How do luxury people live?

Speaking of this decadent lifestyle, I think the best way to write is the writer Peter Mayer, who is famous for writing about the mountain life and holidays in Provence, making it one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world. His writing style has always been humorous, which is worthy of the kind of writing you often see in gentlemen's magazines. I'm going to introduce his book today. The Chinese translation of simplified or traditional Chinese characters is called relevant flavor, but the problem is that the name of the American version is different from that of the English version. It's called expensive habit in Britain, and then it's called acquired taste in the American version. So what's the taste or expensive habit in it? This book introduces a dozen or twenty most expensive hobbies and habits.

A straw hat, 10 thousand yuan each.

How expensive is it? Let me start with a very simple thing, a hat. Men are different now. In 1930s and 1940s, men wore hats, but now people don't wear hats. The hat in the picture just now is a Panama hat. We can only see this Panamanian straw hat in old movies now, or if you have money and leisure, you can occasionally go to Dicaro or Morocco, and sometimes you will see some people driving convertible sports cars, and they are old sports cars from the 1950s and 1960s. Panama straw hat is not really from Panama, but a hat worn by Panama Canal workers. But the hats they wore in those days were not as exquisite as they are now. Now this straw hat is sewn up stitch by stitch, which is very fine. If the best straw hat is made in Monte Cristo, it can be sold for 65,438+0,200. 65,438+0,200 pounds, ladies and gentlemen, this straw hat is almost equivalent to more than 65,438+0,000 RMB. When this hat is placed on the table, it is elegant cream color, with a circle of dark gray ribbon and a circle of raised ribs. It feels very special, more like thick silk than hay, and it is very carefully woven.

Where is the more wonderful place? Panama straw hats are notoriously soft and can be folded. This straw hat can be folded, folded into a ball, put into the boot of your riding boots or put into a small tube. A small wooden pipe, usually made of oak, must have a gold-plated engraving on it, engraved with which aristocratic straw hat manufacturer in London specially made this straw hat. You can completely roll up this hat, make it so small, put it in, and then take it out and open it. Not completely creased, you can continue to wear it on your head. At least play like this. You can wear it like this for more than 20 years. This is a Panama straw hat, 1, 000 yuan.

Do you wear your pants on the left or the right?

Besides hats, we should also look at clothes. London's custom-made suits have always been famous, but Peter Meyer said they were unbearable at first. What did he say? He said that sometimes he went to some high-end clothing stores in London to order suits, and found that those old brands were somewhat exaggerated. For example, he will tell you that Lord Nelson makes military boots on our side. Then I'll show you the bill Wilde ordered for a double-breasted long coat, which is still hanging on the wall. They will look you up and down with polite but disdainful eyes. You think your most handsome suit is specially worn for this visit. Later, they finally muttered, I think we can definitely do better than this. After this sentence destroyed your clothes, what he started to do was to destroy your whole personality. Although they help you measure your body, none of their comments are good. For example, he will say something you didn't know before. He will say that your left shoulder is drooping, your chest is slack, your lower spine is slightly convex, you are suspected of hunchback, and your legs are of different lengths.

But he introduced what he thought was the best tailor-made suit shop in London, Douglas Hayard. So this old shop, this old man Douglas Hayad, is now 100 years old. This shop is different, relaxed and harmonious, and won't make you feel like an enemy. But he will also ask some very professional questions, such as asking you, sir, do you like to wear left or right? Look, if you don't understand the meaning of this sentence, don't imitate others to make a suit. This sentence means that we must understand that the male genitalia is not hanging in the center, either on the left or on the right, and most people are on the left. So if we put on a pair of pants that really fit, shouldn't we also consider this? That is, should your genitals be placed in the left leg or the right leg? So, when an old tailor asks you politely, sir, do you want to wear your pants on the left or the right? You'll know what's going on

But the most expensive or interesting taste in this book is of course the Connaught Hotel, which is a very famous old hotel in London. This hotel is the kind where all the waiters, cleaners, chefs and waiters in the whole hotel can call you Mr. Liang and help you check in within one second after you enter the gate. How do they know you? What secret channel did they communicate with? You don't know. When you sit in their bar or restaurant, you will find that their waiter treats you as if waiting for your arrival is the most worthwhile thing in his life. He is very eager to serve you and satisfy you without disturbing you. For example, the bartender who pours your drinks is patrolling the hall, walking very lightly. Maybe the carpet is too thick and you can't hear his voice. But you just looked at this cup. Well, it seems that it's time to drink. As soon as this eyebrow was raised, I was full of wine and food. What's going on here? Then peter mayle said that things like this were called services in the good old days, so today we don't know what they are called.