Styleforum Meetup Bay Area San Francisco SF, Hosted By Ghurka - Wednesday January 29

[eddiemczee]

Does anyone know what the cheese with the Indian spice was? That was delicious.

Real talk, I want to know as well. Eating that cheese was like eating an entire meal in my mouth.

 

[IRKSM]

I think as the pictures for the meetup make their way out of the woodwork I will retain my title as king of uncomfortable smiles...

 

[clarinetplayer]



Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

All the usual suspects!

 

[sugarbutch]

I forgot to mention that this meetup featured my first in-the-cloth encounter with Steed tailoring. Very nice...

 

[clarinetplayer]

All these fantastic San Francisco SF meetups....jealousy.

If we ever had a SF meetup in Michigan, it would look like this:

Rather than sipping champagne at the Ghurka store, we'd be drinking some beer, probably from some Grand Rapids brewery, in the Stormy Kromer factory in the U.P.

 

[comrade]



Does anyone know what the cheese with the Indian spice was? That was delicious.

I can't recall its name in English, but in Nepali it is "Yochpooy". It is reputed to be a key condiment in the Ghurka regimental Mess, and contributory to their legendary ferocity in battle. God Save the Queen.

 

[comrade]

Thanks again Gus for a great Meet-Up. And special thanks for Kim Roberts and his team for hosting
at the very elegant Ghurka store. I am flattered that Kim recognized me after these many years, as I was
a customer of the late and lamented Swaine & Adney in San Francisco , where Kim was a key player.
I still have several treasured items from that store that await my decision on liposuction.

 

[brillopad]

Great meetup! And good turnout, too - I think we saw just about every one of the usual suspects.



















Here's Gus' 30-year-old Examiner No. 2 - still looks great!

 

[IRKSM]

Yep title retained

 

[Gus]

If you Google images of "Ghurka SF" a lot of pics from the event appear. What a handsome looking group

I also saw that Mark's Steed suit made it onto Steeds blog and Twitter feed. Great looking. I especially like the color and vest details. No one makes vests like the Brits, especially Savile Row.

 

[Gus]

Here are some more blog photos of the event. Damn, there are some good photographers among us. Well done guys.

http://edwinzee.tumblr.com/

http://fromsqualortoballer.com/

http://omgerald.tumblr.com/

http://steedbespoketailors.tumblr.c...e-is-a-nice-shot-of-one-of-our-clients-in-san

 

[eddiemczee]

Been pretty busy, but finally got around to posting some of my meetup photos. You can see them all on my blog, but here are a select few:

 

[Gus]

Why is Ian looking so dreamy-eyed? Wishing for the No.2 Express Bag in pebble grain leather?

 

[eddiemczee]

At the start of the event, I saw this well-dressed man. I loved the simplicity of his outfit and asked if I could take his photo.
Afterwards, he told me that he was visiting from Japan and that he had stumbled upon the meetup on accident. He seemed a little embarrassed that he was dressed more casually than everyone else and even showed me a photo on his phone of himself wearing a fantastic suit earlier that day.
I told him that he was the best dressed man here and he smiled, bowed, and thanked me.

 

[IRKSM]

Why is Ian looking so dreamy-eyed? Wishing for the No.2 Express Bag in pebble grain leather?

actually people kept taking photos of me before I had time to fix my bouffant hair and finish chewing my food. the look in my eye says "why are you keeping me away from the fantastic cheese"
I told henry that I vow to look less homeless for the next meetup, I might even were one of my 3 grenadine ties