Posts by acole

Quote: Well, IMO life is too short to drink inferior wines. Fair enough. I'm not really sure what other answer I was expecting there. I do tend to...invest more in reds than in whites, at least--along with avoiding...

In my walk-in (with the typical eye-level hanging bar) I have a woodlore shoe rack, and I'm contemplating another. These fit nicely underneath my dress shirts--suits and jackets hang too low to accomodate this kind of rack. All slacks...

Hmmmmm. Conventional reasoning says: you bid, you won, you pay. But this person's feedback greatly distresses me. Almost all of it is from users who have <10 fb and/or are NARU. And if you check their fb, you keep seeing the same...

Forgot one thing...I suppose those of you who are avid wine collectors know about this already, but I just read that the US Supreme Court is apparently leaning toward voiding state laws in MI and NY that curtail or prohibit direct...

$57/bottle...$75...$96...hmm. I suppose this probably just varies with disposable income, but: at what price point do you gents start feeling uneasy about a bottle of wine, of the sort you'd plan to drink with your average everyday meal?...

A 46 jacket, and the sweater has a 50" chest? If it's a fine-gauge for under a blazer etc, it's probably too big. If it's heavier-gauge/cabled/etc, then it might be OK. Depends on the look you want. I believe most of my XLs measure...

Quote: The vast majority of my dating experience has been with middle-class American white women. Overwhelmingly they impress me as a petty, timid creatures. Now there's a pick-up line. If you said that near my...

I've snagged a couple of BB jackets off ebay...most of 'em were shapeless, fused junk. The only thing I've liked enough to keep is a black blazer in Loro Piana cashmere, and even that has horsehairs coming out of the lapels constantly. I...

Quote: the gray pair has a black polo player. Yeah, but is it really a BLACK polo player, or navy??

This kind of thing just doesn't lend itself to generalization. Whichever way you go you'll just self-select the kind of women who resonate with your choice. If you find you can't connect with anyone, it probably isn't your clothing...