The State of Black Tie: Your Observations - Page 85

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Originally Posted by sftiger 


Berate them for looking like assholes. That usually works with my friends.

It does!?  My friends, even the ones who can afford much more and work high-class jobs, seem to cherish looking awful.

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Originally Posted by mafoofan 

Look, I'll be the first to rip an outfit to shreds, but you all are making the very ugly mistake of confusing taste in clothing for the quality of the people wearing it. The truth is that the vast majority of Americans do not pay a fraction of the attention to dress as we do on this forum. Yet, that doesn't make them all rednecks. If you think the rich and educated always know how to dress right, you clearly don't spend much time with many rich, educated people.

Don't even pretend Europe is much different. I've seen too many Europeans to believe there is much substance behind the pretentiousness.

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Originally Posted by sugarbutch 

I think this may be the first  post I can unequivocally +1. Should I be concerned?

It's taken me like a week to get though this thread, but I have to +2 this. I think this is the first post i actually remotely agree with, and I'm actually really glad it's about something of substance as opposed to style nitpicking.

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Originally Posted by msulinski 


What kind of lapel facing does it have? A pin through a grosgrain silk will likely do much less noticeable damage than through a smooth satin silk.

Its definitely satin facing 

The more I think about it, the more I have no hope in finding a solution.  I need some type of magnetic get-up.  I really don't want to pin through the lapel, and even if I decided to pin the flower on, I would probably go above the peak on the lapel, which may look funny so high up.  But at the end of the day, my satin lapel wont be ruined.

I like the magnet suggestion. You can always get those WurkinStiffs collar stays if you can't find anything better. You can run one of the collar stays through the flower and place the magnet on the back. You could probably double-up the magnets.

Thanks for all the responses.  I will talk to my tailor 2mor and see if he has time to do it.  I'd rather have a lapel hole with the stem catcher in the rear of the lapel then have to pin on a flower.  If all else fails, ill be resorting to either a magnet or pining it, and relying on my steamer to take it out.