Film Noir Buff Style Forum / How I Learned to Hate the Harrington

Rip Rig & Panic · 2010-09-22 11:14:12

Olive are said to be rare. I've never seen one. I used to like the Prince of Wales check examples I used to see circa 1972.

Moose Maclennan · 2010-09-23 00:30:53

Those Horror-Harries are nothing new incidentally. I had a tartan-lined DPM one in the mid-eighties.

shamrockmonkey · 2010-09-23 01:04:58

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Moose Maclennan · 2010-09-23 06:59:36

Could be tempted by an olive Harrington. The cheapos are pretty bombproof jackets with a cosier lining than Baracuta.

Hard Bop Hank · 2010-09-23 07:56:12

Moose Maclennan · 2010-09-23 08:00:29

Rip Rig & Panic · 2010-09-23 08:00:45

Thank you, Hank. You're quite right.

Doug · 2010-09-28 04:47:53

Pased two beauts on the way to work this morning who took my mind right back to this thread - both in scaffy horrible cheapo Harringtons with scargill haircuts, roll-ups and clod hoppers.

But, that still doesn't mean a G9 or any other decent jacket can't be worn with a) loafers and b) some semblance of grace! It just means the less sartorially endowed can pick up nasty cheap copies of decent items and wear them poorly.

Rip Rig & Panic · 2010-10-18 11:42:01

There are just some things I can no longer wear: the G9, Pendleton shirts, tasselled loafers.

colin · 2010-10-18 12:45:47

I have always thought tassel loafers were bad. I wear my london fog once in a while. I'll keep you posted on the pendleton!

Bishop of Briggs · 2010-10-18 13:17:15

Yuca · 2010-10-18 14:02:37

Rip Rig & Panic · 2010-10-18 14:11:15

A Harrington in 2010 is bollocks. End of story.

Yuca · 2010-10-18 14:12:46

Rip Rig & Panic · 2010-10-18 15:06:11

Yuca · 2010-10-18 15:51:11

As long as the quality remains I will continue to wear them; the zips and tags of today's G9s are nasty but overall I still rate them, a design classic. To this day I have never actually seen anyone else (outside photos) wearing a G9; perhaps if the G9 became more ubiquitous it would put me off. I doubt it though.

However my love for the G9 is pretty minor compared to your hatred for it Rip.

A mod horror movie: Rip dies and some evil enemy (not me I hasten to add) sticks a Harrington on his corpse just before he is buried. Rip's ghost then spends an hour or so causing mayhem before a fellow Harrington hater helps him find eternal rest. Cue low budget special effects and gratuitous sex and violence.

Sorry to be morbid Rip but it is an idea. Some good scenery in the Deryshire hills I'm sure.

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shamrockmonkey · 2010-10-18 23:43:49

Rip Rig & Panic · 2010-10-19 08:56:06

Sports Fan · 2010-10-20 01:52:47

I'm sure that's not the intention, since the shop pages are not in public domain yet. The official http://www.johnsimons.co.uk/ page is just the front page. As someone said, usually web page development is usually done "behind the scenes". It's way too early to be underwhelmed by anything.

Hard Bop Hank · 2010-10-20 04:46:06

Moose Maclennan · 2010-10-20 05:12:28

heikki k · 2010-10-20 05:14:13

hank spot on.

although i understand rrp's points completely i'd argue that the clicheness of the g9 depends very much on ahow and where you wear it. might be a mothership of cliches if one walked into the bright new jsa shop wearing levis, weejuns, ocbd and g9 but it certainly ain't one over here. i never see anyone wearing said combo over here as the only other bloke in town into this thing of ours has moved to helsinki. that said, on local footy games i might see a harrington ort two, but they are always fred perry, or, much worse crap, some 'hooligan streetwear', 'pit bull' or the like. and not a pair of pennies in sight, nowhere. all this has much to do with context.

and, god forbid, should i ever have the cash / time to travel to the old smoke, i'd probably go to the brand new jsa shop wearing said combination, if nowt else, but a piss-take.

heikki k · 2010-10-20 05:15:17

Hard Bop Hank · 2010-10-20 05:27:54

Hard Bop Hank · 2010-10-20 05:29:15

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