Hitting 40 years of marriage on the 25th. This is what I came home to after Rotary this morning: Avocado toast. Fresh fruits and three eggs ready to cook as my wife leaves for her job! Little things matter

Hello Gentlemen. I have been wearing ties since I was in the 7th grade. I currently have about 300+ ties. From dress, holiday, Disney and sport ties I have quite a collection. Then it happened, I learned to tie a bow tie and the collection grows. Am I the only one with a sizable tie collection? I believe the oldest tie I have is from a department store called Gimbels. Any one remember that store? Pictured is my Gimbles tie with my laundry number from boarding school.

I’ve spoken many times about the three most conservative colors of shirts: Blue, white and pink. This seems to confuse a lot of guys especially those who overlook pink. They are conservative in the right sense of that word in that they conserve precious currency because they are virtually interchangeable in terms of combining them with suits, sport coats, trousers, and ties. Every other color of solid shirt is more of a fringe color that is severely limited by comparison. The only combos to steer away from are same colors of a different tones eg some blue shirts compete with some blue outfits etc. There are some combos, however that do the opposite and blend exceptionally well with one of these three colors. For example in ascending order with a brown outfit the lowest might be white, then blue, with the best being pink with brown. Conversely with certain shades of grey these three conservative colors might reverse with pink being the least, then blue, and white being the best. But irrespectively, any of the three still are interchangeable if that makes sense-and thus are conservative. Today I grabbed my BB linen plaid jacket; a CT twill French cuff pink shirt; MTM (hand me down from pop) medium brown herringbone wool trousers; Seaward and Stern ancient madder silk foulard tie; reversible pocket square; brown argyle socks; AE shell cordovan brogues in British tan; Caravelle Bulova watch.

Enjoying being near with Anton ( now 3 m) in front of TV watching the PRIDE-WEEKEND gathering in Finland Tom OOTD white t-shirt yellow corduroy trousers grey socks rainbow-child picnic OOTD rainbow kick pants rainbow blouse A warm and powerful event full with respect and love, with 100 000+ participants in Helsinki.

Casual summer OOTD light blue cotton shirt unbuttoned medium blue linen-silk sports jacket navy blue jeans dark blue leather oxford shoes some of our flowers in front fragrant white peonies day lilies in bud bluebells in bud coralbells