How fast were you running?

^^Lovely.

Great shoes and post Oliver. It's nice to know something about the vintage stuff you're wearing.

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Hahaha.  I knew Stan would get the reference, but thought it may otherwise go unnoticed.   I'm not being serious, Tommy.  I love my Imperials.

Ha thanks everyone... I'm pretty gassed on these shoes but I do still love my old Imperials too. I got the Roblees from the same seller as the brown Clubman sack in the picture which fits like a dream. It came along with 4-5 other jackets and a deadstock camelhair overcoat for around $200; not bad for a day's work!

I popped into Cable Car the other day before a lunchtime stroll through North Beach and the front staff are such jackoffs. After trying to sell me some vanity sized Southwick Cambridge fashion jacket in a 40R (along with every other stock item I happened to glance at) one particularly annoying dude flipped my lapel and commented "3/2... nice" then asked me if I bought it from Cable Car... sheesh. He proceeded to bullshit me about how they're the only shop that stocks Southwick's Douglas Stateside. I responded that O'Connell's does as well, along with several dozen other regional stockists listed on Southwick's website, and he tried to save face by mumbling something about how they're the only ones who sell them off the rack; what the hell else would you sell them off, the floor?? I flipped through some Southwick swatches and mentioned that I had a jacket length of Harris Tweed blackwatch that I'd like to have tailored in the Douglas cut and inquired whether they'd be willing to send it off if I did another custom order through them. The guy asked me whether it was from Italy... I repeated it was a Harris tweed and he pulled out a tropical worsted blackwatch and asked if it was similar. Things took a turn for the worse when he compared himself to a local tailor who offers MTM services - something that Cable Car does not do. Apparently filling a custom order for a house cut from Southwick in standard stock sizing makes you a MTM tailoring service, despite the fact that it's neither being made to measure nor cut and tailored by Mr. Salesman. After a few more hard sales attempts at an ugly Borsalini hat and some madras bowties (I inquired whether they sourced the cloth directly or placed an order from the maker and the guy pressed it up against my shirt collar and told me I should buy it!) I finally had enough, rolled my eyes and walked out.

The fact that he commented on your 3/2 is still bothering me.  You should have said "yeah man.  I've always wanted to hit up the 'trip C' to see where the 3/2 originated."