Admiral Cod

'...when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it--a hard task whatever one may do---bu...

Autumn in Southern California trundles on through foggy mornings and warm, sunny afternoons. In recent weeks friends, colleagues, and client...

From the publisher: 'In an age of globalization with fashion trends that change by the day, the quality and workmanship of the great ...

A collection of black half-brogues, by G. J. Cleverley, auctioned in London, 14 Nov 2000 

Kirchhorst, 3/3/1948 "What interested me above all was the relationship of these substances to productivity. It has been my experien...

'Das Ideal des Dandys ist kein humanistisches Persönlichkeitsideal, sondern die perfekte Kultivierung eines Lebensstils. Das Leben als...

'And now I know how Joan of Arc felt' 

Source: Tommy Ton    

"There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.” Evelyn Waugh , Vile Bodies (1930)

Gentlemen Stand Up Please !

Eton College, 1960s 

“Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be a man, live in a manly way, die a ma...

  Passionate bright young thing (1913-1938-201?) David Bowie sat in an overstuffed armchair in his suite aboard the ship Ellinis , ret...