The watchmaking profession is alive and well (I noticed in the first few replies that "watchmaker" or horologist was something several people missed.) I wanted to do something that wasn't so corporate and kept craftsmanship alive, so I went to school for watchmaking. I now have two...
Thanks for the thoughts, all. I'll keep my eyes peeled here in a few months. Unfortunately, a little excursion to Ireland for weekend shopping is a little bit out of the question for me at the moment, so I'll have to see what I can dig up in some of the big-city department stores come...
Apologies to the mods, I think this is the right forum for this but would rather not put money on it.
Where can I get a good quality, relatively-genuine Aran Sweater? I want something in the traditional cream/white color, with real wool, rather than acrylic, and it must be thick and warm...
Ok, you're all going to think this is positively decadent.
Due to, how shall we say, "a complex set of surprise circumstances," I found out today, pretty much completely out of the blue, that I'm going to be making a trip up to St. Paul, MN this Thursday and Friday. I told a friend, and he...
I wholeheartedly concur, Indy. :eusa_clap
When I was a kid, we often rode bikes, and I never had any kind of serious accident. Nobody that I know did either. We rode on streets and sidewalks, and it was a small town. It's pretty safe to say that you'll eventually have some kind of spill...
Well... those folks look like a really cheery bunch. If the chap in front wasn't posing on the ground, you'd think they were on their way to a funeral.
(Yes, I know it's just period photography.) Usually, I think of boaters as being a '20s and "Jazz age" type thing. It was seen as rather...
I've got an old German helmet from WWII. An elderly veteran in my hometown gave it to me when I was 10 years old. Sadly, the markings are very worn, so I don't have much to go off of if I wanted to research exactly what sort of service it pertained to, and so forth. I know very little about WWII...
Going back to the topic of a few pages back, adding a splash of color to one's dinner jacket ensemble, I've always found that a pocket handkerchief does this wonderfully. A burgundy, or even (believe it or not) bright red silk specimen will add a dash of color, establish "uniqueness," and not...
Yeah... looking at the crown, it's bashed like a homburg, and looks to be black or dark blue, which fits, since homburgs are/were more formal. However, it's got a snap-brim, so I think it's a fedora. Sort of a fine line between the "stuffiness" of a homburg and the "nonchalance" of a fedora...
I smoke inside. In the winter, outside smoking is out of the question -I do it for relaxation and enjoyment, not because I have a desire to freeze my tail off. In the summer, it's too humid, here in Missouri.
However, since I only smoke a pipe or cigar a few times a week, and I have good...
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