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Richards of Mountainbrook
Every now and then when I write something that really resonates with someone; I’ll get a private email in response and sometimes the correspondence itself is post-worthy. I wrote Nuanced Authenticity...
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Lucky Velvet
Here we have the gallant Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan. Lord Lucan…“Lucky”Lucan to his coterie of chance games friends.Born in 1934, Lucan's aristocratic trajectory was formulaic...for a...
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Better Days: Tom Wolfe on Richard Merkin—1992
It’s no secret that I love Tom Wolfe and loved Richard Merkin. Well, actually, I still love Richard Merkin. There’s enough of Richard on my walls and in my sartorial literature files for me to consider...
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Christmas Morning ’66: Stony vs. Joe
I’ve written about how absolutely riveting it was when the Sears Catalogue…the Christmas Book…arrived at our house. My sister and I would fight like cats and dogs over it ‘til my mom would remind us...
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Shoes in 1986: THE Pair that Got Away
Our boy Yankee Whiskey over at his blog, wrote a great little tongue in cheek predictive regarding what some of his blogger friends would be writing about in 2013. Slip over there and read it if you...
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Senior Prom 1973
My mother hosted an after-prom breakfast for my sister and her friends. I remember it. I also remember wondering what the big freakin’ deal was about the prom. It was 1973. I wasn’t quite dialed into...
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Trad-Ivy Tuesday: Adolescent Trad or…How to Dress a Son
LFG’s middle school graduation ceremony—year before last—I’m there as always. Like I’ve said a thousand times before…I’m not looking for a fathering merit badge or medal, I’m just trying to do...
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This is a Blazer
Rather staid I know. The options for fuzziness and the latitude for swank are for good reasons, limited in the blazer department. But this one awaits my first try-on.And of course this is a blazer too....
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Ode to Toad...dans Velours Côtelé
Blame this on Toad. He made me do it. Not directly mind you...for he knows nothing about this fuzztacious corduroy shawl collared thang. Leastways not till he stumbles upon this expose'. But it's the...
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Tadich Ethic—Part One
As the DC area decides this morning whether or not to delay or cancel the various events and happenings that will impact my LFG chauffeuring duties today, I’ve found a moment to finish a story—one that...
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Bellied Lapels
The artisanship herein is epic. But I don't like bellied lapels. And I don't have time to write blog stories. But when I do, I'll take up the issue.Stasis.ADG II
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J. Press York Street
From Gentleman's QuarterlySo a reader emails me and asks my opinion about the J. Press-Ovadia collaboration called York Street. I had no clue what he was talking about. After snooping about a bit and...
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Black Fleece Summer 2013
Gentlemanmac, a very pertinent reader left a snarky message for me over at my tumblr. Here it is…“Are you ever gonna change that stupid York Street picture that's been up for two weeks? At least put up...
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Some of y'all know that my paying job involves strategy work in the biotech/pharma/medical device/diagnostics space. I thought that I'd mix business and pleasure by sharing with you one of the latest...
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The Tadich Ethic Redux
It was several weeks ago that I promised part two of my San Francisco sortie. I believe my promise was… “The next day.” Its dilatory arrival speaks to the paucity of time that I have these days to...
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Well Edited Cadence: My Take on G. Bruce Boyer
Bobby Short had it I think. His friend and one of my fuzzy mentors, Richard Merkin did not. I’m glad to know this because it tells me that the appropriately modulated may still befriend the reckless....
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Unit Price Grab-Ass
Now let's see. We open this edgy new store that fills the angst-irony-urban twee void that Rugby's departure created. Twenty or so days into it, we start the markdown goat-rodeo. "Now wait a minute,...
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Sterling and Burke Hosts Benson and Clegg
My appreciation for Sterling & Burke is well established. I feel Bond-ish when I’m there. New and Old Bond that is. The streets. In London. Or maybe the Arcades…Piccadilly, Burlington and...
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Two floors below is Labor and Delivery…headquarters for joy and hope and tender beauty. Youth and happiness. New beginnings. One floor below is Oncology…beginnings and farewells. The twain in...
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