More Crompton idiocy - http://permanentstyle.blogspot.com/2010 … oats.html.

He has ordered an overcoat from Graham Brown, on the grounds of cost (so he might be paying for it). Apparently blue is the right colour but - as the professional journalist tells us, utilising the style so readily at his command - a mid-grey is just as proper with demonstrating a touch of personality. Never mind that the personality being demonstrated is one with an inability to employ grammar and one which has asked for reverse pleats in the side seams - always useful if you have an enormous arse in the first place.

Apparently a bespoke overcoat - the one garment often available cheaply and well made as RTW, without many issues as to fit and thus easily and economically purchased - is necessary to make a man feel complete. Or, as Si puts it Nothing else makes a man feel more complete. Presumably he feels that without it he doesn't really get past third baste...

NJS wrote:

Big Tony wrote:

NJS wrote:

That's what I call a cheese and whine party. Do they rent those smiles with the DJs from Moss Bros and Lipsons? If not their faces must ache at the end of the evening.

sharia compliant securitization?

Yes, I was wondering about one of the other comments about 'schmozing' - mind you Linklaters are in there and they can give lessons in schmozing.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, as in my experience the "international money" crowd pay only lip service to things cultural and political. Whores for money, basically. The mug shots in that link look to me like a bunch of middle ranked finance bureaucrats on their annual outing (this is one 12 hour day they might aactually enjoy and a few will get laid).

This has nothing to do with Crompton, of course.

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More pillockdom from the man with the literary style to match his clothes. SC is currently puffing other style writers and Michael Drake - presumably in the hope of good references and freebies. The subject of this post is one Bruce Boyer (a sign that SC is trying to fool the Yanks all the time rather than the English as Boyer is largely an American legend). SC, of course, is ahead of the curve - "Of course, Boyer’s advice on buying a suit isn’t really aimed at me, but his insights on points of style are both eloquent and original". Good of you to say so.

Comparing Boyer's words and Compo's words shows the depth of respect that Compo has for the man. For example:

Boyer: "At a website like The London Lounge, you read what those guys say about clothes, and right away you get the impression that if you don’t fold your pocket square a certain way, none of them will ever speak to you. If you don’t have your shoes made by John Lobb or Cleverley, you’re nothing. So it matters to those guys. But apart from that, fashion is what it is.". Compo - post 10 on his Cleverley shoes - http://permanentstyle.blogspot.com/2010 … t-10.html.

Boyer, asked by Ivy Style about the forums: "It’s John Lobb London versus John Lobb Paris, and which one is better. That’s one reason why I don’t get involved. The other reason is that they’re amateurs, and I’m a professional, and I ought to get paid for my opinions.". Compo - "Boyer sadly lacking a blog of his own (bizarrely today, he actually gets paid for his writing)"

Oh yes: two peas from a single womb.

Roll me over, in the clover;
Roll me over etc., etc.,

What plagiaristic bollocks from Cromps.

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Quite frankly, almost everything on this blog is downright horrible. The "copy of an old Brioni travel blazer from the 1960s" is disgusting due to the stitching and terrible choice of buttons (reminder: just because it's from the 1960s doesn't mean the rules of taste don't apply). This man is a fool.

Now he's "using" Timothy Everest - http://permanentstyle.blogspot.com/2010 … erest.html

"The shots will also feature on Tim's excellent and rather eccentric blog, which I've been contributing to occasionally."

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Kingstonian wrote:

I also noticed he is getting more expensive stuff nowadays.

He is nowhere near as pretentious as Bown who seemed to inhabit a parallel fantasy world where you had worries such as badly placed braces harming the leather seats on your 'Royce'.

The blog is readable but caveat emptor. A lot of the stuff does not seem worth the trouble.

'A Suitable Wardrobe' is absolutely falling down with clothes for every day for the year. A lot of it is completely unnecessary but then it is a business and he probably runs out of things to say.

I kind of liked Bown.  There was something so over the top and so mincing about it.  I thought it was sort of put-on.

Crompton on the books of Manton and our own NJS- http://www.asuitthatfits.com/shop/index … Itemid=370

"Eric Musgrave’s new book, Sharp Suits is a very welcome addition to the literature on classic men’s tailoring. There is precious little of it about.
Alan Flusser dominates the field, with his most recent publication, Dressing the Man, a primer for everyone interested in classic menswear. Indeed, it’s so good that I stole from it for the title of my blog – the book is subtitled Mastering the Art of Permanent Style.

Beyond Flusser, there are idiosyncratic works like Nicholas Antongiavanni’s The Suit and Nicholas Storey’s History of Men’s Fashion. The first is a job pitch that is entertaining but feels the lack of illustrations; the second is an English barrister’s rather particular opinion on clothes, and isn’t really much of a history. There are others, but really Flusser is the only one I would recommend without qualification. Until now."

Bishop of Briggs wrote:

Crompton on the books of Manton and our own NJS- http://www.asuitthatfits.com/shop/index … Itemid=370

"Eric Musgrave’s new book, Sharp Suits is a very welcome addition to the literature on classic men’s tailoring. There is precious little of it about.
Alan Flusser dominates the field, with his most recent publication, Dressing the Man, a primer for everyone interested in classic menswear. Indeed, it’s so good that I stole from it for the title of my blog – the book is subtitled Mastering the Art of Permanent Style.

Beyond Flusser, there are idiosyncratic works like Nicholas Antongiavanni’s The Suit and Nicholas Storey’s History of Men’s Fashion. The first is a job pitch that is entertaining but feels the lack of illustrations; the second is an English barrister’s rather particular opinion on clothes, and isn’t really much of a history. There are others, but really Flusser is the only one I would recommend without qualification. Until now."

He also did a lengthy and very peculiar 'review' of my book I which he posted up across half a dozed or so sites that he must have links with (including the execrable "A Suit That Fits"). He seemed to find it hard to damn my book outright (given that he admitted that he had learned from it, that might have been hard to justify) but advised to buy anything by Flusser first, which showed, if anything, a lack of national pride. His puckering up over "Sharp Suits" flowed from.... well..... it flowed from the champagne that he drank at the book launch, where his rictus grin
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur … mp;bih=545

was on show.  It'll be interesting to see whether:
1. he tears into Book II;
2. He 'does a Chenners' and just pretends that it does not exist, or
3. he musters that mighty journo spirit and applies some objectivity to the test.

No freebies to, or from, Storey!

fxh wrote:

I like Sharp Suits - great photos - makes one think about what looks good over a wide range of styles.

I am sure that it is a very fine book  but the only pictures from it that I have seen are of epicene models in stunt suits (self-cloth buttons; highly suppressed waists etc), posing with gloves, winkle-pickers, brolly and Jeremy Thorpe felt hat, trying to emulate 'The Man of Mayfair' or someone out of 'Spring in Park Lane'.

Avgvstvs wrote:

http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=213091

Selling off some of his freebies?

No, that was my sales thread; despite the same initials we are not related.

Back on topic, when I was at the Drakes sample sale I overheard a conversation between Mr Crompton and a member of Drakes staff that suggested he was being offered his choice of the stock for no cash consideration. Unsurprisingly, we're now being treated to a number of posts on how wonderful Drakes are.

I have no doubts about the value for money offered by Graham Browne, but I'm left wondering whether Cromps pays for his garments from them any more given the impact he's had on their sales.

NJS wrote:

Still, if he can blag all these people into building him a free wardrobe, then: bully for him.

Hard to argue that......