Formal Dress Forum

[bananaman]

Quoting BasilSeal from 15:35, 25th Apr 2005
I would say that you're certainly entitled to the United College tie.

I'm much obliged.

[Anon.]

Quoting Eliot Wilson from 10:59, 28th Apr 2005

Quoting Steveo from 10:42, 28th Apr 2005
On an unrelated note, to what extent are gowns viable or acceptable to wear to a ball (which is of course, black tie)?

To no extent.

I'm finding it very hard to think of a garment which, worn at a ball, would make the wearer look more of a tit.

Except, of course, pink shorts.

[RJ Covino]

Quoting Anon. from 13:59, 28th Apr 2005
Except, of course, pink shorts.

Nantucket Red, surely - now with a Strafford Club bow-tie!

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[Mr Comedy]

Surely you could top it up with that velvet jacket that looks like a pair of curtains?

[RJ Covino]

Quoting Mr Comedy from 18:19, 28th Apr 2005
Surely you could top it up with that velvet jacket that looks like a pair of curtains?

Only if it has a pink lining.

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[JCH]

I do beg your pardon, what a moron I clearly am.

Not a moron; a well-known outfitter has just had to alter its promotional literature after it mis-spellt the name of its own address, so it really is quite a common but irritating (to me) mistake.

[Andrew Cusack]

At the tea-and-coffee following the Latin mass in Edinburgh today I ran into a friend who graduated from St Andrews (I believe in the 1970s). He noted the United College tie I was wearing, and said there used to be a tie which, if I recall him correctly, was striped gray and blue with the shield of Bishop Kennedy in the gray stripes. I neglected to inquire what it was the tie of, as the conversation had quickly moved on to Parisian traffic concerns, but suppose it may have been something to do with St. Salvator's Hall since that was where the graduate in question lived. Anyone know of this tie?



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[exnihilo]

Quoting JCH from 12:17, 28th Apr 2005

I do beg your pardon, what a moron I clearly am.

Not a moron; a well-known outfitter has just had to alter its promotional literature after it mis-spellt the name of its own address, so it really is quite a common but irritating (to me) mistake.

It's a few back now, but if I remember correctly, I may have been making the point that I know perfectly well how to spell Savile Row, and had merely made a typing error. Doubtless it does irritate you, a great many spelling mistakes irritate me also. Not least the one in the post I've quoted from your good self.

[exnihilo]

Quoting JCH from 12:17, 28th Apr 2005

I do beg your pardon, what a moron I clearly am.

Not a moron; a well-known outfitter has just had to alter its promotional literature after it mis-spellt the name of its own address, so it really is quite a common but irritating (to me) mistake.

It's a few back now, but if I remember correctly, I may have been making the point that I know perfectly well how to spell Savile Row, and had merely made a typing error. Doubtless it does irritate you, a great many spelling mistakes irritate me also. Not least the one in the post I\'ve quoted from your good self.

[Anon.]

Perhaps the F.D.F. has been infected by a mispeling vyrus.

(Spot who's just finished The Well of Lost Plots)

[Jamie potton]

Quoting Andrew Cusack from 19:56, 8th May 2005
At the tea-and-coffee following the Latin mass in Edinburgh today I ran into a friend who graduated from St Andrews (I believe in the 1970s). He noted the United College tie I was wearing, and said there used to be a tie which, if I recall him correctly, was striped gray and blue with the shield of Bishop Kennedy in the gray stripes. I neglected to inquire what it was the tie of, as the conversation had quickly moved on to Parisian traffic concerns, but suppose it may have been something to do with St. Salvator's Hall since that was where the graduate in question lived. Anyone know of this tie?

This was a tie designed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of St. Salvator's Hall in 1980: there are few extant examples remaining in St Andrews. The Porter there used to wear one before ill health retired him (and it), and the University Organist was given two at the time, sporting the second of these regularly.

[JCH]

It's a few back now, but if I remember correctly, I may have been making the point that I know perfectly well how to spell Savile Row, and had merely made a typing error. Doubtless it does irritate you, a great many spelling mistakes irritate me also. Not least the one in the post I've quoted from your good self.

If the misspelt word is 'mispellt' then I would (generally) agree, but my Curtard's Imperial Dictionary of Words and Their Every-day Uses (pub. 1850) gives both spellings.

[exnihilo]

1850, huh? Oh well then, it must be right. The Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Edition), however, lists only misspelt and misspelled. I know which one I'm more likely to trust.

[BasilSeal]

Any news on the new Debates ties, anyone?

[Steveo]

As far as I'm aware, we recieved the wrong ties, be it wrong design, fabric or whatever. I'd hope that there will be a new, correct, batch ready for the freshers in September.

[Mr Comedy]

Quoting exnihilo from 14:04, 9th May 2005
1850, huh? Oh well then, it must be right. The Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Edition), however, lists only misspelt and misspelled. I know which one I'm more likely to trust.

Why must you persist in being abrasive?

[exnihilo]

Abrasive?

[BasilSeal]

All things come to those who wait! Roll on September!

[Tom Plant]

Ah, a formal dress forum. Only in St Andrews, for shame. Most universities are so intent on catering to the masses that they forfend to publish details of their regalia on line. I know: I've checked. They prefer to embellish their sites with pictures of culturally diverse youths with facial piercings, combat trousers and nauseatingly toned bodies leaping athletically while pointing and leering at the unfortunate viewer with a saucy 'yoof' wink.

That said, by September 2006, I'll hopefully have a dark red hood with light red silk lining to flaunt in LPH, marking my MPhil in Theology from Bristol. That's assuming my thesis makes the grade, of course... Wish me luck!

[Guest]

Are double breasted dinner jackets acceptable or is there something not quite right with them?