Fuck Star Wars, obviously, but I stand by my demand.

That's a point, those soldiers you get outside St James's Palace in London in the full ceremonial gear. I know that they're only really there for show, but presumably if someone pulled out a handgun and started waving it in the direction of the palace they'd be expected to do something. So, are they actually trained to use those swords or do they have a pistol hidden under their shiny helmets?

Not necessarily in that order.

But that would be the sensible order of behaviour.

Also the hat is a cannon.

Rifle or no rifle, I'd be using the sword.

I haz two suits and a tux.

I am just far too uncool to ever wear something like that.

Skondo wrote:

Not sartorial at all, but for those interested Metal Gear Solid 25th Anniversary t-shirts went on sale today at Uniqlo. In other news, I bought a new suit today. Three button, single breasted as it happens. I also bought a couple of shirts for work and a dictionary. Living in the fast lane.

Shirts with button sleeves or 'French' cuff? I moved to cuff links from button sleeves about five years ago but recently I have moved back to button sleeves. Major reason is the annoying noise my cuff links make when I am typing. Plus when I go on a business trip I always forget my cuff links and then have to go buy another pair from the 24 hour tesco

Fossildog wrote:

Shirts with button sleeves or 'French' cuff? I moved to cuff links from button sleeves about five years ago but recently I have moved back to button sleeves. Major reason is the annoying noise my cuff links make when I am typing. Plus when I go on a business trip I always forget my cuff links and then have to go buy another pair from the 24 hour tesco

I had the same problem with cufflinks when playing the cello but have now bought these which solve the problem.

I have to wear cufflinks as I wear dress shirts for work which don't generally come with button sleeves.

Of the c.100 people on an orchestral concert platform, on occasions when we're in tails, it's only really the male cellists (and perhaps bassists) who have any issue with cufflinks (5-10% of the orchestra).  Hardly worth changing the whole dress code to accommodate a handful of people with a very minor niggle, which probably doesn't really bother most of them anyhow.  Anyhow, it bothered me, so I fixed it.

Dress code is dictated by hundreds of years of tradition and the orchestral management.  Varies from gig to gig anyhow.  Sometimes these days I do gigs in jeans and t-shirt.

I like getting dressed up for gigs.  Anyhow, most people have some kind of uniform or dress code for work, whether they like it or not.  I never much liked having to wear a suit and tie to previous office jobs, especially as, unlike my current job, I often wasn't in a public-facing role.  That's far more idiotic than the practice of getting dressed up to perform for a public audience.

Neither does mine.  My cufflinks occasionally used to make a slight rattling noise against my cello when my left hand was in certain positions, which annoyed me but was probably not audible to anyone more than a couple of feet away.  My OP was simply a suggestion that a simple remedy to such a problem might be to procure some cotton/silk cufflinks instead.

Hey, a bear t-shirt.