Film Noir Buff Style Forum / Is Simon Crompton the new Francis Bown?

NJS · 2011-03-12 06:03:05

Why does a Brazilian push-biker laboriously ride up the hill and walk down the other side?

Bishop of Briggs · 2011-03-12 08:06:36

formby · 2011-03-12 09:28:01

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NJS · 2011-03-12 10:44:28

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Grossgrain Silk · 2011-03-12 12:44:28

Compo has just managed to persuade Poole to make him a suit. No word on how it's being paid for, as per usual.

NJS · 2011-03-12 13:52:12

I left a comment asking whether he is paying or blagging for it. But he chose to ignore it. As he did this comment on pearl cufflinks:

"Pearl is a particularly thoughtless choice for cufflinks, as the cuffs get rubbed on things - tables for a start, and pearls are soft; cultured pearls will peel and you'll be left with glass balls (so to speak)."

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Gilgamesh2003 · 2011-04-01 11:45:05

http://www.competitivecyclist.com/product-accessories/2011-rapha-embrocation-8557.330.1.html

Perhaps Cromps would be interested in rubbing this artisanal dick cream on his nether regions and reporting the results on his blog?

Bishop of Briggs · 2011-06-01 04:40:32

Crompton's latest mug, sorry sponsor, is none other than the God of the iGents - http://www.permanentstyle.co.uk/2011/06/rubinacci-cashmere-jacket-1-cloth.html

"The next series to feature on Permanent Style will look at the making of a cashmere jacket at Neapolitan tailor Rubinacci, based on interviews and fittings with Mariano and Luca in London and a visit to the Naples workrooms to see it being made. "

Note that he now calls his list of freebies a "series" - "For those interested in these series, you can see previous ones on Henry Poole (DB glen check suit), Huntsman (tweed shooting suit), GJ Cleverley (bespoke Oxofrd shoes) Turnbull & Asser (bespoke shirt) and Graham Browne (navy DB suit and polo coat) at those links."

Personally, I regard his freebie suits as classic examples of "misspoke" tailoring. They are the poorest examples of work that I have seen from those Row firms.

Kingstonian · 2011-06-01 05:00:25

NJS · 2011-06-01 08:52:57

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Kingstonian · 2011-06-01 09:18:13

^ Fair play to Bown though, his suits always seemed to fit him well, whether they were blagged or paid for.

NJS · 2011-06-01 09:21:36

g- · 2011-06-01 22:24:30

At some level, should we not assume that the maker of the suit, shoes, name your item, feel pinched and really wish they could say no to Cromps? Ceratinly there is the unspoken --perhaps spoken--fear that he will trash you. He trashed the traveling tailor. Hmm. I know for a fact that at least one person has felt that they had no choice but to make something for Cromps. I have always wondered whether Manton paid for that silly jacket he had made by AS. Would make a lot more sense if they had actually wished they weren't making something for him.

Bishop of Briggs · 2011-06-02 04:08:21

NJS · 2011-06-02 06:38:50

Bishop, I am sure that the implied threat inherent in "Hi! I am a blogger on men's style. Make me a suit/shoes/shirt so that I can comment on it" is, near as damn it, a Sicilian-style protection racket, as the makers plainly fear that, if they don't cave in, they might be trashed - what they don't realize is that, if they told Cromps where to stick his blog, it would make them feel much better and they would come to no harm as Cromps can hardly say "XYZ Ltd are stinkers for not making me a freebie".

Speaking for myself, I just do not understand the brass neck that can walk into one of these shops, especially in these times, knowing of all their overheads and pressures, and make these 'requests'. The frequency and degree of it, in the case of Cromps, seems amazing and he is probably regarded, in the West End, as the 'Lucky Luciano' of his day - but just not as well dressed: at least they can exact that pay-back - and justify it with their quirky humour. Huntsman and Poole, so far, have been stung once each but he seems to be bleeding A&S - that tweed suit and then more than one DB, in return for their website and blog - surely their savvy young owner could have had that set up for £1000-£2000 from an ordinary web geek?

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Bishop of Briggs · 2011-06-02 08:19:24

I don't think that any Row firm has anything to fear from being trashed by Crompton. Companies can sue for libel and slander to protect their reputations. Crompton does have a clear commercial relationship with A&S so it's strange that Huntsman and Poole have "co-operated" with him.

NJS · 2011-06-02 08:32:07

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anotherinterestedobserver · 2011-06-02 08:55:56

Words on the Row are that the freebies are for the heavy featuring of Huntsman and Poole in his forthcoming book, Le snob guide to tailoring.

NJS · 2011-06-02 09:10:30

Gilgamesh2003 · 2011-06-02 09:39:11

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NJS · 2011-06-02 09:54:22

Cromps is the new Chenners.

Ali Kebab · 2011-06-05 08:15:28

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