Fashion Board 11-2-03 - 12-09-03 - Page 173

Atticus Grinch · 11-24-2003, 04:05 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
Hey, how are we doing today? I thought we were gone for the week.

This is what we have to look forward to this week? A flame war between a person who shouldn't be using a collective first person pronoun and a person who should?

The sweet release of death is looking like a better option daily, but I'll settle for the sweet release of L-tryptophan.

Tyrone Slothrop · 11-24-2003, 04:07 PM

I'm thinking about getting a new suit or two. In the recent past, I've always bought Joseph Abboud, not least because they fit me well. Any suggestions for other labels I should look at?

11-24-2003, 04:11 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
This is what we have to look forward to this week? A flame war between a person who shouldn't be using a collective first person pronoun and a person who should?

The sweet release of death is looking like a better option daily, but I'll settle for the sweet release of L-tryptophan.

We also can look forward to your posts full of obscure references such as people named Irving and their cat shit, Mister Reader of the New Yorker. We always enjoy your highmindedness, even when its got nothing to do with the price of tea in china. not to objectify EDITED TO SAY I MEANT DEHUMANIZE your father in law or anthing.

oh, and thanks for playing. You have won the ailbiy to put me on your Ignore List if you dont like it.

evenodds · 11-24-2003, 04:12 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
Hey, how are we doing today? I thought we were gone for the week.

I am lovely, thank you so much for asking. I am sitting by the pool in the lovely 80 degree weather (sunshine with a light breeze) and getting a bit of work done before committing myself completely to vacation tomorrow when my brother OddOdds arrives.

Unfortunately, the OddMan did not accompany me on this adventure. The Odds family is having a no-SO holiday so we can spend quality time with our mother.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Aloha Mr. Learned Hand · 11-24-2003, 04:18 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I'm thinking about getting a new suit or two. In the recent past, I've always bought Joseph Abboud, not least because they fit me well. Any suggestions for other labels I should look at?

I'm an Abboud guy, too. I also have a Mani and a Hart, Schaffner & Marx that fit well.

If Abboud fits you well, like me, you can pretty much forget about Hugo Boss... Can never get them to fit through the shoulders.

Not Bob · 11-24-2003, 04:21 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I'm thinking about getting a new suit or two. In the recent past, I've always bought Joseph Abboud, not least because they fit me well. Any suggestions for other labels I should look at?

Pony, as I recall, is a big fan of Hickey-Freeman. I am more of a Brooks Brothers or Hart Schaffner & Marx kinda guy.

One thing to keep in mind is the audience -- if (like me) you make your living as a litigator (or, as I like to say when I'm speaking at a bar luncheon, as "a trahhhl lawyuh") in a pretty conservative part of the country, you shouldn't be wearing Slave's 4 button Hugo Boss suit while at work.*

*That being said, you can wear a French maid's outfit at home if that's your thing. Not that it's mine. Uh, not every weekend, anyway.

robustpuppy · 11-24-2003, 04:24 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
The sweet release of death is looking like a better option daily, but I'll settle for the sweet release of L-tryptophan.

So sex is out of the question?

(Sure, it's just a little death, but it's better than turkey.)

ThurgreedMarshall · 11-24-2003, 04:25 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
A quasi-related question: How often is it the kicker's fault when a FG is blocked? I would imagine it has more to do with the blocking, etc.

I didn't see the game in question (or even the highlight), but sometimes it's a matter of trajection.

TM

str8outavannuys · 11-24-2003, 04:31 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I'm thinking about getting a new suit or two. In the recent past, I've always bought Joseph Abboud, not least because they fit me well. Any suggestions for other labels I should look at?

Anything that's not Joseph Abboud.

Actually, I also own two JA suits (from when I lived in the greater CT/MA area. They served me well for my 40k/year job between college and law school. But they're not Good Suits (tm). I often see them now at Loehmans, when I go there to look for shirts and ties, which I have decreed it is perfectly ok to shop for at a discounty joint like Loehmans.

I'm quite partial to Hugo Boss suits, and ones hand-made by the guy who calls himself Michael Hopkins* who visits lawyers offices in Los Angeles (and New York, I'm told) selling suits, doing all the measurements and fabric selecting at your office so that you don't have to stop working.

str8

*Michael Hopkins, aka Nishat, has earned a 100/100 on the unintentional comedy scale.

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 11-24-2003, 04:33 PM

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Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
I'm an Abboud guy, too. I also have a Mani and a Hart, Schaffner & Marx that fit well.

If Abboud fits you well, like me, you can pretty much forget about Hugo Boss... Can never get them to fit through the shoulders.

Mani are great. They fit me very well. Many of their suits are tapered down at the waist. Boss and Abboud have always looked boxy on me.

I have a Kenneth Cole suit that actually fits great (which I guess shouldn't be too surprising since Hart Schaffner Marx makes them for Cole(I think?)).

purse junkie · 11-24-2003, 04:43 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
I often see them now at Loehmans, when I go there to look for shirts and ties, which I have decreed it is perfectly ok to shop for at a discounty joint like Loehmans.

Blasphemer. Loehmann's men's section may suck, but Loehmann's can have smashing deals on worthy stuff (at least in the Back Room) in a much more pleasant atmosphere than any other discount place.

By far beats the filthy linoleum and deal-mad supersized tourists pawing the grimy bins and chipped racks at Filene's Basement.

leagleaze · 11-24-2003, 04:48 PM

Cnn notes that Michael has a web site.

http://www.MJnews.us

purse junkie · 11-24-2003, 04:55 PM

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Originally posted by leagleaze
Cnn notes that Michael has a web site.

http://www.MJnews.us

:brick: :sobbing: :seenno:

Atticus Grinch · 11-24-2003, 05:03 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
We also can look forward to your posts full of obscure references such as people named Irving and their cat shit, Mister Reader of the New Yorker. We always enjoy your highmindedness, even when its got nothing to do with the price of tea in china.

Is your point that The New Yorker is high minded? Or that looking down upon eccentrics who live amid cat shit is high minded? The first proposition is a common mistake but easily forgiven. There's precious little that a polite person can say to you if you believe the second.

11-24-2003, 05:08 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Is your point that The New Yorker is high minded? Or that looking down upon eccentrics who live amid cat shit is high minded? The first proposition is a common mistake but easily forgiven. There's precious little that a polite person can say to you if you believe the second.

I am a spinster. I swim in cat shit.