Recent content by Lgrant

Because I haven’t found another pair of spectator shoes that look as good. Each manufacturer has slightly different styles of brogue-ing, and very subtle changes can make a shoe look ugly (at least in my eyes). I couldn’t find other shoes in the AE price range that looked as good to me.

I love the Rolls razor, and have been using them for over a decade. I have four: a Viscount that I use daily, an Imperial (for nostalgia, because that’s what my dad used), an aluminum Viscount that weighs 10 ounces, instead of 15, and a spare Viscount, in case I drop my daily razor and crack the...

Two-tone spectator shoes with a two-tone car. How cool is that? Excellent look!

The Allen Edmonds Broadstreet was a really nice-looking spectator shoe, especially in black and white or brown and white. They don’t make them any more (You could probably get a custom order for $$$), but there are several on eBay, if you can get past the ick factor of wearing someone else’s...

My regular razor is a Rolls Viscount. I love the fact that they have a built-in strop and stone for the blade, so I never have to buy new blades. (The builtin setup is good for keeping the blade sharp, but not so good for sharpening a dull blade, so I got a couple of used blades from eBay and...

I haven‘t had a pair of Wallabees for several decades, but I remember that they were very comfortable. One caution is that the crepe soles are not compatible with gasoline. My dad discovered this when he stepped in a puddle of spilled gas at a filling station and fell on his butt as the crepe...

My dad bought me a pair of AE wingtips when I started in business in 1970. When I was paying, I usually got Florsheim Imperials. About 10 years before I retired, I realized that I could afford AE wingtips, and got a couple pairs. They were comfortable, good looking shoes. Since I retired, the...

I am not actually wearing this hat. Since I moved from Chicago to the tropics, I can’t really wear felt hats. The tropical humidity is not a good environment for felt hats. But I am still tempted to get this Bailey Darron pork pie hat in blue. I really like this hat. Here is the link for it at...

I think we need a new trend: fedoras with embroidery or patches on the front. I'm not talking about fine felt fedoras, but those crushable cloth fedoras. (I can't remember the name of the style right now.) From time to time, I run into ball caps that have cute slogans or logos on them. Every...

I have never been a fan of shaving cream in a can. I hate how after you apply it to your face, you have a bunch of shaving cream between your fingers that you have to wash off before you can get to the business of shaving. Usually I use glycerine shaving rounds from Em's Place...

Thank you! I'm a little disappointed. I've been thinking about how cool that hat band was for 60 years, and it turns out it wasn't real. (And like the article says, I would have been watching it on a 12-inch (round) black-and-white TV). Maybe I need to commission someone to make me one so it...

In the 1960s, there was a TV program where the protagonist was some sort of troubleshooter. He wore a black hat, either fedora or a flat cowboy hat. (I don't remember the genre of the show.) And he had a hatband made up of a bunch of oval mirrors. Does anyone remember this? I always thought it...

I was looking for a belt pouch for my Rolls Viscount. Why? Well, whether you are camping, or roaming a post-apocalyptic wasteland, you need your good shave. (At least I do--I look terrible with a beard.) And you certainly don't want your razor bouncing around in a backpack, where it is likely to...

The common wisdom is that the Rolls can keep its blade sharp if you are good about stropping it after every shave, and honing it every couple of weeks, but it is not very good at bringing a dull blade up to par. So I bought a couple of spare blades on eBay, and had them shipped directly to a...

These are wonderful razors. I've been using one for the last decade. My dad used a Rolls Imperial, in the '50s. They are a little boxier, and have three of the Greek key motifs on the covers, rather than just one. But the Viscount is my favorite. There is also an aluminum version of the Viscount...