We're being a little harsh here boys.

I agree that Fooster is biased, but he likes the product and the firm, so he is going to be biased. Others do exactly the same.

It's a dangerous thing to admit a liking for Rubinacci on this forum but here goes.  I actually like the whole "Neopolitan baroque" design of their clothes and shops and I think both the male Rubinaccis usually look good in their get-up. 

Why then do the fora i-gents often look so awful in their Rubinacci outfits?  As often said on here it must be because looking good is about so much more than just the amount of money spent and blindly following fora groupthink on the must go to tailors.

Time will tell if their marketing strategy will work.  There's a fine line between getting your name and pictures in the press and ending up looking clownish on the Sartorialist.  They must be kicking themselves that - on the internet at least - they are never associated with aspirational customers such as Brian Ferry but instead with only Foo and Whinny or, at best, Nick Foulkes.

An Andylander of a thousand posts will be braving insipid, possibly dangerous and dirty foreign places (Denmark and Sweden) and fearing there may be no "laundry services" in such third-world horror-pits starts a thread titled "need help cleaning clothing."  A knowledgeable Senior Member from Kentucky advises "I'd plan for the worst and assume no laundry services" and recommends hand-washing and "rotation." A Nordic local arrives to assure the iGentry that people in Sweden do wash their clothes but isn't believed. P&P tries to lighten the dirty load with well-placed humor but all is eventually vanquished when the OP confesses, after all this advice,"I am concerned about Denmark. We will be well north of Copenhagen and I am not sure what to expect there." Zooks! Perhaps there won't be electricity there! Or people with teeth!

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?112438-need-help-cleaning-clothing

Last edited by Quay (2011-06-14 11:18:15)

Last edited by Big Tony (2011-06-14 12:35:35)

But yesterday the word of Cruiser might
Have stood against the sartorial world; now lies he there.
And no Andymen are able to do him reverence.
O iGents, if I were disposed to bone
Your shirtings and cordovans to angst and purpled sheen,
I should do Andonius Grifterus no wrong, and Alexius Maxiumus no wrong,
Who, you all know, are venal men:
I will do them naught; I also decline
To bone the brain-dead, neither to bone myself nor you,
Than I will scorn such venal men.
But here's a grocery bag with the seal of Cruiser;
A Moderator found it in his closet, 'tis his will:
Let but the Members hear this testament--
Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read--
And they would go and kiss dead Cruiser's beard
And dip their pocket squares in his sacred lite beer,
Yea, beg the recent y-front off him for memory,
And, dying, scribe and quill it within their prestigious wills,
Bequeathing it as a mad, mad legacy
Along with half a box of tissues.