Formal Dress Forum

[exnihilo]

Indeed, there are far more tailors in London than have premises on Savile Row. You might, at the risk of perpetuating a stereotype, want to have a look around Golders Green.

[Eliot Wilson]

Feel the weight of the cloth etc. Possibly pausing to weep for the suffering of my people.

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Bill and Ted beat the Grim Reaper at Twister

Bill: "You played very well, Death, especially with your totally heavy Death robes."

Death: "Don't patronise me."

[exnihilo]

I wouldn't have thought that necessary.

[Eliot Wilson]

Might get me a discount.

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Bill and Ted beat the Grim Reaper at Twister

Bill: "You played very well, Death, especially with your totally heavy Death robes."

Death: "Don't patronise me."

[Jason Dunn]

On three-piece suits, shout the jacket have three buttons or two? I would opt for the latter, but I'm aware three buttons is more common: is this because of a sartorial rule, or are my tastes simply in the minority?

[Dave the Explosive Newt]

Quoting Anon. from 10:32, 23rd Feb 2006
Go to a non-Savile Row tailor who'll do it for considerably less. I'm getting my final fitting for a three-piece suit on Saturday with a little Italian chap who runs a shop nearby and I'm expecting it to cost less than a grand. Those coves who periodically come over from Hong Kong will make you a three-piece suit for about £500 or even less.

Indeed, the yellow pages can be a goldmine if used effectively. My father was given a suit length of finest Worsted wool by a company he helped out not too long ago and took it to a little local man working out of a back room who made it into a very fine suit indeed for not much more than £100.

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The 'gorgeous' Will Watson.

[deacon brodie]

Quoting Bryn from 13:04, 17th Feb 2006

I cannot see that bow tie with lounge suit is objectionable per se, unless, as I have seen done, the individual in question is seeking to pass off the ensemble of dark lounge suit and bow tie as "black tie." (Of course the bow tie must not be black.)

I quite like wearing my corduroy suit with a black bowtie. It's what I call my Open University look.

I like the cut of your jib, young man. Retro varsity chic.

[Tweedle-Dum]

Something I've wondered is whether it is possibly to teach Mr Ben Nicholson to make his tie cover the top button on his shirt?

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Tetragrammaton is a four letter word.

[exnihilo]

Perhaps he does not care to have it do so. Not everyone is the same, Mr Potton/Watt, and I hardly think this is the place to pick apart an individual's style - stick to general points, yes?

[Bryn]

Quoting Tweedle-Dum from 16:04, 27th Feb 2006
Something I've wondered is whether it is possibly to teach Mr Ben Nicholson to make his tie cover the top button on his shirt?

Because homogeny is the way forward.

[Mr Comedy]

Quoting exnihilo from 12:16, 23rd Feb 2006
Indeed, there are far more tailors in London than have premises on Savile Row. You might, at the risk of perpetuating a stereotype, want to have a look around Golders Green.

My regular tailor in London, Maurice at Roderick Charles, makes a fine suit for just over £500. Mostly business suits however, so if you want evening dress I would suggest that you go elsewhere. Maurice works at the Lime St branch. The made-to-measure ones are fairly good as well, and are certaintly a very good cut. I wear one on a regular basis, although my favourite one is the bespoke one with a pimping red lining, naturally.
http://www.roderickcharles.com/

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"I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea. " -Lu Tung

[Mr Comedy]

Quoting exnihilo from 12:16, 23rd Feb 2006
Indeed, there are far more tailors in London than have premises on Savile Row. You might, at the risk of perpetuating a stereotype, want to have a look around Golders Green.

My regular tailor in London, Maurice at Roderick Charles, makes a fine suit for just over £500. Mostly business suits however, so if you want evening dress I would suggest that you go elsewhere. Maurice works at the Lime St branch. The made-to-measure ones are fairly good as well, and are certaintly a very good cut. I wear one on a regular basis, although my favourite one is the bespoke one with a pimping red lining, naturally.
http://www.roderickcharles.com/

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"I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea. " -Lu Tung

[Anon.]

Quoting Lid from 16:56, 16th Feb 2006
Just out of interest, what's the verdict on black tie with white marcella waistcoat?

Would it look good, or just some weird hybrid?

Some examples of nineteen-twenties attitudes thereto:

Anthony Powell, The Acceptance World

I did not see Templer himself until later in the summer, when I attended the Old Boy dinner for members of Le Bas's house. [...] Templer, like a Frenchman, wore a white waistcoat with his dinner-jacket, a fashion of the moment, perhaps by then already a little outmoded.

P.G. Wodehouse, "The Story of Cedric"

All his life he had prided himself on the unassailable orthodoxy of his costume. As a young man he had never gone in for bright ties. His rigidity in the matter of turned-up trousers was a byword. And, though the fashion had been set by an Exalted Personage, he had always stood out against even such a venial lapse as the wearing of a white waistcoat with a dinner-jacket.

[Tweedle-Dum]

Quoting exnihilo from 16:34, 27th Feb 2006
Perhaps he does not care to have it do so. Not everyone is the same, Mr Potton/Watt, and I hardly think this is the place to pick apart an individual's style - stick to general points, yes?

Fair point, I would like to retract my remark. Now what should one wear to the rectoral installation?

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Tetragrammaton is a four letter word.

[Eliot Wilson]

Academic dress, of course.

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Bill and Ted beat the Grim Reaper at Twister

Bill: "You played very well, Death, especially with your totally heavy Death robes."

Death: "Don't patronise me."

[Mr Comedy]

When is the rectorial installation? I might come along. Although as I understand it I can no longer wear academic dress, as I am no longer an academic, nor a matriculated student of the university.

I am concerned however that I will be somewhat engaged with the St Andrews IV, which I believe is on the same day.

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"I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea. " -Lu Tung

[Dave the Explosive Newt]

This Friday (10th), at 3. You'll have to blag a ticket though. I'll be wearing a suit or something, so you won't look out of place.


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The 'gorgeous' Will Watson.

[Eliot Wilson]

Quoting Mr Comedy from 17:06, 5th Mar 2006
Although as I understand it I can no longer wear academic dress, as I am no longer an academic, nor a matriculated student of the university.

What madness is this? You are, are you not, a Master of the University? Therefore you may absolutely wear academic dress with the gown and hood of your degree. Believe me, anyone who tells me I may not wear academic dress will receive short shrift (if by short shrift one mean's a good kicking).

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Bill and Ted beat the Grim Reaper at Twister

Bill: "You played very well, Death, especially with your totally heavy Death robes."

Death: "Don't patronise me."

[Jason Dunn]

Quoting Eliot Wilson from 18:43, 5th Mar 2006
You are, are you not, a Master of the University?

Possibly a Batchelor, depending on the flavour of geography Mr Vinton opted for.

[Al]

Quoting Dave the Explosive Newt from 18:26, 5th Mar 2006
This Friday (10th), at 3. You'll have to blag a ticket though. I'll be wearing a suit or something, so you won't look out of place.

Is it not open to the wider community? The installations certainly used to be.