Posts by il_colonnello

Quote:Originally Posted by Tarmac this is the ultimate carry-on right here: Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I just got the Tom Bihn Aeronaut today after searching SF for "hand luggage" and seeing your post. I was looking for...

ok forget it, I got it... just came to me where the error in my thinking was. Solved.

15 years out of school and with a non-science degree under my belt, my maths is a bit rusty. Need to brush up for a computer-based test. The question is this: "Some tourists return to the same country several times in the same year. In...

I'm a bit baffled by the admiration for The National in this thread. They are good but they hardly blow you away. They are certainly a long way from being the best live band I've seen. Not bad, mind you, but not spectacular either.

A few very good (English-language) ones off the top of my head: Jude the Obscure (Hardy) Of Human Bondage (Maugham) A Passage to India (Forster) - or any of his other novels Brideshead Revisited (Waugh) The Way of All Flesh...

No darts. I used to get all my shirts with darts but have grown tired of the look of late. I assume when you give them finished-shirt measurements darts or no darts has no influence on the fit anyway. The cuff buttons in the picture of...

I've had five shirts made by ModernTailor. I picked average back/average shoulders for a couple of the shirts and bent back/straight shoulders for the others. Can somebody knowledgable explain how exactly this information impacts the cut...

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Very good film. Have seen Talk to Her and All About My Mother from Almodovar, both of which are also very good.

The tailors I went to in VN and China have invariably told me I needed 3.5 for a 2-piece. We're not the same build (I'm skinnier but also taller than you); don't know how that impacts the length you need.