🐸 TOP HAT TIPS: E NOLAN
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Happy Wednesday!
What’s good chookies? Recovered from the easter long weekend? Had some yummy choccies?
In today’s instalment of TOP HAT TIPS we’re talking to E Nolan, Manager of FROOMESWORLD’s Uniform Factory.
Apart from her duties at FW, Emily Nolan is in the business of made-to-measure suits. She also has ready-to-wear stuff, like this (personal favourite) t-shirt, a collab with Melbourne’s #1 sandwich designers, Hector’s Deli:
I’m asking EN for her TOP HAT TIPS because she is a visionary when it comes to finding good shit. She is like a walking tumblr to me. A chic one that also loves McDonald’s.
Speaking of.
MCDONALD’S
F: What’s the best meal at McDonald’s?
EN: Eat chips first, steamed bun McChicken next, McNuggets last. Small Caramel Sundae Extra Caramel. Fkn love the biscuits too, if you get a drive through coffee at Bridge Rd McDonald’s they give you a little cookie for free.
CRUISERS
F: Best flav? I know u usually drink beer which is very Barney of you.
EN: Lemon Ruski’s ooh bloody shit yeah.
F: That’s not a Cruiser, but go off.
MELBOURNE
F: So you live in Melbourne. Whenever I come home I ask you where to go for breakfast. Most times you direct me somewhere north of the river and it offends me. Where can I get breakfast in the south east?
EN: Breakfast is always past 10am and I only speak in absolutes. The best toasted cheese sandwich is from The Lawson Grove Shop. Best coffee is from Little Pony at the Camberwell Market and the gluten free Nutella cakes at Sweet Treat, Prahran Market are it for me.
WHAT THE FUCK
F: This question is open to your interpretation
EN: is that smell? Did I do that?
DYCHOTOMY
F: That’s meant to be DICHOTOMY but it’s the way I spelt it before spellcheck and I must live my truth. There is a dychotomy between your work (fashion, luxury suiting) and your personality (doing poo and drinking beer). It’s the widest gap between the two I’ve ever seen. It was very important for us to meet and become friends because you validated the idea that you can be both and be both well. Did you ever feel like you had to be more ‘serious’ in your job?
EN: Oh yeah, you figure out that by being told you’re too much or never enough leaves you feeling either gutter drunk or liberated as hell. Sometimes at the same time. I haven’t got it all figured out, I seriously love my work and it is a great privilege to be able to feel that. I have come to understand that these disparate elements of high and low do not exist in opposition to one another; these are serious clothes, but they are characterised by an understanding that excessive seriousness inevitably fails. Embrace your symptoms. They make for much more interesting conversations.
POOPIE
F: It’s not often that I meet people who have a similar open-mindedness to shet. Most memorable bathroom experience? Can be either a place, or a moment in time in a bathroom.
EN:
F: We really were doing poopies at Dimitri’s Pizzeria on Oxford St, Darlinghurst – all u can eat pizza + free drink on arrival for $55pp. Unreal deal.
COOKING
F: Do you like cooking? Can you link us to a recipe. Maybe something you’d cook if a friend(s) came over.
EN: I have learnt that I love cooking. It is a bit like drawing, the motion disconnects thought. I really love making sandwiches and I love olive oil. At the moment I’m on a bit of a risotto train. It’s ugly food and you can make it up as you go. I get fkn hangry so I like things that are quick to make.
fugly
F: Take a screenshot of your explore page.
FUNERAL SONG
F: What’s yours?
EN: I’m Coming Out – Diana Ross.
FINALLY
F: Any final words? Do you want to ask me a question? I haven’t talked about myself in a while. I’m happy to give you some business advice should you so require.
EN: what are you wearing to my funeral? I’m so annoyed I won’t be fun at my own funeral.
F: I will be wearing E Nolan.
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