Recent content by bumphrey hogart

Would love to see a top shot of your hat, a lords' hat is simply an homburg without the silk trim on the brim, so it should still have a gutter crease and brim shape just like an homburg but with side 'bashes' like yours, it does look a beautiful hat! Mr Bowers, it's why I made the point...

A little unnecessary don't you think? The inference is I'm not a hat person so what am I doing presuming to have an opinion! I think you'll find they're so rare because nobody fell for it, otherwise they wouldn't be rare. Putting silk on the underside of an homburgs brim and trying to persuade...

Black tie hat As far as I'm aware the only hat appropriate for black tie is an homburg, the silk underbrim is a nice touch but kind of unnecessary,especially seeing as the opportunity for black tie is so much rarer now. Maybe it's a US thing?

Just found this thread, interesting! just been given a brown lock homburg for my b'day but felt it was a bit too formal for what I normally wear. I have a black homburg for semi-formal occasions, but mostly wear brown hats as I live in a rural area,have dogs and spend most of my time in...

My brothers got 7 RRL leathers! I have 3 aeros and persuaded him to buy one, he just couldn't get on with the stiffness and weight, he spends most of his time in cars,trains and planes, just puts on a coat to move from one 'indoor' area to another, and wants something he can take off and on...

Just a quick question to see if anyone has any ideas. I've just been given a used highwayman for my birthday, my brother bought it me for a song but it had a couple of very easily fixed problems which are now solved. The only thing is it seems to be leaving black on whatever it touches, I gave...

As long as one has one......!

You're never going to go wrong with a neatly folded white linen wherever you end up. Often you don't have the luxury of knowing how informal your formal will turn out to be,there's nothing worse than feeling too informal,it makes you appear disrespectful to your host/hostess,on the other hand as...

How Obama got voted for anything but the worst dressed man is a wonder to me,just look over in the black tie guide for some of the worst faux pas imaginable. Charlie unlike his father has always been a style icon,and unlike aved I am a royalist through and through, but that doesn't mean I...

Come on,the blokes Greek anyway,why on earth are we looking at him as a sartorial icon? Over here he's honestly considered a bit of a buffoon, he's always sticking his foot in his mouth. I think what is expected at court and the acme of style have always been two very different things.

But so many people look to them for the current stance on what is or isn't correct. There must be thousands of people reading their advice on what to wear this season and if you're not careful you're going to be getting 'teenage' stockbrokers sniggering because you're wearing a waistcoat. Not...

Just to throw the cat amongst the pigeons,has anyone seen the latest black tie advice from Debrett's. Here we are debating how many shirt studs is correct and it appears the evening waistcoat and cummerbund will soon be as anachronistic as the boiled shirt. Maybe we should all be investing in...

To add what might be a contentious note,I think there are certain countries/areas that can only be ruled by dictators at the moment. Look at Iraq,whatever you might say about saddam he kept a lid on it and the vast majority of his population had a reasonable standard of life.Since we took him...

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The shawl lapel on eveningwear is, I believe, as old as the Tuxedo itself, and dates back to the late 1880s. Which comes I think is from where the term 'tuxedo' originally comes from, I should have googled this but I believe it was an American socialite who entered the Tuxedo club wearing a...