Damn! You were about to be my new best friend!
I like bicycles and small sailboats. I don’t like convertibles. It’s still a car. Just a car that messes up my hair, even if i tie it back.
Motorcycles scare me. I usually interact with them by trying to give them a lot of room on the highway.
I’ve never had Kobe steak, but I had Wagyu last time I was in the Ginza district. Nice, but not THAT nice. And I had filet mignon at a legendary San Francisco steakhouse–got it for my date too, as she’d never had it before–and it just tasted kind of powdery to me. Honestly, New York Strip hits the mark for me every time. Hanger steak, too.
Filet mignon, that’s a good one. I like almost every other steak more than i like filet. It’s one virtue is that it’s tender. But i enjoy chewing my food. It has less flavor than almost every other cut. It doesn’t have any off-flavors. (A couple of cuts are a little “livery”, and i understand why my husband doesn’t want me to buy those.) But… It doesn’t taste much like steak, either.
I’ll eat filet if it’s served to me. But if I’m choosing, give me a rib eye, or a sirloin, or a a New York strip, or my very favorite, a picanha. Heck, I’d prefer a nice chuck steak or a skirt steak to a filet.
A day at the salon is purported to be an enjoyable luxury. You know the staff is judging you, appraising your appearance, mentally sizing you up and peering into your wallet. The invasive interrogation disguised as getting to know you small talk where you’re questioned about your life choices. I’m wearing a plastic bib, my head is wet, the mirror is cruel and the lights are way too bright, yes I’m questioning why am I here.
I do not enjoy massages. Physical touch by someone I don’t know is absolutely revolting to me. This is a big part of the reason I only get a haircut twice a year (I also hate the “small talk” while sitting in the chair, but haircuts aren’t really a luxury).
Interesting. I do the same thing (and just got a new pair a few weeks ago), but I always seem to end up closer to the expensive end. I do NOT look at labels and ignore the price. My only considerations are do they flatter my face and are they comfortable.
I’ll trim my own hair.. but at the salon I feel guilty so it feels like confession box, forgive me Madge it’s been over 2 years since my last haircut what’s my penance?
I did that with the clippers for years, but my wife doesn’t like it when I have a crew cut, so I have refrained from doing so.
I know there are some more fashionable women’s frames with big designer logos on them but he designer names on men’s glasses are so small you need to be in my personal space to read that 3 pt font to see the designer name; either my SO who gets to be intimate close or perhaps a cow-order looking over my shoulder at work as we look at something on my screen. Those people already know me & I’m not trying to impress them with my fashion choices. On my current glasses, the logo is etched into the sides of the frame in the same color as the frame, which makes it even harder to see.
I can tell you have a pony or croc on your polo shirt from a reasonable distance but men’s designer glasses seem like a waste of money to me.
One trend I’ve noticed over the last few years is men wearing brooches, and I really liked it. I noticed it first on red carpet treaders, and I thought it was nice. Attractive and shows personality. Of course people on red carpets tend to be a bit more flamboyant than average.
I didn’t know the “brand” of my latest glasses until they gave me the case.
Tom Ford glasses have each hinge built into the frames in the shape of a sideways T:
I’ve never heard of Tom Ford or know about his special hinges but your photo kind of proves my point. If I’m talking to you at a cocktail party I doubt I’m going to be able to read that small font on the glass, even moreso on most frames when it’s on the earpiece, which means I need to see you close-up but from the side.
Presumably the glass in the photo would be replaced by your own prescription lenses - the hope is that your cocktail party interlocutor sees the T-shaped metal insets on the frames and thinks “T…as in “Tom”…Tom Ford!” (OK, maybe that proves your point.)
The modern approach to “Designer” design is to have some signature feature that’s big enough to see at relevant distances, but discreet enough to not be obvious. The signature feature of Tom Ford glasses is not the name engraved into the glass.
It’s all part of IYKYK: “If you know you know”. The people you are showing off to are the other people who, like you, pay attention to the secret codes of the various designers.
You’re not showing off to the Walmartians. You don’t care to impress them, and they don’t know to be impressed.
Note that I’m not defending this whole “designer” thing. Just explaining aspects of it.
I almost always get the filet mignon at our regular steakhouse (that we’ve going to since we were kids), but they dry age their beef for like 90 days. It is tender, but it’s not mushy, and it has tons of flavor. I ordered a ribeye once because everyone was saying it’s the best, but it just wasn’t as tasty as the filet.
I really don’t understand why anyone wants designer eyeglass frames. I doubt that Tom Ford, Calvin Klein or Ralph Lauren had anything to do with designing them; I expect that the manufacturer (probably Luxottica) slaps the designer name on frames really no different from their house brand. I think my eyeglasses a few years ago had one of those designer names on them but that’s only because that was the one pair I liked out of whatever they had that day.
RE luxury eyeglasses
I worked in that field for 51 years. The higher priced brands are Much better built as far as quality goes, and most of them will replace your frame free if it breaks. How they look on the wearer is subjective.
Re luxuries
Re; massage I still recall getting a good massage and wish I could do that again.
Re: wine I splurged exactly once on a $150 bottle of red at a nice restaurant on their half - price wine night. It was awesome. I did not want my glass to ever be empty, I kept taking smaller and smaller sips. On the other hand if I had paid the full price I could not have enjoyed it,..I just cannot justify 3 digit prices for 4 glasses of wine. I don’t know how rich I would have to be to be able to do that. Ah such is life.
I despise Luxottica and wouldn’t buy anything that comes from them after doing a consulting stint at Oakley. But I do splurge on designer eyewear, I suppose. I typically buy brands that hand make their frames in limited quantities from significantly better materials than the mass produced stuff.
Is it a dumb spend? I could see why somebody would say that. But a guy that owns one of the stores that I go to says basically men have few options for jewelry and glasses are the acceptable jewelry for your face. So I get frames that I really like and things that are just a little bit out there style wise. Doesn’t hurt that I work in a very creative space and sometimes rub shoulders with folks that are extremely eccentrically styled, so I like to at least bring a little of my own look to the table.