Re: Suits : Thu Dec 01, 2011 12:56 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

Another Yorkshire lad was James Mason.
Once had a chat with him on platform 1 at Wakefield Westgate.

I met Perry Mason once.

He was a tallyman on King Goerge Dock in Hull. When you saw him, he was always "resting on a case"

Re: Suits : Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:00 pm  

Thorntonsaint wrote:

Can anyone name some good quality branded double cuff shirts?

No!
But I see what you did there with the double post.



Mind I have a little anecdote to my earlier story.

Re: Suits : Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:01 pm  

Thorntonsaint wrote:

Can anyone name some good quality branded double cuff shirts?

Lots.
What's your budget?

Re: Suits : Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:09 pm  

I know its all about personal taste but for a nice bit of tweed at a reasonable price I think the Holland Esquire stuff is pretty good value.

Re: Suits : Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:36 am  

Derwent wrote:

I know its all about personal taste but for a nice bit of tweed at a reasonable price I think the Holland Esquire stuff is pretty good value.

Not nearly as good value as I've just managed to blag: A rust-coloured herringbone tweed, tailored on Savile Row from Isle of Islay tweed, brand new, for the princely sum of £26.00 + p&p

And those ties that I blagged last week for £0.99p?

Here they are:

Re: Suits : Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:47 pm  

First one is a school tie. You've been had.

Re: Suits : Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:02 pm  

We used to do a lot of work with the Employment Service and I was stood in a queue at a Job Centre once waiting to see the receptionist when a bloke who looked like he normally slept under a bush on the roundabout outside sidled up to me, looked me in the eye, nodded and winked.

I said hello, he nodded towards my tie and winked again and said "me too".

I have to say I was dressed in a suit, shirt and smart tie, he was dressed like Worzel Gummidge and I wondered what the hell he was talking about, then he nodded at my tie again, "Army Air Corps" he said, "that was me".

"I bought it in Marks & Spencers" I told him and I've never seen anyone look so crestfallen.

Its true, you can still buy the Army Air Corps regimental tie in Marks & Spencers, someone must have forgotten to copyright the design.

Re: Suits : Wed Dec 07, 2011 5:39 pm  

McLaren_Field wrote:

... Marks & Spencers ...

Marks and Spencer now in the decent suit forum.
That's austerity for you.

Mind you, it's mix and match these days isn't it?
On the tube (in that London) this morning, a lady opposite was wearing a Barbour logo jacket, carrying a Prada logo bag (real? I wouldn't know) from which she produced a Cath Kidson spectacle case (logo inside).
At her feet was a Primark cloth carrier bag.
I guess the carrier was where she bought her knickers.

I'm a TK Maxx man meself.

Re: Suits : Wed Dec 07, 2011 5:40 pm  

wigan_rlfc wrote:

First one is a school tie. You've been had.

The day I require any fashion advice from a pie-eater would be a bloody cold day in hell

Re: Suits : Wed Dec 07, 2011 5:48 pm  

McLaren_Field wrote:

We used to do a lot of work with the Employment Service and I was stood in a queue at a Job Centre once waiting to see the receptionist when a bloke who looked like he normally slept under a bush on the roundabout outside sidled up to me, looked me in the eye, nodded and winked.

I said hello, he nodded towards my tie and winked again and said "me too".

I have to say I was dressed in a suit, shirt and smart tie, he was dressed like Worzel Gummidge and I wondered what the hell he was talking about, then he nodded at my tie again, "Army Air Corps" he said, "that was me".

"I bought it in Marks & Spencers" I told him and I've never seen anyone look so crestfallen.

Its true, you can still buy the Army Air Corps regimental tie in Marks & Spencers, someone must have forgotten to copyright the design.

"Army Air Corps" is code for "Fancy a bum", no wonder he was crestfallen, you're a good looking fella.