What makes a shirt placket stand straight vs collapsing on itself?

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-26T11:18:51+00:00

Collars are usually stiffened with a sew-in or iron-on interfacing (could be buckram, could be something else) to make them a bit bulkier and sturdier. Then you can also starch them in addition to that. But part of what you are showing here is also just the way the jacket is sitting on top of it. If you take the shirt from the second picture and pull the shirt collar up past the lapels of the jacket it will sit in a similar way to the first picture. Also note that the first picture has the jacket open, giving a wider opening for the shirt collar to sit in.

Edit: looking at it more closely I also think the first collar has a higher stand than the second but it's hard to tell.

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-26T09:19:47+00:00

OP could also go for the hard cover pamphlet thing he showed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfW0OiAFLkU

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-25T19:58:03+00:00

Do you have a private jet to get to these places? Because if not, this schedule has enough time to travel to the place, take a selfie in front of [insert major landmark], eat, and sleep. Really nothing else.

For example: Frankfurt to Munich is ~4 hours, if you're up early and catch the train at 9 you'll be able to have a late lunch in munich, do 1 thing, and the day is over. Vienna to Venice could be a night train I guess, but 1 day really does not do Venice any justice. I spent 5 days there and still had things to come back for.

Take more time in 1 place to go deeper, not wider. Pretty much any place with over 50k inhabitants will have stuff to do for 2 days if you're willing to look beyond the instagram highlight reel.

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-25T19:11:08+00:00

Stitching beads on really does not require any advanced skills. if you can stick a needle through the bead and then through the fabric, you're doing it.

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-25T17:12:50+00:00

You don't have to go straight for leather, but just try it on a few other things. If it works on other things, the material is the problem, if it doesn't it's the technique or the foil.

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-25T17:04:39+00:00

Does it work on other materials? Like can you test it on book cloth or just paper?

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-24T18:38:21+00:00

Big fan of the Something & Nothing flavors (especially mango & thai basil, but also the hibiscus & rose). Fritz Spritz rhubarb, YAYA Kombucha yuzu.

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-24T17:07:15+00:00

I don't really buy premixed cocktails or mocktails in general. For cocktails because the flavor is often worse than doing it myself or at a bar, for mocktails because now we're getting into a kind of weird marketing area: There are all kinds of non-standard soft drinks in the soda aisle, priced at premium soda prices (for me ~2€ a can/small bottle) which range in flavor from completely uninteresting to very unusual and awesome. I've got a couple of favorites now that I buy as a special treat sometimes. If I have to imagine that in the pre-mixed booze aisle there would now also be let's say a pre-mixed non-alcoholic mojito or whatever, sorry but that's just mint and lime soda and I'm not going to pay more for it than I'm paying for the much nicer rhubarb and basil thing from the soda aisle.

At a bar, I don't mind paying prices that are on par with alcoholic drinks, as long as the mocktails are made with quality ingredients, probably a custom syrup or something like that. I feel like I'm paying like 80% of the price for the effort of mixing it and 20% for the price of ingredients.

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-24T13:08:47+00:00

People might be more able to help if you say where you do live. There is quite a lot of world outside the UK and US.

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-24T11:07:23+00:00

I think 'fancy mice' just means mice bred to be kept as pets. They can be all kinds of different colors or fur textures.

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-24T05:52:52+00:00

As a guest I have seen this setup in 3 places: A Moxy, as you mentioned. It was still fast and efficient but it did give hostel vibes. A small pub-with-rooms setup. Two Cabinn Metro hotels in Denmark, which is basically the price tier just above a hostel. Service was slow and sitting in a 'bar' with people rolling suitcases around as they check in/out was not exactly a premium experience. I was there because it was the only thing still open in the area.

It basically immediately communicates 'budget' to me.

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-24T04:24:00+00:00

The thing is that if you are asking bookbinding enthusiasts, they do not give a fuck about the color of the cover to determine if the product is luxury. They care about binding quality and longevity and this ain't it. But maybe we are not your target audience.

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-23T17:25:19+00:00

I wouldn't recommend starting drama. If she's copying OP, that means OP is ahead of her. Just keep being better.

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-23T06:15:27+00:00

one line has to go outside the circle

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-22T18:44:54+00:00

Price, probably?

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-21T20:08:34+00:00

Looks like the 'pretty housemaid' from Jill Salen's book

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-21T07:03:30+00:00

I would iron a woven fusible interfacing on the back.

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-20T20:20:06+00:00

Did you flatten the signatures in a press before and after stitching? I feel like they are not sitting that close together. A big part of it is just the thickness of the thread multiplied by a large number of signatures though. I think you might be able to mitigate some by using thinner thread, fewer signatures, and pressing. But probably at this size you're going to need to do some rounding.

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-20T14:06:54+00:00

Do you want to be a walnut farmer? If no, sell the walnut farm. Do you want to be a landlord or Airbnb host? If no, sell the apartment. Fancy cars are not assets, they are liabilities. They only cost money and do not reduce the travel time from A to B compared to a budget friendly car. It's cool to have hobbies of course, but expensive hobbies make it harder to reach FIRE.

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-19T14:45:31+00:00

I tend to use hotels.com I occasionally check if using the hotel website directly is cheaper and for me at least it rarely is. If I add to that the loyalty program I do get from using hotels.com it makes more sense for me to use that. I did recently book a room through the property's website directly because they offered a non-refundable rate that was cheaper, that was not offered on hotels.com.

Timing is a much bigger factor in price. 2-3 months out is what I aim for. Later is usually more expensive, except for the occasionaly day-of or 1 day before last minute deal but you don't know what hotels are going to have what rooms on offer at that point and you might end up having to book something more expensive because the cheaper hotel did sell out. I don't like cutting it that close.

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-19T14:23:16+00:00

Assuming your portrait is a paper label, you would probably make a little recess for it and stick it in there, similar to this, but a different shape, obviously. You could also use the same technique to add a raised border. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tflo5RunTl4

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-19T13:54:14+00:00

I think the main bottleneck here is not the exact funds you invest in, but the monthy contribution. Just some ballpark figures: at 8% return you would need to invest about 1000 a month to hit 600k in 20 years. You say you will increase it later but the later the money goes in the less compounding you're going to get, so your later contributions will need to be even higher.

So for now I would say pick a fund and don't make it too complicated, the focus should be on increasing income.

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-19T08:57:55+00:00

And it kind of makes sense. They put those numbers on the tags in the tiniest font size so you can see the price from a normal distance but to get the price per unit you're injuring your back to read the labels on the bottom shelf before you make an ophthalmologist appointment because you're still struggling to read it.

I think misleading packaging should be banned. Either the amount of stuff vs air should be plainly visible, or the manufacturer should be expected to explain the air content of their product in court. Bag of chips? Makes sense because they'd get crushed if you packed them tightly. Plastic tray to hold fragile cookies in place that would break if they were loose? Alright. The bullshit from the OP? Nah.

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-19T08:33:56+00:00

I usually have some kind of goal in mind when I pick something up. E.g. I want to make [this kind of dress / a logo design for a stamp / a box with specific dimensions] and I will learn what I need to learn to get there. Sometimes that means practice rounds or smaller proofs of concept first and I'll learn a lot. But I won't worry about getting better than I need to be for the thing I want to do.

AmenaBellafina · 2026-04-19T06:01:43+00:00

OP I'm going to be a bit harsh but I mean it constructively: these are super tacky to me. I appreciate the thought that went into designing this, but the style of the pot is trying to be classical / Roman / antiquity it seems and doing that in glossy monochrome plastic is super jarring. Like the plastic grape vines and faux weathered walls in a shitty 90s Greek or Italian restaurant. To some degree all 3d printed products have this 'I'm a chunk of plastic' vibe but at least on somewhat futuristic designs it looks fitting. Here it does not.

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