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post #5401 of 8977
1/31/13 at 12:28pm
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Originally Posted by patrickBOOTH View Post

You're expecting way too much.

It has a white linen square, I'm doomed? In all seriousness, I like the recent turn this thread's taken on cleaning things up. I love hearing thoughts/theories....
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post #5402 of 8977
1/31/13 at 12:33pm
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Originally Posted by mafoofan View Post

Is the new blog working for you guys? I am screwing around with it.

I think you've been hacked because someone went in and posted this:
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It is a man who is said to live there. They say Antonio Ambrosi is either the most revered trousermaker in the world, or the world’s only true trousermaker. Who can say which? But it is known that one or both are certainly true. On internet forums, the name of Ambrosi is whispered in the same hushed, somber tones with which one speaks of the devil. It is said you cannot simply make an appointment with Antonio Ambrosi. One must first be introduced–by who, no one knows. And then, they say, you do not simply order a pair of trousers. Ambrosi decides what it pleases him to make. It’s said he is a true artist and will charge you a price befitting your character. If you are judged a truly dishonest man (the worst thing a man can be), Ambrosi will make you wait years before finally presenting you with the trousers he’s made for you, letting you then touch and feel them, so that you are absolutely convinced a finer pair of trousers does not exist in the world and never could, before he suddenly takes them away, cutting them to shreds with his monstrous, ancient shears right before your eyes. Ambrosi is no peddler of wares, no merchant of goods. He not interested in your money. He gives and takes exactly what you deserve. Ambrosi, you’ll hear, does not suffer fools.

You’d be forgiven for believing Ambrosi doesn’t even exist. It’s said he prefers it that way and no client who wishes to remain one will speak of him.
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post #5403 of 8977
1/31/13 at 12:36pm
Hank is not orange, despite what the lying-ass iPhone lens says. Actually brown, gold, burgundy, and green. Tie is olive with cream dots.

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post #5404 of 8977
1/31/13 at 12:36pm
Well, I certainly have my reasons for disliking it, but this isn't my thread. I will leave it to Foo.
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post #5405 of 8977
1/31/13 at 12:53pm
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Originally Posted by TRINI View Post

I think you've been hacked because someone went in and posted this:

+1. LOL. I like the literary tone of his posts, however. Makes me wish I had the time to do something like that and write about it afterwards. Even though he speaks of a romanticized Naples, a Naples that only exists in the minds of prospective tourists.

'They say Naples is so confoundingly, achingly beautiful that it drives outsiders mad. The Spanish Quarter, the city’s beating heart, vexes most of all. To wander its narrow, laundry-canopied streets is to come face-to-face with the Neapolitan soul.

... It draws you in as it repels you. It’s a city inside a city and yet the entire universe is not big enough for it.

...Yet, the most beguiling quality of Naples is that it beguiles with truth. Here, all facades are shattered or are certain to be. The only thing that thrives here is the primordial grit of human existence, what remains after glory has faded and is certain to never return. From time to time, the stuff of myth materializes from that grit and takes the form of cloth and thread.'
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post #5406 of 8977
1/31/13 at 1:10pm
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Originally Posted by dopey View Post

Knocked out of the park.

i am humbled. thanks, dopey.
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Originally Posted by mafoofan View Post

WTF. How many foo.gif s is that??!

how many indeed?
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post #5407 of 8977
1/31/13 at 1:17pm
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Originally Posted by sugarbutch View Post

Hank is not orange, despite what the lying-ass iPhone lens says. Actually brown, gold, burgundy, and green. Tie is olive with cream dots.
Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)


If you need to take photos with an iPhone, Matte Box is a pretty good app that has more powerful processing options than others, including adjusting the white balance! Which is what you need to get the color right (although I find iPhone really struggles with oranges and reds no matter what).

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post #5408 of 8977
1/31/13 at 1:28pm
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Originally Posted by mymil View Post

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Originally Posted by sugarbutch View Post

Hank is not orange, despite what the lying-ass iPhone lens says. Actually brown, gold, burgundy, and green. Tie is olive with cream dots. Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

If you need to take photos with an iPhone, Matte Box is a pretty good app that has more powerful processing options than others, including adjusting the white balance! Which is what you need to get the color right (although I find iPhone really struggles with oranges and reds no matter what).

Thanks. I'm actually using an app which can adjust white balance, but as you say, it makes oranges/reds look damned near fluorescent at times.
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post #5409 of 8977
1/31/13 at 1:29pm
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Originally Posted by patrickBOOTH View Post

Well, I certainly have my reasons for disliking it, but this isn't my thread. I will leave it to Foo.

Don't hold back. Y U NO LIKE?
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post #5410 of 8977
1/31/13 at 1:32pm
SB - shirt is pink?
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post #5411 of 8977
1/31/13 at 1:39pm
Nay, white. I'm sure that's an automatic deduction of at least one foo.gif but I refuse to accept that a white shirt with a suit is in bad taste.
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post #5412 of 8977
1/31/13 at 1:58pm
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Originally Posted by mafoofan View Post

Is the new blog working for you guys? I am screwing around with it.


Just reading it now- looking forward to the rest of your archived posts.  Trying to soak up as much info as possible about the best shops here in Naples.

PS demo is clear and easy to understand.

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post #5413 of 8977
1/31/13 at 2:05pm
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Originally Posted by sugarbutch View Post

Nay, white. I'm sure that's an automatic deduction of at least one foo.gif but I refuse to accept that a white shirt with a suit is in bad taste.

fair enough.

I think pink>white>blue in this particular case.
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post #5414 of 8977
1/31/13 at 3:51pm
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Originally Posted by mafoofan View Post

Wow, guys, that is a lot of stuff to look through. Will try to get to it this afternoon.

Related, I've put up a new blog post that explains how to stuff your square. See here. It was inspired by this thread. Hopefully it will help you all win some more foo points and generally score big in life.

You might notice my older blog entries are gone. Well, I finally got my domain back (www.tweedinthecity.com) and decided to revamp the whole site. It will take some time to transfer things.

I hope the square guidance is helpful. Click on the image gallery to see a diagram if the description doesn't make sense.

That's a cool diagram.

But that's basically a folded puff, except that you bend it like beckham. I'm not quite sure I fully grasp the superiority of this fold - at the end, it's a folded puff - but it gave us a cool foo diagram and it makes you happy.
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post #5415 of 8977
1/31/13 at 4:30pm
Foo is laying the groundwork for his new line of (silk) pocket circles. We are currently in the pre-buzz phase.
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