Posts by California Dreamer

Quote:Originally Posted by coxaca Thanks Journeyman, and Quarks too, for your replies. I'm looking at a pair of Santonis from shopthefinest.com. My existing pair of Santonis are Santoni size 9.5 (= EU 43.5). I usually take a 44....

Re Tie Bar, one of my measures of quality is how many times a brand crops up in the op shops. Tie Bar is there all the time, along with John & Lois, Austie and the legendary Pure Silk brand, which seems to be exclusive to op shops.

ELd'O Putain des Palaces today. Trynig not to think about what that name means in English.

21. Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles (2011) Rules of Civility is the story of Kathy Kontent, the daughter of a working-class Russian immigrant, as she circles the fringes of Manhattan's upper class in the late 1930s. Kathy meets...

Today is Comme des Garcons 2 (not the Man version)

I'm wearing Musc Ravageur today.

Quote:Originally Posted by Petepan Dior Jules sample!? Well, he definitely owes you one! My suggestions for classics: Eau Sauvage, Brut, Old Spice, Drakkar Noir, Acqua Di Gio, Issey Miyake L'Eau D'Issey, Fahrenheit, Aramis Tuscany....

Interested in your input. The Melbourne BN crowd has a challenge at each meeting, and the last one was to try to identify a range of female classics from unlabelled decants. To be fair, the are going to do 10 male classics next time. The...

Today is L'Instant de Guerlain Homme. Something's brought me out in a rash again. Since I wore TV and Tuscan Leather on the weekend, and had a reaction to Italian Cypress, I'm starting to think there's something in the Tom Ford range...

20b. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, by Franz Kafka Kafka's Metamorphosis is clearly a modern classic, and any Kafka collection that includes it is going to be worth a read. Yet Metamorphosis can be read in other forms and editions...