Beauty & Style Linen

[Caesar]

Seriously, this is the greatest material known to man. I'm sitting in the shade in a linen shirt and pants, having a G&T and feeling the cool breeze waft around my nether regions.

You never see anyone wearing it in Australia though. Why isn't it more popular?

 

[Gough]

Because it is a pain in the arse to iron and wrinkles to easily. Totally agree with your sentiment though.

 

[mellowyellow]

feels nice looks shit

 

[J_Moore]

more like feels nice looks pimping.

Like Gough said, though - the ironing is a bitch.

 

[nicky]

Silk is my favourite. It's easy to wash but my tip is to get patterned silk as it wont show up any water stains if you're clumsy like me with spilling things.

 

[Glenno23]

Because it is a pain in the arse to iron and wrinkles to easily. Totally agree with your sentiment though.

I don't see a problem with this...... unless you're female?

 

[Caesar]

I don't find it too difficult to iron. If you don't spin it too much, don't leave it sitting in the machine, and then iron it slightly damp it's pretty easy to deal with.

Agree about it wrinkling like a bitch though. As soon as you sit down it's creased all over the place.

 

[grizzlym]

You sound like a character from a Graham Greene novel, Caesar.

 

[J_Moore]

You sound like a character from a Graham Greene novel, Caesar.

Agreed. But Graham Greene characters are the best kind of characters.

 

[bunsen burner]

Can we have some pics please. Are we talking Miami Vice like shit here?

 

[The Speaker]

Seriously, this is the greatest material known to man. I'm sitting in the shade in a linen shirt and pants, having a G&T and feeling the cool breeze waft around my nether regions.

You never see anyone wearing it in Australia though. Why isn't it more popular?

If I make a thread on the history of linen will you create a history sub-board?

 

[Poseidon]

You're a strange man, Caesar.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Hello Sailor.

 

[Caesar]

You sound like a character from a Graham Greene novel, Caesar.

I wish. They usually had swimming pools.

 

[grizzlym]

I wish. They usually had swimming pools.

I lived in Cairo many years ago. One time I was kicking back on the Red Sea at some town, which is now a resort, but back then they'd just started construction with all the Russian mafia money. So I was I sitting at this bar, drinking G&Ts, feeling very Colonial wearing a linen short. After quite a few G&Ts, I looked carefully at the bottle of gin behind the bar. It looked like Gordons, very much like Gordons, but through my blurry eyes I could make out that it was in fact Dordon's Dry Din. The local counterfeit hooch... Sick as a dog later on.

 

[Tiff]

Silk is my favourite. It's easy to wash but my tip is to get patterned silk as it wont show up any water stains if you're clumsy like me with spilling things.

Try swallowing.

 

[Messenger]

Flannelette > Linen.

Wearing a fedora too, Caesar?

 

[Caesar]

I feel like I have given an incorrect impression of myself.

 

[Messenger]

I feel like I have given an incorrect impression of myself.

What on earth makes you say that?

 

[grizzlym]

 

[rustyg70]

Seriously, this is the greatest material known to man. I'm sitting in the shade in a linen shirt and pants, having a G&T and feeling the cool breeze waft around my nether regions.

You never see anyone wearing it in Australia though. Why isn't it more popular?

You obviously don't have a mirror in your house.

 

[zimma]

I came in expecting a topic on bedsheets for some reason...

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

http://www.magnificentbastard.com/features/linen-it-sucks

Relevant

 

[J_Moore]

Linen pants are perhaps a bit borderline. Australians should not be questioning the utility of linen shirts, however.

 

[Caesar]

I like linen pants because it means I can avoid wearing shorts.