Appropriate wear for restaurants
Jun 16th, 2015, 01:44 PM
#41
In my mind's eye, I see Julie Nixon wearing a royal blue trapeze dress from Nan Duskin with Castañer espadrilles.
And it is an absolute lie that French men don't wear shorts and flip-flops.
Philadelphia is flooded with French tourists right now walking around in shorts and flip-flops (with filthy, disgusting feet).
Thin
And it is an absolute lie that French men don't wear shorts and flip-flops.
Philadelphia is flooded with French tourists right now walking around in shorts and flip-flops (with filthy, disgusting feet).
Thin
Jun 16th, 2015, 09:09 PM
#43
I'm glad that I come from the west coast and especially Seattle. I dress like the average Seattleite.
Even in my professional job I never wore a tie (just "business casual"). I don't own a sport coat, just one 5 year old Brooks Bros. suit that I wear only once or twice a year for funerals or a few more formal weddings.
I don't know a restaurant in Seattle that will turn me away for wearing good old non-designer jeans. And in restaurants here one can usually tell those from the east coast by their being over dressed.
In Europe I've have never dressed differently and have had no problems, including going to the Berlin Philharmonie in jeans (in fact, their website specifically permits informal clothes - even T-shirts)
Even in my professional job I never wore a tie (just "business casual"). I don't own a sport coat, just one 5 year old Brooks Bros. suit that I wear only once or twice a year for funerals or a few more formal weddings.
I don't know a restaurant in Seattle that will turn me away for wearing good old non-designer jeans. And in restaurants here one can usually tell those from the east coast by their being over dressed.
In Europe I've have never dressed differently and have had no problems, including going to the Berlin Philharmonie in jeans (in fact, their website specifically permits informal clothes - even T-shirts)
Jun 17th, 2015, 03:05 AM
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are the freedom to wear baseball hats back to front, to display their hairy legs and armpits in smart restaurants and to wear tatty jeans at the opera.
Jun 17th, 2015, 05:18 AM
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Wow, I had to look that reference up, Thin. You totally threw me. I did not know Nan Duskin whatsoever.
I do get it, though, that Julie ended up with strong PHL retail ties.
Laundry has a FAB Royal Blue Trapeze dress right now showing on Bloomie's website.
Not quite Julie's style, but WOULD CERTAINLY BE ACCEPTED IN ANY ITALIAN RESTAURANT (just remembered the actual topic of this post).
I do get it, though, that Julie ended up with strong PHL retail ties.
Laundry has a FAB Royal Blue Trapeze dress right now showing on Bloomie's website.
Not quite Julie's style, but WOULD CERTAINLY BE ACCEPTED IN ANY ITALIAN RESTAURANT (just remembered the actual topic of this post).
Jun 17th, 2015, 10:08 AM
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Nan Duskin, formerly in Rittenhouse Square, was where all the socialites shopped back in the 60's, 70's, and 80's.
Unfortunately, it close about 20 years ago.
You would see Jackie Onassis, Mary Duke Biddle, Robin Duke, Veronica Hearst, Lenore Annenberg, Sally Poynter, etc. buying frocks in the shop years ago.
Muffy, Grafïn von Lindau, onced caused such a scandal in the shop when she took a pair of shears to a Chanel gown because she didn't like the way it looked on her!
"Let's just cut off these horrific sleeves...Oh, that looks so much better!"
Those were the days. Today's socialites are so boring.
Thin
Unfortunately, it close about 20 years ago.
You would see Jackie Onassis, Mary Duke Biddle, Robin Duke, Veronica Hearst, Lenore Annenberg, Sally Poynter, etc. buying frocks in the shop years ago.
Muffy, Grafïn von Lindau, onced caused such a scandal in the shop when she took a pair of shears to a Chanel gown because she didn't like the way it looked on her!
"Let's just cut off these horrific sleeves...Oh, that looks so much better!"
Those were the days. Today's socialites are so boring.
Thin
Jun 18th, 2015, 05:36 AM
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Hello dear Thin.
Tricia wasn't all that, if I recall correctly. Nor Julie. And I'm MIA because I'm living in pure heaven in France now and have ever so many more interesting things to do than explain to people how to get from CDG to their hotel in Paris. It's all thundering deer and bouncing bunnies at dusk and acacia blossoms and ripe abricots or grottoes to make confiture from and pillowy clouds and soft-running rivers and fouines and couleuvres in the pool and incredibly good and cheap healthcare and black, silent nights for good sleeping and local repas where people grill what they shot today and serve you glasses of wine they made and salades from their gardens and artisans who make jewellery from woolly mammoth tusks, like the wedding rings we just bought last week. A dream come finally true. Foods is just such fluff compared to this. I have no time for it. I'm busy living.
A bientôt. Grow bisons. Mimi knows how to find me if you want to, or if you want to come visit.
Tricia wasn't all that, if I recall correctly. Nor Julie. And I'm MIA because I'm living in pure heaven in France now and have ever so many more interesting things to do than explain to people how to get from CDG to their hotel in Paris. It's all thundering deer and bouncing bunnies at dusk and acacia blossoms and ripe abricots or grottoes to make confiture from and pillowy clouds and soft-running rivers and fouines and couleuvres in the pool and incredibly good and cheap healthcare and black, silent nights for good sleeping and local repas where people grill what they shot today and serve you glasses of wine they made and salades from their gardens and artisans who make jewellery from woolly mammoth tusks, like the wedding rings we just bought last week. A dream come finally true. Foods is just such fluff compared to this. I have no time for it. I'm busy living.
A bientôt. Grow bisons. Mimi knows how to find me if you want to, or if you want to come visit.
Jun 18th, 2015, 09:53 AM
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Oh, Melen, your life reads like a Michel Houellebecq novel, except there is no dead sex fiend floating in your swimming pool.
Good luck to you.
Check in with us every once in a while.
I could never live in rural France.
Thin
Good luck to you.
Check in with us every once in a while.
I could never live in rural France.
Thin
Jun 18th, 2015, 10:26 AM
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I think you're right, Thin, that you wouldn't be comfortable here, but I sure can be. And we're not sure what is going to be floating in our swimming pool next, but it's probably a hedgehog. They flock to swimming pools like mosquitoes to my husband (also a Sidwell grad). They can't climb up the ladder, so they just swim around the perimeter until they're exhausted and you haul them out. They're adorable. We take them up the hill and leave them in the woods so maybe they won't come back, or find someone else's swimming pool.
I will consider checking in occasionally. But really, the internet plays only a teeny part in our lives these days. No TV, no internet, no radio, just mercilessly beautiful landscapes, cooking with recipes involving Mara strawberries and freshly shot pheasant, picking out paint colors for the second floor of the house, finding the right antique to house our crockery in the kitchen, watching the hawks floating above, measuring the corn that was 1" a month ago and is now over my head, chatting every night at "our" bar with our neighbours, attending local repas...I could bore you silly with all the wonderful things that our life is made of now, but I'll shut up, as it's almost 8:30 pm here and the sun is starting to set, and the sky is violet and pink and yellow and there's a small wind blowing, and in the background at the bar is a gentle intoned French banter about plumbing. One simply cannot imagine what it's like to be here as a resident. Unless one is me.
Not that we're suffering for good food, but we could use a good cheesesteak!
I will consider checking in occasionally. But really, the internet plays only a teeny part in our lives these days. No TV, no internet, no radio, just mercilessly beautiful landscapes, cooking with recipes involving Mara strawberries and freshly shot pheasant, picking out paint colors for the second floor of the house, finding the right antique to house our crockery in the kitchen, watching the hawks floating above, measuring the corn that was 1" a month ago and is now over my head, chatting every night at "our" bar with our neighbours, attending local repas...I could bore you silly with all the wonderful things that our life is made of now, but I'll shut up, as it's almost 8:30 pm here and the sun is starting to set, and the sky is violet and pink and yellow and there's a small wind blowing, and in the background at the bar is a gentle intoned French banter about plumbing. One simply cannot imagine what it's like to be here as a resident. Unless one is me.
Not that we're suffering for good food, but we could use a good cheesesteak!
Jun 18th, 2015, 11:21 AM
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