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To The Manner Reborn

I love lists. Gatsby had one dated September 12, 1906 written on the fly leaf of a ragged copy of Hopalong Cassidy. His read:

Rise from bed……………………………………………… 6.00 A.M.
Dumbell exercise and wall-scaling…………………….. 6.15-6.30 ”
Study electricity, etc……………………………………… 7.15-8.15 [...]

Interjections for a Monday Morning.

I remember asking my Father what an interjection is.

“F***! Tomorrow’s Monday,” was his reply. Not used to hearing my father use profanity, I was startled and then amused. And it certainly stuck in my memory.

So, if your sentiment is roughly equivalent to my father’s feelings about a Monday morning, here’s a little gem of a [...]

In Mufti

(photo via the excellent blog: The Hollywood Art and used without permission. If there are objections, please let me know and I will take it down immediately.)

I’m just curious. Do you dress on your off hours? Those hours when you are “out of uniform” and in civilian clothes? Or what should be civilian clothes, in [...]

Luxe, calme et volupté.* That sounds wonderful. In today’s world, I find that there is a disturbing lack of all of the above. Maybe it’s the speed at which we live our daily lives, multitasking during each measured moment of the day and well into our nights. Whatever the reason, I think that we’ve lost something that our parents and grandparents took for granted. Not just an ease in society or how to throw an intimate dinner for six or write a thank you note, but an everyday elegance. Easy and Elegant Life is my attempt to define what makes up an elegant existence and to pass along a few easy (and inexpensive) ideas for bringing back a little elegance to our everyday lives. Here you will find ideas for living, decorating, entertaining and dressing with an easy elegance. Not just my ideas. To help point the way, I intend to seek out all sorts of people -- professional lifestyle experts and those who seem to have been born elegant -- asking them what they believe constitutes elegance and how we can best achieve it. So to those whom Honore de Balzac called “elegantologists” I dedicate this site and the good fight. * From “L’Invitation au voyage” by Charles Baudelaire. The whole line reads: “Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté/ Luxe, calme et volupté.”

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