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   Noël Couarde (socalgecko@woof.group)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 16:38:28 JST Noël Couarde

   • Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼

   “So are we… bringing a duffel bag of shoes to Europe?”

   Me, to @elfkin about 75 seconds ago

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     valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 16:38:25 JST valhalla

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     • Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼

     @elfkin @GayDeceiver @socalgecko oh, you're going to visit Milan?

     /me waves down towards Milan from a few km north

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     Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼 (elfkin@woof.group)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 16:38:26 JST Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼

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     @GayDeceiver @socalgecko 100% accurate. But also, one doesn’t have a closet full of custom designed boots to leave them at home when visiting Milan.

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     GayDeceiver (gaydeceiver@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 16:38:27 JST GayDeceiver

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     • Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼

     @socalgecko @elfkin

     This reminds me of the Kimono packing scene in Best In Show.

     https://youtu.be/BbXarsr1hyo?si=rKfgo9cNpRIqKtgP

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     Noël Couarde (socalgecko@woof.group)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 01:21:32 JST Noël Couarde

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     • Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼

     @valhalla Si! Is Como worth a visit in December? Inwas a miserable failure at finding him any interesting fabrics when I tramped around Lecco and Varenna for a day with my dad a couple of years ago. @elfkin

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     valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 01:21:32 JST valhalla

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     • Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼

     @socalgecko @elfkin weather-wise there is a decent likelihood of very nice sunny days that are relatively warm (~10°C) and good for a walk in town or somewhere in the nature around the town.

     As for fabric shops, I guess that Milan will just have more choice. in Como there was a shop that had very nice (and very expensive) silks right in the historic town, but I've just discovered that it has closed down earlier this year when the owner retired :( There is another fabric shop in Como, but I think they have more plain fabrics.

     I think that there are a few factory shops outside como, from the few silk producers left, but I've never been there and I don't know exactly where they are or if they are worth visiting.

     Usually I buy my fancy fabric (shirt linen, suiting wool, silks) from a market stall, not in Como but in Varese (Monday), Luino (Wednesday, on lake Maggiore) or Ponte Tresa (Saturday, on lake Lugano, very close to the swiss border); often however I have to choose from a catalogue with samples and then the fabric is available the next week or so.

     Not a shop, but in Como there is a museum devoted to the history of silk production in the area (Museo della Seta), and in Cernobbio¹ there is another museum in the 1905 house of the owners of an historical fabric producer (Museo Villa Bernasconi); I've quite enjoyed visiting both.

     ¹ it can be reached with a nice walk from Como, following the lake front, about one hour from one of the train stations

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     Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼 (elfkin@woof.group)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 02:35:52 JST Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼

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     @valhalla @socalgecko This is excellent information. Thank you so much!

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     Noël Couarde (socalgecko@woof.group)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 02:36:34 JST Noël Couarde

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     • Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼

     @valhalla Thank you so much for your suggestions! We both also harbor fantasies of cycling around Maggiore but we’re saving that adventure for slightly warmer conditions. :) @elfkin

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