Would you carry a Pelikan (or any pen) like this?

[catbert]

This gentleman appears near the end of an article about scarves, though what caught my eye was of course the Pelikan clip in his buttonhole.



Googling to discover (a) who he? and (b) one-off or serial pen dangler? yielded some answers here.



My 400NN unscrews itself in about a half turn, so a beak clip as boutonnière would be asking for an orphaned cap or a bent nib.

Would you sacrifice safety for style?

[FredRydr]

...Would you sacrifice safety for style?

Damn right! I risk it all the time, pocket protectors be damned. (I have lived to regret it.)

[Yazeh]

...Would you sacrifice safety for style?

I don't have style, nor a Pelikan but I won't. I hate nothing more to lose a cherished pen

[catbert]

...Would you sacrifice safety for style?

Damn right! I risk it all the time, pocket protectors be damned. (I have lived to regret it.)

Time was my pen (just one in those days) travelled loose in a trouser pocket. Ruined several pairs that way. Now I have more and nicer pens, they hide in a slim case in an inside breast pocket.

...Would you sacrifice safety for style?

I don't have style, nor a Pelikan but I won't. I hate nothing more to lose a cherished pen

I aspire to style but loss aversion trumps vanity.

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It's the way he carries the pen just hanging in space that gets me. And it's not like he doesn't know how pockets work (presumably no buttonhole in this jacket):

[Niner]

Maybe he's just silly.

[kazoolaw]

...Would you sacrifice safety for style?

Damn right! I risk it all the time, pocket protectors be damned. (I have lived to regret it.)

Time was my pen (just one in those days) travelled loose in a trouser pocket. Ruined several pairs that way. Now I have more and nicer pens, they hide in a slim case in an inside breast pocket.

...Would you sacrifice safety for style?

I don't have style, nor a Pelikan but I won't. I hate nothing more to lose a cherished pen

I aspire to style but loss aversion trumps vanity.

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It's the way he carries the pen just hanging in space that gets me. And it's not like he doesn't know how pockets work (presumably no buttonhole in this jacket):

Two button holes: one full, one empty.
Affectation in place of style.

[Kaputnik]

...Would you sacrifice safety for style?

Style, schmyle. If I ever caught myself being stylish, I would stop it immediately. Carrying a fountain pen at all might be considered stylish, but I prefer to think of myself as eccentric.

Although I almost always have one fountain pen or another with me (in a shirt pocket), I also carry a Fisher Space Pen, because sometimes it's just useful. It's generally the bullet style, with a removable pocket clip that slips over the cap. I lost one of the clips when carrying it in a shirt pocket, but luckily the pen itself fell inside my pocket. If it had been dangling from a button hole I would have lost both. I got another clip, but I now carry it in a pants pocket.

I've got fountain pens with removable clips too, a couple of Kawecos, a vintage Conklin Crescent, perhaps others that I'm not thinking of at the moment. If I carry one of those, it will be in some sort of case.

[carlos.q]

My 400NN unscrews itself in about a half turn, so a beak clip as boutonnière would be asking for an orphaned cap or a bent nib.

Would you sacrifice safety for style?

Well let's see:
1. One of my 400NN pens has one of those locking mechanisms that some vintage Pelikans have that prevents the cap from inadvertently unscrewing.
2. I never thought of clipping a pen in a jacket's buttonhole. Somehow I find it ingenious.
3. BUT.... even if it was considered stylish I would never do it... hey the jacket has a pocket! (probably an inner pocket as well).

[catbert]

1. One of my 400NN pens has one of those locking mechanisms that some vintage Pelikans have that prevents the cap from inadvertently unscrewing.

2. I never thought of clipping a pen in a jacket's buttonhole. Somehow I find it ingenious.
3. BUT.... even if it was considered stylish I would never do it... hey the jacket has a pocket! (probably an inner pocket as well).

I know, right?

[christof]

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Would you sacrifice safety for style?

Although I have great admiration for people with style, I probably wouldn't risk one of my fountain pens for it. Why should I? I like to carry my pens in the breast pocket of my jacket. It's practical and I can still show off my pens





PS: I've just tried to imitate this way of wearing and found that my tailored sports jackets don't have a buttonhole in the lapel...

[Chrissy]

As a woman, it's very easy for me to say no I wouldn't carry a Pelikan (nor any other fountain pen) like that. I'm amazed that he clips it through his buttonhole to his lapel despite having a perfectly good pocket that he could clip it into and make it much safer. For this reason only I wouldn't call him stylish. I would call him a taker of unnecessary risks.

I wonder how many times he has returned home with just a cap clipped through his buttonhole?

[kazoolaw]

The truly fortunate man has a narrow inside pocket specifically for a pen.

[Chrissy]

The truly fortunate man has a narrow inside pocket specifically for a pen.

That sounds like good planning from a manufacturer

[Chrissy]

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Would you sacrifice safety for style?

Although I have great admiration for people with style, I probably wouldn't risk one of my fountain pens for it. Why should I? I like to carry my pens in the breast pocket of my jacket. It's practical and I can still show off my pens

PS: I've just tried to imitate this way of wearing and found that my tailored sports jackets don't have a buttonhole in the lapel...

And no buttonhole for a poppy or a wedding flower sounds like poor planning.

[catbert]

As a woman, it's very easy for me to say no I wouldn't carry a Pelikan (nor any other fountain pen) like that. I'm amazed that he clips it through his buttonhole to his lapel despite having a perfectly good pocket that he could clip it into and make it much safer. For this reason only I wouldn't call him stylish. I would call him a taker of unnecessary risks.

I wonder how many times he has returned home with just a cap clipped through his buttonhole?

Indeed. But would you carry/wear a ring top?

The truly fortunate man has a narrow inside pocket specifically for a pen.

Now that you mention it, I have at least one jacket with a narrow inside pocket like that. And some shirts with a narrow division in the breast pocket presumably also for that purpose, though I never use them that way.

[catbert]

Although I have great admiration for people with style, I probably wouldn't risk one of my fountain pens for it. Why should I? I like to carry my pens in the breast pocket of my jacket. It's practical and I can still show off my pens

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You must have lived this scene from Ludwig.

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[christof]

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And no buttonhole for a poppy or a wedding flower sounds like poor planning.

You are right, but I was talking about sport jackets, not wedding suits In any case, I've never missed the missing buttonhole.

Although I have great admiration for people with style, I probably wouldn't risk one of my fountain pens for it. Why should I? I like to carry my pens in the breast pocket of my jacket. It's practical and I can still show off my pens

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You must have lived this scene from Ludwig.

[dneal]

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Would you sacrifice safety for style?

Although I have great admiration for people with style, I probably wouldn't risk one of my fountain pens for it. Why should I? I like to carry my pens in the breast pocket of my jacket. It's practical and I can still show off my pens

PS: I've just tried to imitate this way of wearing and found that my tailored sports jackets don't have a buttonhole in the lapel...

And no buttonhole for a poppy or a wedding flower sounds like poor planning.

The truly fortunate man has a narrow inside pocket specifically for an emergency poppy or wedding flower.

[Skip]

As a woman, it's very easy for me to say no I wouldn't carry a Pelikan (nor any other fountain pen) like that. I'm amazed that he clips it through his buttonhole to his lapel despite having a perfectly good pocket that he could clip it into and make it much safer. For this reason only I wouldn't call him stylish. I would call him a taker of unnecessary risks.

I wonder how many times he has returned home with just a cap clipped through his buttonhole?

Probably never. He probably never carries a fountain pen except for fashion photo modeling... Anyway here's my non-threatening-to-my-pens (or clothing!) solution:Pen-holster.jpeg

[~JJ]

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