Who have you got in mind?

Terry Tibbs?

A lot of bald men have a sense of mission, sometimes it can be twisted and all that drive chanelled in the wrong direction, I am thinking about the Hood in Thunderbirds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYHK1swlUEE

Crompie is certainly exposing his bald patch today, in his second fitting for a Chittleborough & Morgan suit. From the top he looks like my old granfer in 1948. A commentator asked him the difference between a close fit and a tight fit in the seat. Surely, the right answer is: 'about an octave'. Anyway, Crompie was once at certain pains to make the point that he prefers playing with his family and bicycling (take 2) - yes, bicycling - to drinking cocktails - but the C&M suit has such big lapels that he tells us that it will become his 'cocktail' suit. Of course, the question arises why it was that Crompie didn't specify the lapel size in the first place and decline the braces (which he says that he dislikes) - maybe it's because he has no control over freebies and accepts that he must let the tailors use him as a dummy when he blags suits.

One question that exercises me is: how long will it be before Crompie looks into blagging a bespoke Frank Sinatra-style 'rug' and treat us to a comparative study of materials (squirrel, human and hog bristle) and construction methods (curled and tied) across - New York, London, Paris and Naples? Before long we might know the wig equivalent of Goodyear construction and, as we all age together, that is probably no bad thing.

Last edited by Dudley Clarke (2013-07-03 06:19:05)