Alex's shoes - dozens of pairs, each handmade by Lobb, each with a hand-carved shoetree with Alex's name engraved on a brass plaque - sat in neat rows, brought to gleaming perfection by Benjamin's magic touch. Alex's shirts - hundreds of them, from Sulka, or Knize, or Harvey & Hudson, cream silk, gray sea island cotton, pale-blue and off-white voile, each shirt monogrammed, each one with buttons on the cuffs (Alex hated cufflinks), each handsewn to measure - were stacked in specially made drawers, wrapped in individual cellophane envelopes. Alex's black silk socks, his faintly checkered gray silk ties, the Irish lawn handkerchiefs (double-size, so fine they would float in the air if opened and dropped, delicately embroidered with Alex's initials), the handmade silk undershorts and the starched pique evening shirts, all these things, and much more, were in Benjamin's care.
-Charmed Lives, by Michael Korda
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Just bought this book at the Strand Bookstore. The author writes very well, and I am enjoying it so far. Interestingly enough, the author's mother warns him against wearing brown shoes with blue suits. I guess she never read A Suitable Wardrobe. Poor woman.
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