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The Official-ish DC Thread

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Okay, walk around Arboretum was fun but a bit slow, needed more exercise. Went for nice city ride after lunch. Decided to stop at Rhodeside Grill in Arlington to cap off a nice weekend with a Dark & Stormy. They make a good one.

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I know we discussed this last year but what are the best Dark & Stormy’s in DC? I’m still partial to Nick’s (pic from last summer). For a while I would only drink them in the Caribbean but that seems silly now.

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Okay, walk around Arboretum was fun but a bit slow, needed more exercise. Went for nice city ride after lunch. Decided to stop at Rhodeside Grill in Arlington to cap off a nice weekend with a Dark & Stormy. They make a good one.

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I know we discussed this last year but what are the best Dark & Stormy’s in DC? I’m still partial to Nick’s (pic from last summer). For a while I would only drink them in the Caribbean but that seems silly now.

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Any bar in Charleston, Sc will make you an awesome dark n stormy.
 

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Any bar in Charleston, Sc will make you an awesome dark n stormy.
I’ll go back to Cotton & Reed and try again once the D&S is officially back on their menu. Think I’ll try them at home now as well.

Ideally I would like to have one back in St. John!
 

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I thought they bought Sterling & Burke? Which explains why they're opening a store in DC. They've been doing trunk shows at Sterling & Burke for a couple years now. Makes sense
 

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Are they strictly shirt makers? Good to see an interesting shop open there rather than another Mall store.
 

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Are they strictly shirt makers? Good to see an interesting shop open there rather than another Mall store.

They are bespoke shirtmakers in London, so I assume service will be available. They start around $500, so I'm not sure there will be a huge market here where there are so few who work in finance. Their London store also has a lot of accessories, like socks, squares, cummerbunds, sweaters, etc. Depending on their square footage, I assume they will carry those as well as RTW shirts.
 

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This a curious time to open a clothing store devoted to traditional business clothing. The pandemic is likely to accelerate the trend toward telework and casual dress (except for StyleForum members). I wish them luck.
 

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This may be a totally uninformed opinion (hey, it's the internet), but there are thousands of corporate lawyers and management consultants and defense contractors and such in this area. All it takes is for a tiny percentage of them to be Paul Manafort-level profligate to keep a place selling $500 shirts alive.
 
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This a curious time to open a clothing store devoted to traditional business clothing. The pandemic is likely to accelerate the trend toward telework and casual dress (except for StyleForum members). I wish them luck.

I was thinking the same thing. It's not like we are flooding back into offices right now.

Who is buying $500 shirts ??

Not me. I'd just spill coffee on it or sweat out the collar here in our sticky climate.
 

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That makes sense. Ever tried anything from them?
Never tried them. If you look at sterling & Burke’s offerings now, you’ll see they offer a lot of stuff by budd rtw (Atleast branded budd). I had thought about trying budd for shirts but never got around to it & realized I prefer the lightness of Italian shirt collars.

correction: I am not sure if they were bought by budd or they were bought by the Benson & Clegg, the bespoke firm in London. I just remember thinking there was a connection between all 3.
 

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