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#1 2010-08-30 02:53:59
- Rip Rig & Panic
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John Smedley: Too Overground Now For My Liking
The second piece I ever bought was beautiful. A bottle green sea island cotton polo shirt with an exceptionally plain label. The first piece I sold on. We all make mistakes. Now, I'm slightly dubious. Maybe I should have been before, when the casuals got into it. I sold a merino jumper to some thug on Ebay a couple of years back and had no end of trouble with him. Typical Ebay nebbish. I think J.Simons offered it at one time then dropped it. I'm beginning to think that the Stone Island mob have battened on too hard and that it's time to look elsewhere. I don't know about Zegna. There must be undiscovered territory out there, hopefully in the USA.
#2 2010-08-30 03:04:47
- Moose Maclennan
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Re: John Smedley: Too Overground Now For My Liking
The Smedley crew in navy merino (and the Allen Solly for Brooks vintage job, bottle-green polo, net lore has it that these were knitted on the same machines) are the only merinos I've seen that exhibit that 'faerie knit' quality, they are as light as heavy cotton T-shirts.
#3 2010-08-30 03:30:02
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Re: John Smedley: Too Overground Now For My Liking
Yes, that's still an undeniably admirable quality.
#4 2010-08-30 03:43:52
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Re: John Smedley: Too Overground Now For My Liking
Hate it. Effeminate rubbish.
#5 2010-08-30 03:53:49
- Moose Maclennan
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Re: John Smedley: Too Overground Now For My Liking
You callin' me a poof Zuckermandl?
#6 2010-08-30 03:58:01
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Re: John Smedley: Too Overground Now For My Liking
Contrary to lies of FNB and Woofboxer, I (and most of the other "Buff Bastards") have been banned from posting on this forum. There are only a few posters left so don't waste your time on here. This forum is dead and nobody cares.
#7 2010-08-30 04:02:05
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Re: John Smedley: Too Overground Now For My Liking
Play nicely people. He is entitled to his opinion.
We had enough battles between the Wardrobe and Talk Ivy.
I intend to get Smedley after Portillo's TV programme visited the factory. I don't like the stuff in Bentalls though. Something more conservative but well made would suit.
#8 2010-08-30 04:07:30
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Re: John Smedley: Too Overground Now For My Liking
Contrary to lies of FNB and Woofboxer, I (and most of the other "Buff Bastards") have been banned from posting on this forum. There are only a few posters left so don't waste your time on here. This forum is dead and nobody cares.
#9 2010-08-30 04:30:51
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Re: John Smedley: Too Overground Now For My Liking
No suggestion on my part that the product is anything but the finest quality. Their polo shirts are the finest you can buy. It's just the Stone Island crowd I'm having a pop at.
#10 2010-08-30 04:45:16
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Re: John Smedley: Too Overground Now For My Liking
I did enjoy seeing it in Florence in 2007. Together with the famous brand of chocolates they used to make just off our high street. The now demolished Assembly Rooms used to be just down the street from their factory. GIs used to go there during the war to hear dance music.
#13 2010-08-30 06:11:29
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Re: John Smedley: Too Overground Now For My Liking
Contrary to lies of FNB and Woofboxer, I (and most of the other "Buff Bastards") have been banned from posting on this forum. There are only a few posters left so don't waste your time on here. This forum is dead and nobody cares.
#14 2010-08-30 06:17:21
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Re: John Smedley: Too Overground Now For My Liking
Quite. I'm sure that what St Andrews and Edinburgh have built their reputation on. No wonder Scruton's there these days. Who could resist the siren-call of a world-class reputation in 'garment engineering' and 'fibre technology'?
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#16 2010-08-30 06:34:12
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Re: John Smedley: Too Overground Now For My Liking
Randy lower-class trifler
#17 2010-08-30 06:41:09
- Hard Bop Hank
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Re: John Smedley: Too Overground Now For My Liking
I'm a Smedley poof, too:
the long sleeve polo collars, turtlenecks, crew necks and v-necks...
shades of blue, grey, bottle green, maroon...
merino, cashmere, sea island cotton...
they don't have exterior labels, now, do they?
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#18 2010-08-30 06:43:37
- Hard Bop Hank
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Re: John Smedley: Too Overground Now For My Liking
Just checked their website... some ugly stuff there, but they still got the classics... and no logos on the outside!
Don't know what they got to do with Stone Island nutters... Maybe nothing is safe from Football hooligans?
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#19 2010-08-30 07:01:40
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Re: John Smedley: Too Overground Now For My Liking
Contrary to lies of FNB and Woofboxer, I (and most of the other "Buff Bastards") have been banned from posting on this forum. There are only a few posters left so don't waste your time on here. This forum is dead and nobody cares.
#20 2010-08-30 07:03:35
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Re: John Smedley: Too Overground Now For My Liking
Sorry, got ahead of myself there- he is going to be at St Andrews from next year onwards.
#21 2010-08-30 07:35:48
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Re: John Smedley: Too Overground Now For My Liking
Can we simply agree that this is a matter of taste?
Scruton was at Birbeck in my day. Some bod who lived on Keele campus with his 'partner' was a colleague. He looked askance when I asked him to open yet another bottle of wine and told him I couldn't understand a dicky-bird Scruton wrote. I'd been reading Maurice Cowling's collection of 'Conservative Essays'. Shirley Robin Letwin was also in there. My elder daughter, then a tot, was at this leftist bod's son's birthday party and I was passing the time by drinking and eating delicate little sandwiches. I was still frequently pissed to the gills back then.
I do not see what Scruton has to do with Smedley.
I like cashmere and merino.
Chris H likes Smedley.
Casuals liked it, too.
Now stop it.
#24 2010-08-30 07:47:48
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