peteyross

Dude, it translates the whole page for you...you don't have to do it manually. Either way, you can search using generic terms like "Dior Homme", "[your size]", etc. If you find something that looks good, just get a proxy to bid on it for you. It's surprisingly simple.

Like Rajio said, your tailor is right. This is an alteration that is well within the skill set of a good tailor, but it won't be as cheap as taking the sleeve up from the bottom. And don't even think about doing this with a tailor you aren't sure of. On well made suits, you'll often see that there are no button holes on the sleeves and the buttons come in a little plastic bag. This is done so that the tailor can first get the sleeve length right, then create the button holes afterwards.

actually if investors want to get out they dont have no choice

True, but most funds have a base of "captive money" as well as their own equity. By captive money, I mean relationship based investors that can't really leave the fund without severing a business relationship in the process. Also, the managers usually have some sort of gate that they can close if too much money leaves the fund at once. Many of these funds don't expect their "captive money" to redeem, but its beginning to happen now. Funds with liquidity usually try to have some of their investors subject to a lock-up period but in the end, your point is blunt and true. After several quarters of severe losses, these funds are starting to lose capital as fast as investors can get out.

I would say that black shoes are the only choice for an interview. Brown shoes are completely fine (in my opinion better) for grey/navy suits, but stick with black for an interview.

Looks like they've given up waiting for their model to work. Jesus, all of these quant funds are getting pounded as they wait for their beloved "mean reversion".

The problem with a lot of these cuts is that in addition to looser thighs, they also have humongous asses (anti-fit I took a dump in my pants style). If you don't have hips or an ass to fill out a repro cut, a lot of them jeans still don't fit right. I find that the loose cuts on brands that aren't doing faithful repros are more modern and wearable.

I'd recommend:

45rpm Sorahikos

SDA-101

Eternal 874

PBJ 003

Samurai S5000vx

APC Rescue

Just got my pair of 811's to finally replace the Cane 47's that were in a car that got stolen.

Ordered them from VARI on Rakuten and can recommend them. The manager Mr. Hirofumi Udono provided quick responses and EMS was great. Received em within 3 business days of shipping. Came with the red tab and all.

Ordered a size 30

I'm about 5'7'', 140lbs

They fit great!

I don't think Eternal was part of the red tab/acruate situation earlier this year, but just as a general rule, don't go blowing up spots . If people start posting what shops are shipping jeans with certain features, you're fucking with other people's livelihoods.

Eternal 874 - The regular/loose fit version the Eternal 811 (the same exact denim is used). Looser in the thighs and wider below the knee than the 811. Good option if you think 811s are too slim.

45rpm Sorahiko - Beautiful one-wash denim. Not too slubby but it does have irregularities. Really requires dedication to get fading but once it starts, it's perfect. Some people use starch to get better creasing. The cut is classic, not too tight, not too loose (by Superfuture standards, this may be on the loose end of the spectrum though). Timeless and a true payoff for anyone who puts in the time.

SDA-101 - Tough as hell. Regular fit that is more modern than most people think. If you wear your jeans hard as hell, these would be a good project. If you like a really tough pair to fade, SDA is where it's at. The denim doesn't look very exciting at first (really dark and plain) but it becomes something special over time. Beginners may get frustrated with these.

There are several things at work at Goldman that they did well. One, is that they recognized the downturn in the mortgage market early and actually profited from market going south. Two, in many of their funds that had lost significant positions, they switched up their rhetoric and instead of telling their investors that they lost money, they told them that its an "opportunity to buy/put more money in". Hence, their losses for their Global Alpha funds were recovered by investors bailing them out. Third, Goldman is not a big player in CDOs and SIV ventures like Citigroup and Merrill, so their exposure wasn't as severe; topped w/ their "We're Goldman, we know what the fuck we're doing" attitude.

Yeah Goldman was anemic on the CDO side which proved to be a good thing (ie, the opposite of Merrill). Their underwriting side was one of the worst on Wall St. I really don't know if they had a CDO prop desk though, which is where Morgan Stanley's losses are coming from now.

Not everything is rosey at Goldman though, through September the Global Alpha Fund was down 35% for the year (that's after injecting $2bln of their own money and $1bln they collected from investors).

Morgan Stanley $3.7 billion write down jablaaam! It will be astounding if Goldman doesn't suffer any significant writedowns.

I knew that solistik pic was gonna be undeservedly posted in here

Yeah no kidding. Superfuture is a joke when it comes to wearing formal/business clothing. This outfit is...well it's amateur. It doesn't fit that well and the garments don't look like they're of very high quality. The only good pic I've seen in this forum of someone dressed up has been DJRajio (he's a banker though so he should know what to wear). I think the inherent problem is that most fashion brands that people drool over here just don't make very high quality formal/business clothing. Combine that with a younger average age (ie, haven't developed that spectrum of style yet) and you get looks that don't get to a very high level.

This New York man, wear a suit. Get your mind right. You've probably got a fresh out of college look anyway so nobody is expecting your suit to fit well. The khakis & blue blazer is known as "casual" in most business environments. Throwing a tie on with it doesn't make it any better. This is an interview -- what are they gonna do, blame you for wearing a suit to an interview? This shouldn't even be a question. I don't know where you got the idea that going casual to a business interview is OK. Wearing a blue blazer and khakis brings you down a notch.

by leverage i mean financing your stock purchases by borrowing money (with a guarantee).

example: buying $1000 apple with $200 in cash and the other $800 borrowed, if aapl ups 10% you win 100$ (1000$*10%) getting a 50% (100$/200$) return on your investment, obviously you can guess what happens if aapl is down 10%

you can get leverage to by buying options instead of shares themselves

but i think some people in here will explain it better

Leverage is what makes the world go 'round...

I think you described it well enough. Leverage can be as simple as a plain vanilla prime brokerage account but it can get very complex through structured products. Some sophisticated investors will do anything to get leverage on an investment strategy they like. Or better yet, people will use leverage to acquire products that are already levered. Leverage is a key component to almost all high returning investment strategies, particularly private equity (ie a PE firm buys an $11bln company by putting up $1 billion of their own cash and borrowing $10 billion in the form of syndicated loans).

actually goldman is up for the year

just learned about things called level 3 assets which are almost illiquid ones and looks like that more writedowns are coming only merrill shows a "reasonable" lvl3/equity ratio look at that might be still early to come back on banks

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2007/11/06/8661/from-level-three-to-cloud-nine/

But Goldman hasn't reported September yet. I don't think they'll even come close to tanking, but September was a horrible month on the structured credit side of the market.

Actually it might be a good time to buy since they are oversold. At least Morgan, Goldman, Lehman...but man, I never would have thought Merrill would go to shit in a million years.

Wait till we see the other banks' reporting. I'm sure you know that Merrill's quarter picked up September whereas the other banks haven't reported that time period yet. It is likely that Merrill will have suffered the greatest loss, but I think other banks will also take huge write downs. It's not clear that everyone has "taken their medicine" and moved on. Banks could still be contemplating ways to put off writing things down.

I come from the High Yield/Bank Loan side of the market and it seems that banks are going to carefully plan their distribution so as not to send the bid side of the market plummeting (and forcing themselves to write down everything that's stuck on their balance sheet in the process). It's going to take a while for this to happen though. It's not a good time to be in the structured credit business.

I'm not an equities guy but I think you're right on buying the banks when they're cheap though. One can make a good argument that any time you can buy a cheap Goldman or Lehman is a good idea, especially if you're willing to hold them beyond a short-term horizon.

They have 15% off on shoes and bags from the Fall collection till Monday. Sorry I don't know the new code.

pp@yoox still works for me

I've got a pair of the light grey selvage classic fit in size 32. The waist measures 31 and they are pretty straight through the hips. They are fairly slim but not as slim as my PBJ-005. At the store, I tried on the blue selvage NDG classic fits and they fit slightly larger in the waist than the light grey (similar everywhere else though).

I also tried on the loose fit in size 30 and they were very large and baggy. The jump for "classic fit" to "loose fit" was very large and didn't quite make sense to me. Maybe they were from different seasons? I expected the difference to be analogous to APC New Standard/Rescue but this wasn't the case.

Irrespective of fit, the jeans are great and feel very solid. Strangely I get compliments on my NDG jeans but nobody has ever commented on any of denim from Japanese companies.

Dude if your jeans are getting stuck on your calves, you need to size up a bit...

I don't know if it's sad or amazing how Fujiwara dominated this thread is. Where's MilSpex when you need someone to really take this thread to the next level?

Are 874's true to size? size up or down?

The sz 32 one-wash 874's that I got were pretty true to size. For reference, I wear:

APC Rescue: 29

45rpm Sorahiko: 31

APC New Standard: 30

SDA-103: 32

Eternal 874: 32

Thank god I thought I was the only one who thought about this. Sometimes even if I have to take a dump, I just hold it cause if I pull them down to take a dump, my honeycombs will get messed up. Also, I piss once a day in the morning before I put on my jeans because if I unbutton the fly, my whiskers will flatten out.

Remember FF was the first boutique to ever carry Nudie jeans in the states (at least from what I remember).

I think you're right on this one. I remember in 2002 (maybe 2003?) going in and the salesperson was showing me their first run of Regular Ralfs.

I don't know how they stay in business, they're so out of the way from everything else. great store though

Yeah I'd have to agree here. They are a great store that I drop by fairly frequently, but most people won't bother to walk all the way over there if they can buy the same products elsewhere. Lately though, Famous Friends seems to be losing exclusivity to brands that were once hard to find in elsewhere. If I can buy the same brands at Atrium (aka AMJACK heaven), what does that say for Famous Friends? In the end, perhaps being so far east will keep the integrity of the store in tact. As long as they can maintain their ability to be the first on the block with good labels, they should be fine. Also in many ways, being out of the way of the classic Soho-to-Nolita-to-LES loop is a good thing.

are these as loose as the 45rpm jeans you had?

VERY similar fit actually...the 874s have a lower rise than the 45rpm Sorahiko though. Other than that they are a very similar fit.

PAYMENT IS NOW PENDING ON THESE. WILL UPDATE STATUS IF/WHEN PAYMENT CLEARS.

Famous Friends seems to be floundering in NYC...didn't know they had business elsewhere