The men's dress style thread..

[T4tomo]

The old City saying is "Never brown in Town" But I'd make an exception for oxblood.

That's an very outdated saying now, and he isn't in town or city....he's in a rather large nuclear plant on the Cumbrian coast

 

[Time Waster]

I've been under one of those showers. They are bloody freezing and have a tendency to flood the lab.

Fortunately we don't use HF any more, I'm not keen on spilling any of that.

Quite! Doesn't take much to cause a lot of harm. Think I'd prefer the cyanide they used in my first university. It was in the other lab but we had to learn the antidote as there was nothing stopping it in gaseous form reaching us. Besides some class mates might have been using it in our lab but for the fortuitous chance of not picking that project out of the hat.

Which is best, death by HF or cyanide? I'm guessing quicker cyanide.

 

[Time Waster]

Not quite nuclear but close. Still brown shoes came in years ago. You can even wear converse with sharp suits, I've seen it on the box!

You know you're old when you remember the days of CRT TVs and then actually being a big box. They're more a kind of frame than a box.

 

[winjim]

Quite! Doesn't take much to cause a lot of harm. Think I'd prefer the cyanide they used in my first university. It was in the other lab but we had to learn the antidote as there was nothing stopping it in gaseous form reaching us. Besides some class mates might have been using it in our lab but for the fortuitous chance of not picking that project out of the hat.

Which is best, death by HF or cyanide? I'm guessing quicker cyanide.

We do use cyanide but we don't have the antidote to hand. I guess you could swig down some of the disposal mixture but I don't know how toxic that stuff is itself.

 

[Time Waster]

I can't remember the details but you had to mix two chemicals together something like 2 to 1, stir to mix them and drink quickly. The lecturers telling us this said if you hear a shout of cyanide you just take both bottles and swig from both at the same time. They said it'll mix in your stomach and any delay to mix could kill you. The two chemicals if you drank too much of one of them would just make you ill which was preferable to death.

They also laid down the riot act about calling cyanide without a release. Apparently it once happened and one person made themselves a bit sick taking the antidote without needing to.

No idea what the antidote chemicals were but I seem to recall one was iron based, could be wrong though.

 

[winjim]

No idea what the antidote chemicals were but I seem to recall one was iron based, could be wrong though.

Sounds the same as the stuff we use for disposal, two solutions mixed together and it works by forming an insoluble complex with iron. Can't remember the exact composition off the top of my head.

 

[Time Waster]

No time for the composition we got told. Two typical reagent bottles on a rectangular wooden tray on the back shelf of truly ancient wooden lab bench. One on every bench. No instructions just something about what they were. Not very appetising anyway.

Not as bad as my second university department. The guy showing me around pointed out the lab he works in, the MOMBE lab in the semiconductor part of the department. A huge server type of thing in a big and wide cabinet. That was the computer the £1.5m sensor setup to detect a leak. The lecturer told us that if you're walking past it and the alarm goes off don't run. Just sit down and wait to die. Apparently a release of the chemicals used in there would take out most people in the city. Probably exaggeration but apparently any release would certainly be involving fire and rescue in full, positive pressure suits! I figure anything that requires such kit I prefer to avoid.

 

[Accy cyclist]

The old City saying is "Never brown in Town" But I'd make an exception for oxblood.

These days it's very rare to see anyone wearing smart trousers and polished shoes or boots, often making me wonder if anyone bothers to make even a slight effort, so why fret over old rules like never wear brown in town. Yesterday I wore mid brown tweed trousers that had a crease in the front, rather than a flat casual front. With those I wore a pair of black Loake 1880 Chelsea boots. I mentioned the crease in the pants as to me they gave a hint of formality to slightly casual tweed, making them compatible with smart/slightly casual black boots. With that combination I wore a wool mid grey with burgundy hints, below the knee length coat, a rust brown fedora and a roll neck jersey 99 percent similar in colour to my fedora hat.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I bought two items of gold jewelry today. The top one is a Victorian tie pin made of 18 carat gold with a diamond and a pearl. I reckon both were bargains! I paid £150 for the 2.8 grams pin. Seeing as 18 carat gold is around £38 a gram, 2.8 grams is around £110 and with that not too tiny diamond and the quite small pearl this must be worth about £200 at scrap value prices, so sold on fleabay, not that I buy to sell, maybe it'd fetch 3 to 4 hundred quid. The tie pin has a tiny hallmark, verified by my goldsmith/jeweler friend, who said himself it's quite a bargain. I didn't buy the pin off him. It's from an antiques shop in town. The second item is a 3 grams, 9 carat charm, which I got for £55. 9 carat gold is around £19 a gram so that's not a bad price, seeing as I've seen 9 carat, 3 grams gold football boot charms online for considerably more than £55, with the cheapest being £95.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/289...ow-gold-3d?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&ut

 

[Accy cyclist]

I'll wear the boot charm on either of my watch chains.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I've just ordered this hat. Not on this site, but on one that had one left and that was in my XL/61cms size, which they were selling for £23.00 including P&P. It's the same make as the rust brown and the teal one I bought the other week. Both hats have been fine, attracting quite a few compliments. Since buying a few rabbit fur fedoras I've always thought (been told to think maybe) of them as better quality to wool fur, but I've found that the rabbit fur ones do tend to lose a bit of shape mainly on the brim, whereas the wool ones have so far kept their shape perfectly.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/223908387618?_trkparms=amclksrc=ITM&aid=1110013&algo=HOMESPLICE.SI

 

[Hover Fly]

I’ve just bought some dead stock K shoes from a charity shop. Formal types, black and brown and some a bit less formal, I left the brogues for someone else, partly cos I couldn’t carry them, but mainly because of what @Moon bunny would have done if I had come in with brogues.

Had the dates decoded at the weekend, between 1982 and 1987!

 

[Accy cyclist]

I've been 'into' argyle socks for the last few years. I have a a pair of knee length bamboo fibre ones. They're good, but I want some wool ones for the colder weather. I like the pattern of these.

https://arbonsocks.co.uk/product/ar...=light-grey-olive-pink&attribute_pa_sock-size

 

[Accy cyclist]

Mmm, I wonder where she got that quilted jacket from? 🤔 I have an olive green and a black Barbour, similar to it, but not with the stripes like her's. I know it'll be a women's one not unisex, but I could easily wear that! I've 'googled' it, but I can't find it for sale.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/...yground-Princess-Wales-speeds-round-BMX-track

 

[stephec]

Mmm, I wonder where she got that quilted jacket from? 🤔 I have an olive green and a black Barbour, similar to it, but not with the stripes like her's. I know it'll be a women's one not unisex, but I could easily wear that! I've 'googled' it, but I can't find it for sale.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/...yground-Princess-Wales-speeds-round-BMX-track

All you've got to do is marry a prince and Barbour will probably make you a special one off of whatever you want.