Gentlemen: I want to share an embarrassing but important truth, and I hope this resonates and helps others. One day years ago, I came home from work really exhausted, and my five year-old daughter was waiting for me at the door as soon came in. I walk in and my daughter says that I’m so glad you’re home. I have a question for you. Can I ask you a question ? Yes go ahead; she says, how much do you make an hour? I get a little frustrated, I was like why are you asking me that? That’s a personal question? She said because I just wanna know. She just kept pestering me, like how much do you make an hour? So after like a couple of minutes of her asking, I said that’s fine if you need to know how much I make an hour, I make $100 an hour she puts her head down and she’s like man that’s a lot of money. Then she says dad can I have $50? I said did you just ask me how much I make so you can ask for money? I don’t work so hard so you can be selfish. You just go to your room and just go to bed. So then I go and to sit down kinda of cool down, and I start to think to myself like maybe I was a little too hard; she really doesn’t ask for money, maybe she really needed it. I go to her room; knock on her door, and I say hey sweetie are you up? And I tell her sweetie ,I’m sorry what do you need the money for? Here’s the 50 bucks. She gets super excited she takes the $50 and then goes under her pillow grabs some more money that she’s been saving up and starts to pull out these bills and put it on her bed. I got even more angry; like I can’t believe this, she asked me for more money and the she is just sitting there counting bills. I say, hey what do you need the money for because you already had money? She says, I didn’t have enough. I had 50 but I needed 100. This is when it hit me, she said can I buy an hour of your time? Could you come home early tomorrow so that we could have dinner? Gentlemen, the reason I tell you this story, is because our families want us for not just the stuff we can provide for them, they want men who can provide resources and their presence if you want to be in your kids memory tomorrow you have to be in their life today.

How much do we know about dining etiquette today, considering most people live in big cities and and the mad rush, do we forget about dining etiquette - either at someone's home (invited guest) or a restaurant?

This suit I hade made in 1995. It is the same design of Classic timeless menswear Ive worn since around 1980. In fact at Harold’s it was the only model we sold: 3 buttons with a 2 button roll, double forward pleats, cuffed trousers. It’s a design that basically harkens back at least 90 years. For accessories I chose a white with blue stripe CT shirt and a Brooks Brother’s goldish yellow tie, black captoes and a 1940’s Bulova watch. Regarding pleats- pleats roll in and out of the fashion world but have remained a staple of classic tiles style for a very long time. The forward pleat (see pic where a manufacturer mislabels reverse pleats provided) are my favorite. They are less common but when they armed nice and deep they have such a superior silhouette to the reverse pleats. They don’t look as bunched up especially when sitting. The secret for pleats to work is to never wear them too low on the waist. If I were having a new suit made I would keep with this timeless design. Very few stores still sell the 3/2 roll coat, J Press being one of the few. However for the double front pleat J Press sticks with the single. Ben Silver keeps the classic double. Ralph Lauren and a few manufacturers like Samuelsohn still has them as well.