• Hi, I am the owner and main administrator of Styleforum. If you find the forum useful and fun, please help support it by buying through the posted links on the forum. Our main, very popular sales thread, where the latest and best sales are listed, are posted HERE

    Purchases made through some of our links earns a commission for the forum and allows us to do the work of maintaining and improving it. Finally, thanks for being a part of this community. We realize that there are many choices today on the internet, and we have all of you to thank for making Styleforum the foremost destination for discussions of menswear.
  • This site contains affiliate links for which Styleforum may be compensated.
  • We would like to welcome House of Huntington as an official Affiliate Vendor. Shop past season Drake's, Nigel Cabourn, Private White V.C. and other menswear luxury brands at exceptional prices below retail. Please visit the Houise of Huntington thread and welcome them to the forum.

  • STYLE. COMMUNITY. GREAT CLOTHING.

    Bored of counting likes on social networks? At Styleforum, you’ll find rousing discussions that go beyond strings of emojis.

    Click Here to join Styleforum's thousands of style enthusiasts today!

    Styleforum is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

Apology

Alexander Kabbaz

Distinguished Member
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
1,276
Reaction score
12
Steve B. I am not expressing a gripe. I was merely trying to explain my lack of posts. If you took this as a "public complaint", please accept my most sincere public apology. Not only do I have the highest respect for your volunteer work with the Style Forum, I also believe that it is entirely within your pervue to make determinations as to what you consider commercial and what is not. However, the bulk of my time these days is spent as an educator. I teach fine art and I teach the making of fine clothing. I remain to this day quite bewildered that you made the determination you did, namely that my hundreds of replies to members shirt questions were commercial in nature. As you are well aware, I entered the Style Forum solely for the purpose of defending myself against what many considered to be an unwarranted personal attack against me. By so entering I was barraged with questions about the making of custom shirts. As of today, that barrage consists of 361 members who have read the articles I wrote on shirtmaking and another 100 or so private e-mails containing further shirtmaking questions which I have answered privately. The enjoyment I get from this lies not in the benefit derived by my wallet, but as so eloquently expressed at Ask Andy's by Spalla, the overall benefit to the future of the art of bespoke clothing. It is my belief that the more knowledgeable the consumer, the better they will drive the makers to perform. That can only benefit the bespoke arts. I would have thought that as one who has so heavily invested his life in researching this field, such would have been obvious to you.
 

TimelessRider

Senior Member
Joined
Oct 27, 2003
Messages
566
Reaction score
0
Welcome back. Does this mean we'll be enjoying reading your posts on this forum once again?
 

Alias

Distinguished Member
Joined
Oct 7, 2003
Messages
1,661
Reaction score
319
Huh? Did I miss something? I wadn't aware of any gripe Steve B. had with you. At any rate, the trolls are gone, so this place is a lot friendlier for it.

But you could have at least put this into a private email.
 

Carlo

Distinguished Member
Joined
Aug 22, 2003
Messages
1,021
Reaction score
5
It takes a big man to publicly apologize.

Now that everyone is friends again let's get back to eliminating poor fashion sense in the world - our true goal :)

Good to seeya bud.
 

Steve B.

Go Spurs Go
Joined
Mar 2, 2002
Messages
10,286
Reaction score
134
To All:

Alex and I have sorted out our differences, which were due primarily to misperceptions and miscommunications by both parties.

He was, is, and hopefully will be, a valued member of this Forum.
 

Featured Sponsor

How important is full vs half canvas to you for heavier sport jackets?

  • Definitely full canvas only

    Votes: 55 35.5%
  • Half canvas is fine

    Votes: 60 38.7%
  • Really don't care

    Votes: 17 11.0%
  • Depends on fabric

    Votes: 27 17.4%
  • Depends on price

    Votes: 28 18.1%

Forum statistics

Threads
505,161
Messages
10,579,017
Members
223,882
Latest member
anykadaimeni
Top