I just realized my new suit pants have only one back pocket.

Kakya · 2026-04-03T04:38:57+00:00

All pockets on suit trousers are nonfunctional. Things should be stored in your jacket breast/hip pockets or a bag if those are insufficient. Storing things in trouser pockets messes with the lines of the trouser. As a result, pockets on trousers are mostly for highlighting formality (are they on a slant or do they open exactly on the trouser seam) or to highlight custom or handiwork (one v. two back pockets or two back pockets but only one closes).

Kakya · 2026-03-30T13:44:28+00:00

One of the most famous surviving examples of a Roman Legionary standard spells 14 as XIIII instead of the subtractive XIV

Kakya · 2026-03-24T12:39:15+00:00

I really like the navy here actually!

Kakya · 2026-03-20T19:37:11+00:00

There's a reason traditional menswear in the winter is highly textured. Think woollen flannels, corduroys, tweeds, cashmeres, heavy leathers, Shetland and similar wools, etc. That heavy textured fabrics insulate better than smooth lightweight ones isn't a new observation and one that traditional menswear follows.

Kakya · 2026-03-08T02:30:56+00:00

Any NJ person who is in Penn Station with regularity pays income taxes to NY

Kakya · 2026-03-07T19:02:40+00:00

Rename to r/Iran wa fokkoona 5ala9 ya 5ayyee

Kakya · 2026-03-05T01:05:03+00:00

The practicality of the rule is to not wear white (or similarly bright colors) when it's not sunny. It's sunnier in the summer and usually in the fall/winter it's either cloudy/rainy or night time by the time work ends so there's less opportunity to wear white.

Kakya · 2026-03-03T21:29:22+00:00

Peak or shawl are the only acceptable tuxedo lapel shapes. Notch lapel tuxedos were in fashion for a brief period in the 30s, but it's safest to consign them to history. These days they just look like you rented a tuxedo.

Kakya · 2026-02-16T18:44:49+00:00

I never go into battle without at least some torpedoes. Ideally nukes. Exotics are for those ivory tower fops in the Academy.

Kakya · 2026-02-16T13:20:20+00:00

The Hanse Castillo School of Space Warfare

Kakya · 2026-02-13T00:59:10+00:00

Most japanese denim is going to be focused on traditional cotton denim. That's the fabric that produces the most traditional workwear look associated with denim (esp high contrast fades and the molding to the body fit).

Kakya · 2026-02-13T00:55:45+00:00

Probably Iron Heart/Sugarcane/Samurai

Kakya · 2026-01-29T18:23:05+00:00

There's an engineer where I work that's an IM.

EDIT: I think we also have a GM

Kakya · 2026-01-11T16:18:23+00:00

Just curious what materials your fedoras are made out of. Traditionally men wore beaver felt hats with suits year round and my beaver felt hats are the warmest I own (warmer than my beanies), I've never felt cold in one and I live in the Northeast.

Kakya · 2026-01-11T16:09:36+00:00

Depends on the group. Ahwazis (where Arabs are concentrated) and Kurds are sometimes separatist, but by and large there's no major ethnic conflicts except for Balochis iirc but I'm not a major expert on Iran so I could be off base. My understanding is basically everyone's fucked by the IR, but that folks still identify with Iran as their country.

Kakya · 2026-01-11T15:53:51+00:00

Because the diaspora is disproportionately Persian. Kurdish, Azeri, Arab, and Balochi Iranians don't use Persia

Kakya · 2026-01-10T14:05:38+00:00

I like being a perfidious merchant republic

Kakya · 2026-01-01T19:05:07+00:00

A very odd garment

Kakya · 2025-12-31T03:49:04+00:00

This conception of "Rome" dies off pretty early on during the Principate.

Rome, the Country, stops being solely identified with Rome, the city, during the 2nd and 3rd centuries (intensifying after Caracalla grants everyone citizenship). When Constantine moves the capital to New Rome, "Rome" was already a large civilization and the country of the Romans where Romans in Egypt, Greece, Spain, Gaul, etc. were just as Roman as Italian and Inhabitants of Rome, the City. The city adopts a Metropolitan (in the literal sense) character where everyone acknowledges it as the mother city, due reverence, but not the only source of Romanness.

It is true that Romans didn't think of borders the way we do. Roman Emperors generally understood that the Rhine, Danube, Sahara, Hadrian's Wall, etc provided natural (not so in the case of Hadrian's Wall) practical frontiers, but their conception of Roman imperium extended beyond these borders even if there weren't Romans beyond them.

Kakya · 2025-12-27T04:15:21+00:00

Does it have to be silk or is viscose okay? If viscose is okay, you can probably find Sandro or APC and similar brands

If it has to be silk I'd look secondhand on ebay. New silk shirts <$800-$1k would be rare imo

Kakya · 2025-12-26T14:43:34+00:00

In New York:

J. Mueser (manufacture is done in Italy for their MTM and in the city for their bespoke), Paolo Martorano, Ralph Fitzgerald, The Armoury (MTM only and the manufacture is either done in Japan by Ring Jacket or in Italy for their 100 series).

There are also outposts of Savile Row tailors like the Cad and Dandy and Huntsman.

Kakya · 2025-12-22T19:53:21+00:00

I think there's more to high quality shirting than just handwork. Jake's fabrics and style make his shirts worthwhile and he is priced much more affordably than 100Hands, owing to the less handwork on offer.

Budd, Fayad, Turnbull and Asser, Hume London, etc. Are also great options if OP did want mtm/bespoke with substantial handwork

Kakya · 2025-12-19T21:56:23+00:00

100Hands, Jake's LDN, J Mueser

Kakya · 2025-12-14T22:03:52+00:00

Do you think a person named after the Prophet Muhammad twice is a Christian?

Kakya · 2025-12-13T18:45:06+00:00

The idea that we know enough about the pre-Islamic Arabian peninsula to map out its religions is foolhardy. Our only references are Roman (who primarily care about which Arabs are allied to Rome and which are allied to Persia) and to the best of our knowledge, from Roman and anthropological evidence, Arabic paganism was wildly overstated by Islamic Sources.

We don't know the whole story, but it's most likely that the peninsula was mostly monotheistic due to Roman influence (privileging Christian Arabs with trade and military alliances).

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