Newtojackets, I took a picture for you. This jacket has an unusual fit -- close in the waist, close in the body and chest, loose in the shoulders and sleeves. Smallest chest measurement and biggest shoulder measurement of any jacket I have worn. Somehow it works -- it's a total pleasure to wear...
I recently read Mary Lasswell's popular novel from 1942, Suds in Your Eye. Three old ladies, Mrs. Feeley, Mrs. Rasmussen, and Miss Tinkham, live together in a junkyard in San Diego. The book is mostly scenes of drinking beer and eating delicious food cooked by Mrs. Rasmussen, but they also learn...
Again I have to piggyback on one of Fading Fast's excellent posts, because Evelina is a favorite of mine. It has a quality that I associate with great art -- it feels like a new book every time I read it.
There is a kind of cruelty in Burney's comedy: Evelina is humiliated again and again for...
I seem to have forgotten how to post a photo. Let's see if this works. This should be a Fletcher bowler, English, probably wool. We've been having the June gloom weather pattern in my part of California. I took the picture just before cutting down the bougainvillea in the background.
I haven't posted here in several years, but I have been following this thread, and today I am dropping in to express my enthusiasm for Topaze. I love John Barrymore. His performance as Topaze is maybe my favorite role of his. (Other favorites are Counsellor at Law, and, yeah, what he does in...
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