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#1 2009-12-03 13:25:17
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Well Hung?
Let's talk hangers...
Brooks used to have a lovely hanger that they'd send you when you mail ordered a jacket from them in one of their big Blue boxes.
Smooth, but unfinished, unvarnished blonde wood with dull metal fittings.
- No names, no logos, just a great hanger, very well suited to the natural shoulder (Narrow 'blades' on it).
Press never sent hangers. You ordered a jacket, you got a jacket.
Am I remembering correctly?
The ol' Brooks hanger was the best!
How do you hang?
#2 2009-12-03 13:29:59
- Trad to the Bone
- Member
- Posts: 175
Re: Well Hung?
And the new brooks hanger, this plastic abomination with blades like 747 wings, is terrible. They started, I think, at the outlet stores, but now I see them at the bb retail stores as well. 346 Madison still has nice wooden hangers (and I suspect the nicer of the BB suit lines in all stores offer them). But they're not like you remember them. Blonde wood, but finished and with a descrete BB logo.
Love the Press hangers. dark wood with a goden Press logo.
TB
#3 2009-12-03 13:47:55
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: Well Hung?
I must measure an old Brooks hanger & post it up here tomorrow - Mine will be a 38R.
TTTB's point about the blades is key - Put a natural shoulder jacket on a fat hanger and it doesn't hang correctly. It causes the material to hang in folds & swags like the stage curtains at the Opera House.
Sloppy.
Also the angle of the blades is important too. For the natural shoulder they need to have the correct angle of 'droop'.
All of this was a science and Brooks got it right. Once.
Last edited by Russell_Street (2009-12-03 13:51:17)
#4 2009-12-03 13:54:41
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: Well Hung?
My thanks to Heikki K. who inspired this thread.
#7 2009-12-04 04:07:15
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: Well Hung?
- Just looked at those hangers advertised on Mr. Chinfolds' Ivy-Sty blog - Not one is suitable for the Ivy style Natural Shoulder.
He should get them to produce an Ivy Style special edition.
Pronto.
#8 2009-12-04 04:12:08
- mike
- Member
- From: Covington, KY
- Posts: 1397
Re: Well Hung?
why yes folks i am,
ba-duh-bump, thanks folks im here all week
You love him? He is hephaistion.
#9 2009-12-04 04:19:51
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: Well Hung?
I dare you to put up that foreskin chart of yours which grades willies in the most scientific way.
We can vote on which is the Traddest!
#11 2009-12-04 07:18:48
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: Well Hung?
It was a fantastic chart, though, todgers all rated & classified from A1 to 26Z.
The perfect Prong Pyramid !
#13 2009-12-04 07:52:17
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: Well Hung?
This could be fun - PM Mike for the chart & then post your grade up here?
Only fellow graders will have any clue as to what the hell is going on.
- I have a No.9 'Mushroom' with a size 8 'Collar'. My 'Stem' is a 'Bentley' above two 'Maris Pipers'.
I am also closest to 'Cinnamon' on the Todgetastic Spectrum.
... You?
#14 2009-12-04 08:09:58
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: Well Hung?
... But sadly on 'The Wheel Of Wangdom' I'm only an 'Etonian'...
#17 2009-12-04 08:49:30
- AQG
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- From: The Sticks
- Posts: 1306
Re: Well Hung?
I haven't seen the chart, but like most American men, my model is not storm-welted. That's really only desirable in the sloppiest of conditions. Otherwise, a sleeker cut is preferred.