#saint errant

[thedaily-beer]

Saint Errant Brewing Green Clouds DDH IPA (Picked up at Warehouse Liquors in Chicago, IL). A 4 of 4. My first from this brewery, and hopefully not the last -- this delivers just an excellent IPA that's bursting in the nose with lots of tropical fruit and berry notes, and then a pleasantly bitter body. It's slightly hazy but still relatively light, and quite well-balanced.

[professorpski]

Her smile.... was fashioned with wide, full lips exquisitely accented in a shade of shocking pink which matches the hue of her Adrian suit.... sleek squarey shoulders, and topped by an attractive but unnecessary scrap of hat.

When I first read this is the story “Luella” about a very bad woman in a story in Saint Errant by Leslie Charteris from 1948, I thought, hmmmm, square shoulders, silly hat, yes, but Adrian suit in shocking pink?

Most of the suits I have seen by Gilbert Adrian, who made clothing for Hollywood films and for his own line, were more sober than that. But I poked around the online Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and found he did indeed do some bright suits in the 1940s. They have an orange suit and a truly wacky suit with the jacket in half pink and half gray with mirrored appliques worn with a purple skirt. Not many women would have opted for such a memorable item as they expected to wear their suits every week regularly for 2 or 3 years. Blacks, blues, browns, and beiges would be more popular. Not that Adrian settled for the plain blazers we sport. He loved to play with stripes and loved self-trim appliques.

You can see them here: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!?department=8&q=adrian%20suit&perPage=20&searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&offset=0&pageSize=0

[j-august]

"This," the Saint said to nobody in particular, "sounds like one of those stories that fellow Charteris might write."

Leslie Charteris, Saint Errant

[j-august]

Of Simon Templar it could truly be said that to him all the world the world was a stage, and all the men and women merely players in an endless comedy drama designed for his especial entertainment and incidentally his cut at the box office.

Leslie Charteris, Saint Errant