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  1. Alex Oviatt

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Union City--A modern film noir tale of murder and paranoia set amid the grit of a 1950s industrial city based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich (Rear Window). With Dennis Lipscomb and Deborah Harry with a walk on part by a very young Pat Benatar. Good hats.
  2. Alex Oviatt

    Vintage Jewelery in LA

    How high end? There are several great estate jewelry stores in town (Frances Klein in Berverly Hills is very good) and very expensive and lots of the smaller jewelry stores have an estate section--Arnold's Jewelry on Lake in Pasadena has beautiful vintage/estate pieces and they are great for...
  3. Alex Oviatt

    What are you wearing today??

    GREAT look, Bugsy--well done!
  4. Alex Oviatt

    philosophies of the late 1940s

    Well, I don't know if this is a philosophy of the late forties but it certainly is a philosopher writing in the forties: L'âge de raison (The Age of Reason) is a 1945 novel by Jean Paul Sartre. It is the first part of the trilogy Les chemins de la liberté, the road to freedom--very interesting...
  5. Alex Oviatt

    Liqueurs We Love

    Drambuie does it for me and can be cut with whisky for a Rusty Nail if something less sweet is required. Cointreau is probably the most useful and the one to have if you are only stocking one liqueur in your bar. Just thinking about it makes me want to have a Sidecar. There are some wonderful...
  6. Alex Oviatt

    Goodwill buys

    No, an even earlier label of his the shows a bowler and a walking stick--from the 80s. I bought several of his things back then at the Robinson's in Beverly Hills and still have a pair of white flannels. The suit I got is exactly as described by Patrick Bateman, primary character in Bret Easton...
  7. Alex Oviatt

    Goodwill buys

    Just scored a navy blue pin stripe double breasted suit at the Goodwill in Downtown LA. By Alan Flusser, it is a classic drape suit, with all of the classic/bespoke details he is noted for. Fits very well, minor alterations may be required--a seriously good suit. All for $20!
  8. Alex Oviatt

    Interesting cocktail website

    There is a great website that I ran across that has several good posts on cocktails (Moscow Mules, etc.) including today's post on the Savoy Cocktail Book: http://leslieblythemiller.wordpress.com/ Interesting stuff!
  9. Alex Oviatt

    Vintage Town nominees

    In my neck of the woods, I think that South Pasadena, Sierra Madre and Monrovia all have a very vintage feel. You could easily see a 1947 Cadillac drive down the street and think nothing of it (except, of course to wonder who the lucky devil is that has a '47 Caddie....). As for a nice...
  10. Alex Oviatt

    Long Oval Solutions: To Stretch, or go up a Size?

    I, too, am a 7 1/2 LO and have had hats successfully blocked/stretched to a LO at Baron's Hats in Burbank, CA.
  11. Alex Oviatt

    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    A wee drop of Lagavulin and water. Here in Los Angeles, when it drops to 60 degrees--especially if it is wet--it means that it is time for full winter comfort food and drink, as it will be back up in the 80s before you know it. Lagavulin, with its dense, smokey, peaty notes is the perfect...
  12. Alex Oviatt

    Cologne and perfume

    I am MAN enough today--I have been wearing Knize Ten and I always forget what a deeply satisfying scent this is. Old school, old world and masculine as all get out.....
  13. Alex Oviatt

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Last night it was the Rock Follies--a real slice of London circa 1976: http://www.therockfollies.co.uk/
  14. Alex Oviatt

    Grey flannels

    Similarly, Carroll & Co. out west offers the same and they are very good, indeed.
  15. Alex Oviatt

    Vintage Cologne

    Two great Vintage men's colognes are Caron's Pour un Homme and the original Dunhill for Men--both from 1934. Old school but timeless!
  16. Alex Oviatt

    Lounger Spotted?

    Some mornings, on my commute in to work I take surface streets instead of the freeway. Occasionally, if my timing is right, I see a man waiting for a bus on Huntington Drive in South Pasadena wearing a hat. Not just any hat, but beautiful, proper Fedora Lounge quality hats. Today’s panama was...
  17. Alex Oviatt

    Men's Dress Hat Stores, in New York City.

    JJ's provides great service and a wide selection. Great staff. No bargains, but still good value.
  18. Alex Oviatt

    Poll: What is your favorite pocket square fold?

    Apples and oranges...... Are we talking favorite fold for a linen square with a suit? Silk square with tweeds? Very different story!
  19. Alex Oviatt

    Beginning drinking

    Dewars!

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