July 2012
154 posts
Drake's Diary: Actors and Their Clothes →
drakes-london:
In her revealing autobiography Edith Head’s Hollywood, the 8-time Academy Award winner and master costumier Edith Head fascinatingly describes her 58-year career: from Wings, a 1927 Paramount film starring Clara Bow and Gary Cooper, to her last project, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, with Steve…
voxsartoria: G. Bruce Boyer in Cigar Aficionado →
voxsart:
From about 1994 to 1999, G. Bruce Boyer wrote a fine series of articles on classicly tailored clothes and accessories that ran in the magazine, Cigar Aficionado.
Some of them are dated, particularly the ones referencing particular retailers or tailors, but much is still relevant…
voxsartoria: Savile Row Jargon →
voxsart:
The close community of the journeyman tailor was forged through generations of hardship, of long hours, miserable pay and discrimination of all kinds. Taking refuge among themselves, the tailors developed a private language almost incomprehensible to outsiders. Some of their expressions have…
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
– Winston Churchill (via voxsart)
“I think that’s really what it’s all about today. Clothes today have to be...”
– Timothy Everest (via voxsart)
