Debrett’s Guide for the Modern Gentleman

I know I promised you a treatise on the subject of morning wear, and I’m working on it, but until I can finish it up I’d like to recommend a book for your consideration.
Although Debrett’s Guide for the Modern Gentleman looks like a volume originally published just after the Civil War and contains information about [...]

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Brooks Brothers 15% Discount Card for TMS Members

Brothers, please be aware that full members of The Masonic Society are now eligible for a 15% discount card valid at Brooks Brothers U.S. brick & mortar locations nationwide or online at Brooks Brothers.com.
If you’re a full member of The Masonic Society, please visit the Society’s message board for further information on how to apply.  [...]

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A Recent History of Evening Wear

It seems to me that a good starting place is probably a discussion of what, exactly, we’re discussing and its history and etiquette.
First, the term “tuxedo,” as well as its even more vulgar cousin, “tux,” are singularly American in origin, coming to us from New York.  In 1886, New York socialites James Brown Potter and [...]

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It is the internal and not the external

qualifications of man that Masonry regards…
That phrase is intended to be a leveler, to say that Freemasonry regards no man for his wealth or goods but for his internal qualities, his morality, his integrity, his dignity, his sense of justice; qualities that can exist in an unemployed day laborer and the highest paid CEO in [...]

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Welcome to The Gentleman Mason

This is a test post just to make certain that everything is working the way I want.
It most assuredly is not as of yet, but it’ll get there.

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