If you are going to start with ties, here is a useful resource:
http://myvirtualworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/making-neckties-at-home.html
I can also recommend all of David Page Coffin's other books.
This forum will be useful when...
A few years ago a sales assistant in Budd's told me to put gloves on, spread my fingers and I should be able to drum upon the leather stretched across the palm.
He told me that this was the sign of a well-fitting glove!
I don't know if this has been posted elsewhere, but I was in London on Monday and discovered a newly opened Gallo store.
They have a small selection of clothes, bi-colour ties and socks with more coming soon.
They do not yet have a...
2 suggestions:
1. Appreciation - Like the thumbs up, but used to say thanks without comment. Voxsartoria/F. Corbera's thread on coherent combinations for beginners was one of the most useful articles I've ever read on clothing anywhere...
Just watched Werner Herzog's Happy People: A Year in the Taiga.
A community of people in Siberia, mainly focussing on the Sable trappers.
An unusually mild temperature of -33C on 31st December!