2021-03-22, Monday
Despite the temperatures, spring is asserting its dominance.
And, given my meteosurrender, I used a Neapolitan soap this morning.
Curious...while I had plenty, it didn't say much to me. Now that it's running out, I like it more and more and I am very attracted to its cousins too!
It lathers immediately, firm and 'adjustable', fantastic texture and a sophisticated scent.
Naples is not the capital of fashion, in its commercial way, but it is certainly the epicenter of men's fashion.
Naples pampers the man with its barbers, tailors, cafes and pastry shops...
Genoa is the pivot of Anglo-Saxon men's fashion in its Italian version, ultra-classic and conservative, with a less 'hanged' cut: grisaille, flannel, Vatican cloth, solaro, gabardine allign undisturbed...
Apart from a few trendy Milanese, the Genoese are the only ones who wear ticket pockets!
Venice and Padua indulge in modernity.
Naples remains the stronghold of the dandy 'male' and where this is not criticized as a sybarite, but admired!
I've always dreamed of sipping a 'coffee', perhaps with a San Gennariello, at a table by the sea, wearing a gabardine suit after having been shaved in a salon with a vintage decor...
I've never been able to do it, but, if Paradise is like in the promotional posters, I know I will!
And every day!
Mine was a reduced version, 00 let's say, of a private Neapolitanity, in the Northern valley: the face was here, but the heart there!
Sapone PS: Sapone di Aleppo
Sapone: Boellis, Panama
Pennello: Simpson's, Commodore X3, BB
Rasoio: Merkur, Progress 500
Lametta: Gillette, 7 O’Clock, Super Stainless
AS 1: MilMil, Figaro Gel
AS 2: Beiersdorf , Nivea Sensitive
EdC: Czech & Speake, Oxford & Cambridge
ST: Chet Baker e Paul Bley, Diane 1985
