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#1 2011-09-02 07:20:27
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Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
I've always loved that story, told so briefly by Hill Rise. But why did he feel he had to do it? Christ, I look at my Burberrys' and think it's in a disgraceful condition. Car tyres?
#2 2011-09-08 02:32:11
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
My collection of Ian stories continues to grow from Mr. Simons & from Ian's one time girlfriend from down in The Forest of Dean... The more you hear the more fascinating he is, from his policeman father who only spoke once a year to the famous 10 pints story.
I'm going to remember him in the backroom of The Ivy Shop eating a pizza that Mr. Lally had run out to get him, flicking through a porn mag, and not setting foot in the shop for most of the afternoon, leaving the ultra-capable Mr. Lally to rule the roost.
Oh - And sitting in his chair in the shop watching the customers come in and either nodding Hello or frowning intensely at them.
A very stylish man.
Why throw his Mac down in the middle of the road to watch it get repeatedly run over? Because he was Ian !
A real Face's Face -
#3 2011-09-08 03:04:58
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
Jim, you mustn't mind me digging for these little treasures every once in a while. I just wish Hill Rise had elaborated.
#4 2011-09-08 05:18:03
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
S'fine.
Hill Rise was there & knows so much. Remembered well by both IS & JS.
#5 2011-09-08 09:15:57
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
Hang on - wasn't that my story? Ian told me he put his new Burberry Trench 21 in a carrier bag and left it in the road in Hill Rise for a few cars to go over it to take the newness out of it.
GG
#6 2011-09-08 09:17:28
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
In a bloody carrier bag?
#7 2011-09-08 09:18:29
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
Anybody know how he's keeping?
#8 2011-09-08 09:19:10
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
This is a new story!
Mike Dove's didn't have the carrier bag element.
#12 2011-09-08 09:32:47
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
In conversation IS rated his Baracuta & London Fog raincoats higher.
#13 2011-09-08 09:34:14
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
#14 2011-09-08 09:34:31
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
Interesting. I have a Baracuta trench. A great coat in foul weather.
#15 2011-09-08 09:38:09
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
IS had the same & was very proud to walk into the 346 on Madison wearing his only to be told that he was wearing a Brooks Trench by them. He very happily contradicted them.
#16 2011-09-08 09:49:57
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
I miss the little Glaswegian guy who was always in a stone Harrington, Levis and penny loafers. Hard as nails but sweet with everyone, especially Lally. I think he broke into the shop once but they forgave him. Then there was Lally's Spanish wife who was, shall we say, rather an emotional lady, who used to turn up in the middle of the afternoon in her nightie and just park herself in the chair by the door where customers tried on shoes. Lally used to have to pay the cabbie from the till. IS despised her...
GG
#17 2011-09-08 09:52:07
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
I've sort of given up on the idea of a '21'. Especially as the Baracuta cost only about $15. It stank.
#18 2011-09-08 09:54:34
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
The Trench 21 is a monster. Trench coats are molto brutto I reckon. THOUGH - I still love it when JS, IS, GM, KL, TM et al wear theirs. Just make me look like the squarest thing on the planet. I look like an insurance salesman in one.
GG
#19 2011-09-08 09:56:09
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
Dexter Gordon looks the biz in your book. I look like a tramp in the Baracuta.
#22 2011-09-08 16:00:05
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
His liver coloured brogues maybe? ........
Ian Strachan was a really good bloke, no frills just a nice bloke ...... Couldn't do enough for people he liked .... Not so good for people he didn't like .....
#23 2011-09-09 00:09:46
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
Nice to hear from you, HR.
#24 2011-09-09 00:52:09
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
Seconded.
Scottish Roger's liver must be a real work of art - 'Ard as nails.
#25 2022-07-13 04:08:27
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Re: Ian Strachan's Beige Raincoat...
A good story is, for those who don't know it (plus some who do), worth repeating.