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Prince of Paisley · May 18, 2011

Originally Posted by Sator

This is a bit old ....but....

I do on a DB coat. I see nothing wrong with doing the bottom button up on an SB lounge coat either. You should just do what looks good.

This is what Berhard Roetzel had to say recently:

http://mannerofman.blogspot.com/2010...d-roetzel.html
I agree - it's not a hard and fast rule. I will often button the second button on a suit/SC if it's a windy day - it's certainly a better look than having your jacket blow up like a skirt to reveal your shirt in such circumstances.

Generally though, I feel buttoning the 2nd button on a SB coat can make the wearer look a bit "stuffy", especially if one has a pocket square etc. as the added elements in the outfit already mean one runs the risk of looking fussy.

I agree though on a DB coat leaving a button undone often looks sloppy.

Tano · May 19, 2011

HB perth city sale; all chinos $229 and sweaters are $399. Is there another herringbone in Perth?

Tano · May 19, 2011

Didnt know there was a HB in 914 Hay St perth. HB London Crt is still full priced

blahman · May 19, 2011

Are the guys at Travelers Apparel still giving good deals on suits? Looking to buy about 5 (only one of them is going to be mine) and hopefully I can get an overcoat and sports coat.

Oh and what's with Lygon Street eateries. Are they seriously desperate lately or something? Was down there last week for dinner and while I didn't mind wait staff trying to call us into their restaurant, some of them were down right rude and pushy. No less than 4 occasions literally had waitstaff block us off to try get us into their place.

appolyon · May 19, 2011

Lygon Street is a shitehole (shite places with shite wait staff) ... two nice places and they are trotters and ti amo across the road.

Oh and Carlton Espresso is a good coffee place.

But that's it.

lennier · May 19, 2011

Originally Posted by blahman

Are the guys at Travelers Apparel still giving good deals on suits? Looking to buy about 5 (only one of them is going to be mine) and hopefully I can get an overcoat and sports coat.

Oh and what's with Lygon Street eateries. Are they seriously desperate lately or something? Was down there last week for dinner and while I didn't mind wait staff trying to call us into their restaurant, some of them were down right rude and pushy. No less than 4 occasions literally had waitstaff block us off to try get us into their place.
Lygon Street has unfortunately been terrible that way for some time. I refuse to go anywhere near it any more. I'm certain that they don't realise that for every 'extra' customer they think they get with those tactics they are not realising the 10+ that they are putting off.

__PG__ · May 19, 2011

Re : Lygon St. I never eat south of Grattan St. That way you avoid all the spruikers. My favourite 'cheap eat' is Papa Ginos.

EDIT : The exception is the Gelati store near the park.

RE : Travelers. I'm sure that in today's retail environment anyone would give you a great deal on 5 suits.

blahman · May 19, 2011

Originally Posted by __PG__

Re : Lygon St. I never eat south of Grattan St. That way you avoid all the spruikers. My favourite 'cheap eat' is Papa Ginos.

RE : Travelers. I'm sure that in today's retail environment anyone would give you a great deal on 5 suits.

By how much is reasonable though?

50% off the marked price + free alterations?

Prince of Paisley · May 19, 2011

Originally Posted by blahman

Oh and what's with Lygon Street eateries. Are they seriously desperate lately or something? Was down there last week for dinner and while I didn't mind wait staff trying to call us into their restaurant, some of them were down right rude and pushy. No less than 4 occasions literally had waitstaff block us off to try get us into their place.

Originally Posted by lennier

Lygon Street has unfortunately been terrible that way for some time. I refuse to go anywhere near it any more. I'm certain that they don't realise that for every 'extra' customer they think they get with those tactics they are not realising the 10+ that they are putting off.

This actually sounds very authentic Italian...all the bad restaurants in Rome have spruikers; it usually works on Americans.

meister · May 19, 2011

Originally Posted by jobro

One napkin for the collar, one for the lap.

I use the knapkin Italian style precisely because I am sick of the dry cleaning bills. The wife has her own version of events...

Any views whether this is gauche de max or simply being realistic like our Mediterranean friends....?

Does the restaurant Vesperi Siciliani still exist in Melbourne?

blahman · May 19, 2011

Originally Posted by __PG__

EDIT : The exception is the Gelati store near the park.

Is that the one with all the unique flavours including some very Asian?

Geoffrey Firmin · May 19, 2011

Originally Posted by meister

I use the knapkin Italian style precisely because I am sick of the dry cleaning bills. The wife has her own version of events...

Any views whether this is gauche de max or simply being realistic like our Mediterranean friends....?

Does the restaurant Vesperi Siciliani still exist in Melbourne?

If I go straight from work for a laksa, at one particular Canberra establishment, then yes, never had problems with Italian and as for gauche have seen many a man do it, if its any consolation.

Also this was posted on the Guardian web site today only a short blurb but the photos are great, well if you like that 1970's tastelessness.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty...on-in-pictures

ned kelly · May 19, 2011

Sicilian Vespers closed down some years ago. Shannon Bennett opened Vue De Monde in the same building and was a great success.After some years he moved to the CDB. A top pizza place called DOC opened and they are still doing a roaring trade.

meister · May 19, 2011

Originally Posted by Geoffrey Firmin

If I go straight from work for a laksa, at one particular Canberra establishment, then yes, never had problems with Italian and as for gauche have seen many a man do it, if its any consolation.

Certain foods just don't take to being eaten with knife and fork. When we used to eat hot pot in Sydney with colleagues we used to take our own bibs! Not a good look appearing with soup stains in front of the punters. Then AUD6 to clean the tie.

That Tommy Nutter won't be replicated on the Row for a few years. You have imposters like Boateng but none with his cache et panache...you know wha' I mean sorta fing?

Originally Posted by ned kelly

Sicilian Vespers closed down some years ago. Shannon Bennett opened Vue De Monde in the same building and was a great success.After some years he moved to the CDB. A top pizza place called DOC opened and they are still doing a roaring trade.

Thanks I went there years ago with a few friends and had a wonderful night with excellent food and the high point...served by a woman that could only have been Sicilian in the fullest sense...think poor man's Monica Belucci/Claudia Cardinale....bellissima!

Journeyman · May 19, 2011

Originally Posted by Jimbosaurus

Oh wow, I didn't quite realise how cheap the Herringbone warehouse sales were. Are the suits of the same quality that they sell in stores, just previous season stuff? If you can really get them for $599 then that just about answers my question about more affordable suit options.

Yes, exactly the same suits, usually left over from previous seasons.

At previous warehouse sales, there used to occasionally be some really nasty, made-in-Malta suits that felt like cardboard that Herringbone stocked about five years back and which kept on turning up at warehouse sale after warehouse sale, but thankfully I think that they're all gone now.

You can sometimes score amazing deals at the warehouse sales, so it's well worth popping in to have a look.

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