grandfather. Sorry, no secret handbook of the perfect gentleman nor fashionable website. I agree that perhaps if you have nothing better you could wear white socks in the way described by...- Phileas Fogg
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Formal Wear Primer
I do always wear white socks whenever I go for a practice session with the cricket team but aside from this they do not find much place in my schedule. White socks should be worn only for sports. The only exception I find reasonable is white silk hose with breeches but so far the last time I...- Phileas Fogg
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- Forum: Suits
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Formal Wear Primer
Dear Mr Rathdown, you are most welcome. I may add that "Vestire gli onori" has wonderful colour plates with 1:1 reproductions (drawings) of the contemporary Italian orders, all the former Italian orders currently authorized as dynastic orders by the Italian government (therefore most of the...- Phileas Fogg
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- Forum: Suits
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Formal Wear Primer
Dear Rathdown, for now, from the "Code de la légion d'honneur et de la médaille militaire" (official French government website) Article R67 En costume de soirée, habit civil ou militaire, l'écharpe de grand'croix se porte sur le gilet dans les cérémonies où le Président de la République...- Phileas Fogg
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Formal Wear Primer
Well, here is some more information on how to wear the riband, unfortunately it is on German but coming from a German website (http://ordensmuseum.de/bundesverdienstorden/stufen/stufe-groskreuz/)on the German Order or Merit there was not much choice. Trageweise im Original Herren tragen...- Phileas Fogg
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Formal Wear Primer
Dear Mr Huang and Rathdown, regarding orders each one has its specific rules and national "rules" are very broad and more like customs. Even British orders follow different rules, the riband of the Garter and the riband of Saint Michael and George are worn differently (the first from left to...- Phileas Fogg
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Formal Wear Primer
Dear Mr. Huang, the rules at the Court of Saint James are one thing (and it is good to know them, so thanks for the link) but the world does not end there. What if, say, the Polish Ambassador (thank you Dr. Kilroy for the pictures of President Moscicki) were to attend an official function in...- Phileas Fogg
- Post #1,114
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Formal Wear Primer
Oh, well, no I did not forget, but uses do warry from country to country Basically, in many countries (like the Vatican City - Holy See, which also has a good number of knights among people from the UK or USA let alone other countries), the riband is worn under the waistcoat if the Grand Master...- Phileas Fogg
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- Forum: Suits
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Formal Wear Primer
If I may play devil's advocate the issue of clutter on a "minimalist wardrobe" is fine only if you wear no decorations, but as full evening dress is the civilian dress with which is usual to wear the highest number of decorations should someone start to have some (and there are pictures with...- Phileas Fogg
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- Forum: Suits
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Morning dress
Surfing the web on an unrelated search I found, om getty images, a picture of the 1970 wedding of the 2nd Earl of Stockton (at the time Alexander MacMillan), where the grandfather of the groom (the late PM Harold MacMillan, 1st Earl of Stockton) is wearing a morning coat but the groom is wearing...- Phileas Fogg
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- Forum: Suits
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Opera pumps/court shoes registration
Oops sorry, perhaps a double vote, one here and one on AAAC. If you are adding up count me just once please (both for option 1). Yours, Philease Fogg- Phileas Fogg
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- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Morning dress
Sorry, double post due to server problem. Well now that I think about it my evening coat was made from 20s or 30s plates and the last couple of times I wore it I got so many compliments I thought I was going to blush. So much for older things looking ugly and costumey. Yours, Phileas Fogg- Phileas Fogg
- Post #168
- Forum: Suits
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Morning dress
He is behaving like a silly beggar do not worry too much about him. Of course his voice still carries some weight on the web but should he keep pushing ghastly ultra-modern lounge coats and banning whoever disagrees with him he will do a lot more harm to himself than to anybody else in the...- Phileas Fogg
- Post #167
- Forum: Suits
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Morning dress
Good picture. Also the King of Tonga wore a frock suit at the same wedding and there were hundreds of guests wearing morning coats. All in all pretty well for some wild fantasy. Of course Sator was commenting on a specific type of coat and he may have some points there, still his attitude is not...- Phileas Fogg
- Post #164
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Morning dress
Greetings, and, well, Welcome to the Fedora Lounge. I am not surprised to hear that a ladyfriend is behind Sator's change in attitudes, it is one of the most common reasons. Actually I am also not that surprised to hear that somebody has already been banned for "high treason against the...- Phileas Fogg
- Post #162
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