Some time ago I spoke to my good friend Art Fawcett about filling a gap in my hat wardrobe, namely a Homburg. He said he’d be glad to, and today is the big day, it has arrived. I have GOT to get a real camera… Art is an artist as well as just being an [...]
Continue Reading...I’ll be honest with you. I hate summer.
I know most of you won’t agree with me, but the summer for me is terrible. It’s always too hot, this year being a pleasant exception. I don’t golf. Baseball burned its last bridge with me following the latest strike, and the Premier League has been in recess. [...]
At the Masonic Society’s forum we’ve been discussing the virtues of Brooks Brothers‘ custom shirt program versus a bespoke or a made-to-measure product from a tailor. I thought it might be valuable to discuss how the made-to-measure process works, at least with the tailor I use. The process is essentially identical with almost all tailors, [...]
Continue Reading...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 [...]
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 [...]
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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