Hi Adrian, there is so much to consider when deciding to get or avoid having tattoos. Tattoos are very much a polarising issue, and I'm please it all worked out well for you both and you both were singing from the same hymn sheet on that issue🙂 lovely to hear from you again 👍🙂
Chris I have purchased most of my ties from thrift stores. All are silk mostly Brooks Brothers for less than $2. And I have also found great Holland and Holland and Purdey ties from eBay for around $20 each that retail for $90. Great video keep up the good work Chris and Ash. Cheers Ron
Excellent questions with equally well thought through responses. Your respective military backgrounds add a more rounded dimension to all of the topics covered. I can also endorse your mention of the important influence of our elders and how they always presented themselves. I had one grandfather born in 1898 and the other in 1902. Both served in the military and both carried the dress code disciplines drilled into them for the rest of their long lives. I vividly remember one of them showing me how to tie a Windsor knot when I was very young. I was the only boy in my school to use it as my everyday standard. 😊
Hi John, glad you have enjoyed the video and thankyou for your continued support. Family influences are so important and a lot of people nowadays do not have someone in their life to show them these skills anymore. Hence the success of our channels, where we can impart our knowledge to others🙂
Another wonderful video, thank you both. I don't have any tattoos, the permanent nature of them ultimately put me off. I've been very tempted over the decades but when I look back at what I was going to have done at various times of my life I'm relieved I decided not to. Had I succumbed I'd now have a very blurred and saggy Spiderman, a Celtic band (I'm not of Celtic heritage), a Knight, and finally the lead singer of The Bangles. As much as I had a crush on her I don't think having her on my arm was a wise long term option! Woollen and Cashmere jumpers are the only types in my wardrobe, I don't buy a new one often, maybe once every couple of years but I can't remember the last time I got rid of one. I make an effort to handwash them in wool wash and store them in sealed moth proof bags with a pleasant smelling moth repellent sachet. Some of them are over 30 years old now and still just fine. Kind regards, Rob
Hi Rob, lovely to hear from you again, glad you enjoyed the video. Thankfully you resisted having a tattoo, by the sound of it 🙂 I an very much the same as you, I tend to stick to 100% natural fibres (Marino wool, lambswool, cashmere, alpaca, cotton or mohair etc), but on the occasion I took a chance and paid the price as mentioned in the video. It sounds like you take care of your woollen's with care and attention. I tend to use red cedar oil as a moth repellent and never had a problem with moths yet, but there is always the chance, I have been considering moth proof bags - If you don't me asking, what brand or where did you get yours from?
I’ll admit that in my personal experience, visible tattoos and piercings can work as a way to straddle both the liberal and conservative worlds I choose (forced) to live in. For example my nose/cartilage piercings won’t look out of place if I’m a dance club in NYC but because they’re platinum and not steel I feel comfortable wearing them with a tux to opera at the Met the following night. Basically, there’s a way to look trashy and there’s a way to look traditional. It’s all in the presentation. Of course, it’s all in the eyes of the beholder. A subject close to my heart.
Hi there, great to hear from you again, I have to say that whether people like it or not tattoos and even visible piercings are common place in society and the more common place they become the more accepted they are. It is a very polarising subject and as you state is is in the eyes of the beholder. I mentioned that if you were going to have these things then you need to give them serious consideration rather than get them on a whim. I have known some absolute gentlemen you happen to have tattoos and I have none some absolute horrendously vile and arrogant people dressed in very expensive cloths. I know who I'd rather be around. Having the clothes doesn't make a person a gentlemen, its a person behaviour to others, there ethics, morale's and treatment of others that counts. Glad you enjoyed the video. 👍🙂
