tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post8411665833574728033..comments2024-03-15T04:27:26.708-07:00Comments on An Affordable Wardrobe: How I RollJoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17212956969066796818noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-1466953113538093662010-03-15T11:04:40.478-07:002010-03-15T11:04:40.478-07:00Can the roll be changed/improved by moving the but...Can the roll be changed/improved by moving the buttons? I have a few cheapcheapcheap shirts that I might experiment on, if this isn't a quixotic quest.Schorschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10086968194057010381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-25988139409987939022010-03-15T07:28:30.835-07:002010-03-15T07:28:30.835-07:00You go! 300 is brilliant. It's hard work blogg...You go! 300 is brilliant. It's hard work blogging and you've done an excellent job!Pigtown*Designhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13775512940294150252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-77327629300209604712010-03-13T21:05:27.218-08:002010-03-13T21:05:27.218-08:00Shucks, Churchy.Shucks, Churchy.Giuseppehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11582043853388196139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-37147938791319769502010-03-13T19:53:05.121-08:002010-03-13T19:53:05.121-08:00Giuseppe,
Happy 300th. It's been perhaps 14 ...Giuseppe,<br /><br />Happy 300th. It's been perhaps 14 months since I began reading AAW, and while your delightful wit hasn't changed a bit, you've really become a better writer in the last year. Your prose is more elegant and your cadence more graceful, though you for that you haven't forfeited any of your punchy, no-nonsense, swagger. <br /><br />(This also helps you get away with the occasional apostrophe error; you're almost too cool for precise punctuation.)<br /><br />I think your pictures are improving in quality, too. <br /><br />Here's to a bona fide writer--a budding master of the here's-how-to-be-cool blog genre. <br /><br />Yours,<br />TCCThe Cordial Churchmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14460228317958652523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-47974235132829335902010-03-13T05:53:44.797-08:002010-03-13T05:53:44.797-08:00I love that tie, a vintage classic. Though I under...I love that tie, a vintage classic. Though I understand your point about avoiding the 'Non-Iron' shirts, picture how hopelessly rumpled a 20-something new lawyer looks at the end of a 14 hour day in the office in his regular cotton button down, when he's called into a partner's office to be scolded for missing the comma in a brief, and then has the added dilemma of looking as if he fell asleep while at work? Sometimes Non-Iron is a necessity. <br /><br />www.wearingwhiteafterlaborday.comChristina, Esq.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14516866951134282415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-56317992889889610122010-03-13T03:46:54.181-08:002010-03-13T03:46:54.181-08:00Congrats on 300 G. One of the best.
And thanks fo...Congrats on 300 G. One of the best.<br /><br />And thanks for the shout out. I kind of regret that post because of how much crap it stirred up. Also, it got me a crap-ton of views, which is good but 25 comments is too much for me to keep up with.Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08530840266353044781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-26822319212178525052010-03-12T19:52:07.240-08:002010-03-12T19:52:07.240-08:00Full Kudos to you sir. You got me started thrifti...Full Kudos to you sir. You got me started thrifting, and while I haven't made any true "Giuseppe" scores (except my first one, a pair of C&J captoes for $12) I've built a really nice cool weather wardrobe for about $250 total.<br /><br />Long may you wave.NCJacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-65858991571089739312010-03-12T10:28:38.020-08:002010-03-12T10:28:38.020-08:00Congrats on 300! You're the guy who inspired a...Congrats on 300! You're the guy who inspired a lot of us to start our own blogs. Keep doing what your doing, you always do it so well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-32936436619433781942010-03-12T10:01:21.882-08:002010-03-12T10:01:21.882-08:00Giuseppe,
Have you ever come across a Mercer oxfo...Giuseppe,<br /><br />Have you ever come across a Mercer oxford during your thrifting? <br />Or do Mercer owners never part with them?<br /><br />http://thetrad.blogspot.com/2010/03/off-my-back-mercer-sons.htmlOld Schoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11144953018591590369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-1497605432592568042010-03-12T09:08:25.958-08:002010-03-12T09:08:25.958-08:00Congratulations, Giuseppe. 300 posts and you'd...Congratulations, Giuseppe. 300 posts and you'd be hard pressed to find a dud. Though I'm not one of the thriftin' kind, I appreciate your efforts and success. You thrift for the rest of us. <br /><br />For the aficionados of these things, as you and I are, the collar roll is a subject of serious consideration and worthy of the academic thought which you have given it. I confess to a seemingly endless search for the perfect roll whether that is tied or unbuttoned. Your Le looks great. My first LE BD was bought, a la Giuseppe, at a street stall in Hong Kong. <br /><br />I offer my thoughts as a contribution to your dissertation. Mercer is the best of contemporary makers. Button placement and collar length result in a respectable and reliable roll when tied and a suitable one if unbuttoned though a tad higher top chest button would improve that particular effect. Nit picking, I know, but that's what us serious collar scholars do. <br /><br />I have many BBs and the roll is fine though unspectacular. The old Gants with the heroic roll where you could see half the tie under the collar remain the ideal and I have not seen their like in decades. That doesn't mean I won't keep looking.<br /><br />Thanks, Giuseppe, and – to paraphrase Neil Young – long may you blog.Bluenosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-22414477759617269852010-03-12T07:24:02.237-08:002010-03-12T07:24:02.237-08:00CONGRATULATIONS! Another great post. The tie is ...CONGRATULATIONS! Another great post. The tie is to die for. I had one back in England made by M&S. My wife hates it and I threw it away. Oh well...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11491871352007181082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-49493767983626866722010-03-12T05:06:35.308-08:002010-03-12T05:06:35.308-08:00Congrats on the 300th post G. You are one of the ...Congrats on the 300th post G. You are one of the best dressed cats on the interwebs and that's a lot better than a dissertation.L.A.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09794979185698861626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-21241615996689816182010-03-12T05:06:35.309-08:002010-03-12T05:06:35.309-08:00Non c'è niente a dire...except that that is ce...Non c'è niente a dire...except that that is certainly a magnificent roll!<br /><br />I haven't been as lucky as you with the roll of LE collars, even if the length of their collar points is only millimetrically shorter than the BB collar...which always produces a perfect roll. I think it's because the height of the back of the BB collar (and collar band) are shorter than the LE version. That might affect the collar lying slightly lower and thus produces a better roll.OCBDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-85323989363160406242010-03-12T03:58:43.337-08:002010-03-12T03:58:43.337-08:00Congratulations! I'm never disappointed when ...Congratulations! I'm never disappointed when I come to your blog. Today is no exception. For me, I'm in the "more important how one came by it than its point of origin" camp. <br /><br />Personally, it is not only more IMPORTANT--it is more INTERESTING, more ADVENTUROUS, more CHALLENGING, more SATISFYING...and the list could go on and on.Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08740950362293427086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-14201136244046902162010-03-12T01:16:45.282-08:002010-03-12T01:16:45.282-08:00Congratulations on your 300th post...it was as ins...Congratulations on your 300th post...it was as inspirational and entertaining as the foregoing 299....and i must compliment you on you wardrobe choice of today. What a shirt/tie/blazer combo...spoozyliciouzzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17608977793826086599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-81104529367952586492010-03-11T22:12:04.399-08:002010-03-11T22:12:04.399-08:00Italy is known for its tie-making, especially the ...Italy is known for its tie-making, especially the knits. See, for example, <a href="http://www.howardyount.com/collections/knit-ties" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />My cashmere knit tie, also courtesy of Lands End, was made in Italy.<br /><br />So I don't see anything unusual about that wonderful tie of yours, as preppy as it may be.<br /><br />P.S.: Congratulations! Long may you blog!Young Fogeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-30770791440649001952010-03-11T22:06:48.506-08:002010-03-11T22:06:48.506-08:00I'd expect nothing less for your 300th post. S...I'd expect nothing less for your 300th post. Smart, simple, stylish. Congrats, G!<br /><br />thecableknitcollegian.blogspot.comScott Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17891384177952525852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-24470750339834137482010-03-11T21:56:16.482-08:002010-03-11T21:56:16.482-08:00Huge congratulations on the 300th post. I haven...Huge congratulations on the 300th post. I haven't been reading since the start, but I have gone back through the archives and mostly caught up. <br /><br />I won't even get into your question of sources and origins, but I do tend to think that you basically just have to go with what works.<br /><br />Like you, I prefer second-hand clothes. Regardless of where they came from, I like to feel that there's some sort of provenance with that textile (some more than others, but I certainly wonder about the story behind nearly every piece), and I'm just taking the handoff and adding my own chapter. <br /><br />Congrats again.mistermidwesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17991447839707804625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081206974005845104.post-17223653808713710432010-03-11T21:50:33.256-08:002010-03-11T21:50:33.256-08:00There's no roll like the roll of the long depa...There's no roll like the roll of the long departed, much missed Sero.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com