Just seen a couple of pairs of Halrin on sale on line.  Poly/cotton slacks and nice, inexpensive Madras trews.  Would make excellent shorts.  In the US of course.  I'm interested.

Weejun, I wouldn't have the guts either - and I wore some funny stuff in my teens, enough to get me into a few scrapes.  Why is, though, that a foot or so more of the same cloth makes such a difference?  (all right, more than a foot).  Why is something nice for a shirt but not necessarily for a jacket?

a frayed blue / white graph check brooks bros bd
beige chino shorts
navy / burgundy canvas belt
land's end dessies
chestnut brown linen flat cap, wigens of sweden

basically i've been living in dessies. chino shorts, lightweight cotton, madras or linen bd's for the last three weeks. + 32°c even now (10 pm local time) over here.. sweaty sweaty.

Khaki D1, silver grey lacoste polo, sand suede docksteps. Light blue oxford 3/2 roll jacket - freaking hot here,  but I prefer a bit of LS when riding my scooter. 

Heikki, I imagine you in a cloud of mosquitos, but I think that's only in the countryside?

Like the sound of those black Sebago. 

Wearing my pale yellow McGregor Drizzler over pale blue Brooks shirt (modest spread collar and sleeve monogram - all right, Flusser?).  The Drizzler was my £2.99 Ebay bargain before the postage rates went through the roof, and came with a little history.  The seller had worn it off-duty whilst serving with the USAAF in Suffolk during the 1950s, and I like to think it might have made the occasional trip into Soho.  A good alternative to a G9 on a day threatening, well...  drizzle...

I only wish I had the technical suss, NV.  But, as the cannibal surrounded by heaps of bones in the Charles Addams cartoon says, "I'm an old man now, lads, and all I've got is my memories..." 

Yes, I had a nice e-mail from the seller.  Quite nice, McGregor.  I sold an Anti-Freeze last year for good money.

Ebay, NV.  I got for nothing, don't ask why - one of those vagaries that sometimes happens on Ebay - like the time I got sent a buckshee Brooks linen jacket because the seller felt she'd misdescribed the colour of the tweed jacket I'd bought from her.  The Anti-Freeze is really for a younger guy: 'Americana' rather than 'Ivy'.  The more interesting Mcgregor item is the 'Ram', which looks a bit like a shortie, padded, cotton duffle coat, with metal toggles.  A good friend of mine says it has a Japanese influence about it.  It was about $10 in 2008.  I saw it whilst browsing one Sunday morning, fell for the schtick about Chet Baker having worn one and Bought-It-Now.  I sometimes wear it on nippy days over a Paul Stuart crewneck Shetland.

I'm not sure that anyone has except Lloyd Johnson.

*  grey mtm wool trousers
*  light blue open neck shirt (?)
*  navy blue/white polka-dot pocketsquare with navy/white striped border (tie rack)
*  navy cravat with white tiny white polka dots (tie rack)
*  Bone patterned sportscoat. 30% silk 70% wool. (Burberry)
*  black George Materna handmade shoos.
*  black belt

Last edited by The_Shooman (2010-07-16 02:12:10)

A look I am favouring, mostly for indoors at the moment, is a maroon cashmere v-neck over button-down, with plain shorts.  It can also be walked down to the shops in between showers.  Another look I intend to try is one once mentioned by Gibson Gardens, of shorts worn with seersucker jacket.