The Sophisticate's Diary
- Occupation: Wage slave
- Location: Seventh Circle : Hell
About Me
Handy hints and tips for the dapper diaspora! The page for louche libertines, feral flaneurs, suave scoundrels, Godless gassers, femmes fatale, revolutionary rakes, high-heeled harlots, seditious strippers, fez-wearing freaks, gin-soaked Jezebels, urbane explorers, desperate dandies, ravishing Reds, Veronica Lake-a-likes, suburban savages, head-shrinking honeys, wild wahines, working class aristocrats, bourbon-swilling beatniks, glamorous guerillas; hedonistic housewives, proletarian pedants, inebriate insurgents. Cads, finks, rascals, hussies, strumpets, bounders, rotters, drunks, roues, bombshells, philanderers, rogues and blaggards. Ladies who know where their waists are, gents who know where their barber is. We believe in a working class with class.
Interests
- Cocktails and creative alcohol abuse
- Fully-fashioned stockings; Vintage styled lingerie
- The Devil's music
- Militant atheism; Burlesque
- Tiki
- Mid-century modern
- Dandyism through the ages
- Vintage fetish photography
- Barberism (as opposed to barbarism)
- Exceedingly high heels
- Velvet collars
- The dark art of pocket-square folding
- Hats
- Girdle-bound damsels
- Film noir
- Intimate smoke-filled venues frequented by spies
- prostitutes and freedom fighters
- Swordsticks
- Deco architecture
- Cravats
- Diaphanous underlinen
- Silk pencil skirts
- Button braces
- Hip flasks
- Pocket watches
- Smoking jackets
- Frilly knickers
- Oak bookcases
- Loakes brogues
- a glimpse of welt
- The International Brigades
- Toatal social change
Favorite Movies
- The Thin Man
- Odd Man Out
- St. Trinians
- Hellzapoppin'
- The Street With No Name
- Pick Up On South Street
- Asphalt Jungle
- Out Of The Past
- Pépé le Moko
- School For Scoundrels
- Make Mine Mink
- The Green Man
- Love on the Dole
- Rififi
- Le Samourai
- Irving Klaw films.
Favorite Music
- The Sophist-O-Phonic Sounds of Sex
- Savagery and Sin. We regard modern popular 'music' as a foetid abscess betwixt the sagging buttocks of mediocrity. MTV is the pus that issues forth from that festering hole; emo is the noxious miasma rising from that rotten ooze and hip hop
- the bloated maggot feasting on the whole wretched mess. We are the cure
- the cauterizing iron of connoisseurship.
Favorite Books
- The Sophisticate's Diary. Even though it doesn't exist in physical form because it was shunned by idiot publishers. The Savoy Cocktail Book
- The Esquire Book of Gambling
- Modern Drunkard
- John Willie's Bizarre
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
- Das Kapital
- The Bartitsu Compendium
- The Cane as a Weapon
- The Collins Gem Book of Knots.
My Blogs |
Team Members |
| The Sophisticate's Diary | |
|---|---|
| Vintage Wear Daily | Sophistikitten Ali Honore Eileen Ami |
| Vintage Scans |
