Posts by emptym

Quote:Originally Posted by Loathing  All of you are wrong and make for extremely inept Grammar Nazis. The divide isn't between British and American systems. In both countries, both systems are used. The system called "logical...

Moleskin's thick and soft, like corduroy w/o the wales or velvet w/o the smoothness and sheen. Btw, someone asked earlier about the ideal pants (classic and versatile) to wear w/ a blue blazer. I would say light to mid gray wool pants...

While we're gathered together, let me take the opportunity to remind us that in American English, this is correct:Quote:Originally Posted by Big Texas ... therefore, a tricked-out 1996 Accord is "classic."Quote:Originally Posted by...

Quote:Originally Posted by mafoofan That was a different discussion. We were talking about pagoda shoulders. Again, what I'm seeing in all these examples, is not a pagoda shoulder. It is a failed natural shoulder. A pagoda shoulder...

So Foo, you don't buy the explanation Despos gave in the quote I posted a page ago? It seemed to address exactly this issue. He called it a very difficult technique as well as aesthetically pleasing to his eye. Here's the quote...

Interesting. If there's any concavity between Foo's neck and shoulder blade, then it seems to be caused by the collar meeting the shoulder and not the shoulder itself.

Quote:Originally Posted by agjiffy No - the up and down roller coaster along the shoulder line isn't shoulder extension. That is what we are talking about..There is some similarity between Vox's convex to concave shoulder and...

Quote:Originally Posted by mafoofan Don't think so. My jackets have a small sliver of wadding where the shoulder hits the sleevehead, but there is no such inverting. Anyway, I'm having trouble imagining why adding so much wadding that it...

Fwiw, I thought that was caused by a combo of little to no padding and a bit of wadding -- and that the shoulder would round down as the wadding got settled and compressed.

I don't think I ever posted these here, a special order from Alfred Sargent: These are my third and probably last pair of shell boots. Pics of the other two, by DW Frommer and Riderboot, are here, from earlier in this thread.