I sat in a pub in the former East Germany (they call it Middle Germany) and my friend told me that the man sitting behind us was a typical Stasi member (meaning he had been when there was one). 'How do you know?' I asked (although in German), and he replied that the suit was what they all wore...
I went to such a club in London with an American friend who had a reciprocal agreement from an American club. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the club. They asked me to join but I wasn't interested.
I'm off to a Royal Arch meeting this evening. This is a separate order in the UK but each Chapter is connected to a Lodge and bears the same name; although anyone qualified may join, whether a member of the same Lodge or nay.
Here is a link to the Pipe Club of London, which I am an Honorary Life Member of: http://www.pipecluboflondon.com/. Meeting was initially difficult after the smoking ban in pubs was introduced but the covered areas certain pubs have has made it possible now.
I have taken part in many pipe...
In England a dark lounge suit would be the minimum requirement. My visits to American lodges have been the cause of much confusion and jollity from both sides over the years. Sometimes the similarities just run out.
I have taken snuff for many years and started when I fist did English Civil War re-enactment at age 17, when I also started smoking a pipe. It gets round all smoking bans; although I have had the landlord of a pub wanting to see it once, presumably because he thought it might be bump.
Somewhere in this forum is the answer to this questiion but I have searched in vain and not found it: false links abound for some reason.
I have the makings of a wind trolley from an open road hat separate from the hat. Having never seen one in working condition and affixed to the hat, I have...
I must show this to my wife's mother, who is 85 and going strong (she even works still). Being Austrian, she would have worn this sort of clobber as a youngster.
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