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#1 2016-03-29 03:14:04

woofboxer
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# Brooks Brothers Repp Stripe Tie


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#2 2016-03-29 06:16:39

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Re: # Brooks Brothers Repp Stripe Tie

Woof, not sure how long they have been using the number system. Here is a short post that I wrote a while back that features 1-5: http://oxfordclothbuttondown.com/2013/05/the-brooks-brother-striped-tie/

 

#3 2016-03-29 09:50:33

woofboxer
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Re: # Brooks Brothers Repp Stripe Tie


'I'm not that keen on the Average Look .......ever'. 
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#4 2016-03-29 10:04:41

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Re: # Brooks Brothers Repp Stripe Tie

I feel l am about to set the buzzer off on Q.I., but I always thought the "#" symbol is just shorthand for the word "number"?

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#5 2016-03-29 10:16:42

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Re: # Brooks Brothers Repp Stripe Tie

^ Even more down the QI route ...
"#" symbol traditionally used to designate part numbers on engineering drawings to avoid confusion with measurement markings.


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#6 2016-03-29 10:19:47

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Re: # Brooks Brothers Repp Stripe Tie

Exactamundo.

 

#7 2016-03-29 10:25:39

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Re: # Brooks Brothers Repp Stripe Tie

It derives from the abbreviation for Libro Pondo, 'pound weight' in Latin, i.e. an LP scored through to denote an abbreviation. This was simplified to the # as time went on, and originally it referred to weight in pounds.  It cam to refer just to 'number' in accounting practice in the US in the 19th C.


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#8 2016-03-29 10:49:42

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Re: # Brooks Brothers Repp Stripe Tie

I cant work out if this thread just got more..or less interesting?

 

#9 2016-03-29 12:15:50

woofboxer
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Re: # Brooks Brothers Repp Stripe Tie


'I'm not that keen on the Average Look .......ever'. 
John Simons

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#10 2016-03-29 12:29:00

Armchaired
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Re: # Brooks Brothers Repp Stripe Tie

This is octothorpe !


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#11 2016-03-29 12:45:08

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Re: # Brooks Brothers Repp Stripe Tie

Last edited by katon (2016-03-29 12:48:05)

 

#12 2016-03-29 12:56:01

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#13 2016-03-29 13:19:35

woofboxer
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Re: # Brooks Brothers Repp Stripe Tie

Do you mean Trunk?


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#14 2016-03-29 13:35:39

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Re: # Brooks Brothers Repp Stripe Tie

T. Burrows?

 

#15 2016-03-29 14:46:05

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#16 2016-03-29 15:03:57

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Re: # Brooks Brothers Repp Stripe Tie


Randy lower-class trifler

 

#17 2016-03-29 15:07:54

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#18 2016-04-02 02:15:46

Horace
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Re: # Brooks Brothers Repp Stripe Tie

How many Repp no's were there?  I recall 1 and 2 but there were others.  Not necessarily in sequence.  I always thought ol Harris did a swell number when he commissioned the guy who was based here I think, but fled to Thailand at some point to make ties.  Sam Hober, I think?


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#19 2016-04-04 01:02:29

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#20 2016-04-04 01:55:02

woofboxer
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Re: # Brooks Brothers Repp Stripe Tie


'I'm not that keen on the Average Look .......ever'. 
John Simons

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#21 2016-05-22 00:12:52

Horace
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""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.

 

#22 2016-05-22 00:15:15

Horace
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Re: # Brooks Brothers Repp Stripe Tie


""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.

 

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