I was therefore very pleased when I discovered Charles Tyrwhitt's new catalogue in the mail.
Tyrwhitt is a London based clothing house with their style being rather conservative english gentleman's attire. And what's best: Their pricing is astonishingly reasonable.
After finishing working out around 4pm, I went home immediately and set up an "Afternoon Tea". Time to get cosy, light the candles and have a nice cup of tea and good lecture in the living room.
As for a suiting cigar for that afternoon, I was thinking of a "Bolivar Belicosos Finos" in a special "Gérard Père et Fils" edition.
Gérard is a family business selling premium cigars from Cuba. It's also one of the most noble cigar houses in Switzerland with a very high reputation. Their "boutique" is situated in Geneva's famous Kempinsky Grand Hotel. When I visited the shop in summer last year I was received very friendly and shown around the big walk-in-humidor. They preferred no photos to being taken so instead I suggest you go and let yourself impress. It is indeed imposing to see that many boxes of different years stacked up. I could just sit there for half an hour and let the "great wall of cedar" impress me.
The friendliness of the staff, combined with the beautiful french language that is spoken on site gives the situation a good edge of "savoir-vivre". Make sure you are dressed appropriately when you appear there. That's where we close the circle to my today's afternoon lecture.
The suiting chinese character shall be "Fuzhuang" for "dress" or "clothing".
"fu" stands for "serve" and "obey", "submit oneself to...", "zhuang" means "dress" but also "pretend".
Thus, the word for "dressing up" also has a taste of "submitting" oneself to a dress code or "pretending" to be something or somebody by the choice of your clothes.
That means chinese defined the saying "clothes make the man" quite early.
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