Going Polish

[chrisbarnes]

Well, dear readers! It has been a long time since my last confession post. So, what have I been up to, apart from the usual eat/drink/work/sleep business

Comments

[kaaronwarren]

Magnificent! And your salt-and-pepper moustache looks ice-flecked, as if you have been fighting in the snow.

[chrisbarnes]

Thanks! Alas, there was no snow. Snow would have been cool (as well as cold).

[kaaronwarren]

At least you look cold and all Polish and stuff.
Was Polish vodka imbibed?

[chrisbarnes]

Yes, lots! I'll post about that separately.

[murasaki_1966]

You look very stylish. It's a shame that interesting clothes for men went our of fashion sometime in Victoria's day.

[chrisbarnes]

That's the beauty of historical re-enactment; you can choose whichever period and culture looks coolest!

[lyndarama]

Cool hat!

[chrisbarnes]

Warm, too. :-)

[clockworkquill]

Wspaniale! (Which of course means 'super' in Polish, for the uninitiated.) Those coats look just the ticket for the minus twenties winters they manage to round up in old Polska. Absolutely love it.

[chrisbarnes]

Thanks! Of course, in a -20 winter they'd wear a second coat over the top (furlined if you could afford it). I'm going to make one of those for next year. And a bigger, furrier kolpak hat.

[quatrefoil]

Damned stylish indeed. The Poles might have been being invaded by a different neighbour every half hour but they certainly knew how to dress.

[chrisbarnes]

They most certainly did! Apparently the fashion among Polish nobles for fancy coats and clothing got so great that all the neighbouring countries were effectively scoured of brocade and similar materials, as the demand in Poland was so great.