Unfortunately the Robb Report , which now seems simple and vulgar. Though I think eventually I would have came across Menswear and GQStyle which I like.

Last edited by Afro Saxon (2008-11-27 12:46:01)

Flusser.

Flusser and Roetzel and a few inferior books.

I just stated buying what I liked in Jermyn Street and Savile Riow stores. My taste was formed long before I read my first sartorial book (which was Roetzel's) or even had an internet connection.

Film; the Esquire of yesteryear; the Esqiure Encyclopedia; several Dover titles on male costume; and old Italian tailor who died many years ago.

George Frazier.

Ah, Playboy!  The ingenious places I could hide that magazine!  (Both on my person and around the house.)

Last edited by r. rafael (2008-11-29 14:55:16)

Some time in the late 60s I read my family's copy of Temple Fielding's guide to Travel in Europe. Suddenly I found out about a worlfdwhere someone switched to Brioni  because they were half price compared to Saville Row (and people wrote in to describe their horror stories with Anderson and Sheppard); I learned that Burberry Trench Coats last forever, that you need to own a pair of Purdey's; where you need to order Peal shoes.
    I did buy a Burberry Trench Coat in the 1980s that I still wear (oversized then, it is a little tight at this point) I ordered sweaters from W Bill, and bought McGeorge ones at the Yale CooP. Temple Fielding vouched for them all.
     I tried to buy good clothes, only later realizing that my father had the same taste, but he preferred to spend money on his kid's education.
     Selfish person that I was I, bought clothes at Rosenbergs and Richard Thomas and the Yale CooP. Stylish American clothes with a bit of an English flaire (I still own the Burberry carry on bag my mother bought at a Richard Thomas sale in 1980. Still people say when I throw it over my back: How stylish! I repeat: yeah, 30 years ago it was stylish). I bought English shoes at Barries because I found out they were the best, most durable shies.
      What you learn is to ignore style and fashion. Buy what you like, which often as not is the stuff you grew up with: In my case Shetland sweaters, Duffle Coats, Heavy flannel suits, Harris tweed jackets, corduroy pants and flannel pants, durable English shoes and boat shoes. heavy wool socks. I could go on a bit but the stuff is pretty basic. Durable stuff. the stuff that might last through a Depression.
     I think I might have learned more from my father if I had paid attention. But I learned a lot fromTemple Fielding. (Princeton of some forgotten pre War year. But absolutlely Princeton) MY father was WPI, which means something in engineering circles in the NorthEast.

before the foraa, i spent a lot of time in parks wearing trenchcoats.

uncle gomie