...´´meanwhile, it´s back to navel-gazing.´´

I see that Crompie asked himself to the Bespoke Tailors' Benevolent Association summer ball. Mind you, with all the free suits, he should be the guest of honour. No fawning photographs of Tim Everest and Richard James though - and no cozying-up to James Sherwood either. But now Crompie has 'done' Terry Haste for a cream linen suit. I wonder where he got the idea for the buttonhole from. At this point, I have to say that my contempt for Crompie just has to give way to something approaching a reluctant admiration. Anybody who can blag this many suits from one end of the Row to the other (and regardless of the inconsistent result) has to be given maximum points for: perseverance, mastery of the art of covert menace, as well as rubbery-thick skin and very long neck indeed. To have the whole Row trembling, in gradually browning trouser-seats, for Crompie's imprimatur, makes Crompie - damn it - when you think about it (and wholly overlooking his residence in Peckham Rye) - our century's Brummell - and I give you 'Beau Crompton'. Quite a ring to it.

Now he is 'doing' Gieves & Hawkes for a leather jacket! Picking their pockets right under their noses! From end to end of the Row. Aside from my sneaky admiration for the Cromps-machine, I have to say that I am also developing a disdain for the frightened crawlers of SR who are too weak to tell him to bugger off the first time! Rabbits in the undipped headlights of the Cromps-mobile - zoom - splaaaa...t... Maybe all this Iti-tailoring stuff is right after all...I mean he has 'taken' fewer of them.

However, overall, I think that Cromps is much more the next Horatio Bottomley (con-man trickster) than the next Francis Bown (fairly amiable old fart).

Only a clueless tit would give a flying f@@k about a Royal Warrant.

I find Crompie rather amusing. All his blind-leading-the-blind tips and regurgitation of what he has JUST been told - and then all his little tricks. It's rather like watching a hamster on a wheel; spinning, spinning, always spinning...I would, though, like to see much more piss-taking - because the fellow has no insight at all and probably doesn't even believe that anyone could diss him.

Last edited by Gilbert the Filbert (2013-07-17 09:23:14)

^ I'd like to believe you but Crompie is getting a bespoke suit made by Chittleborough & Morgan and a bespoke leather jacket (how naff!) made by Gieves & Hawkes.

Most businessmen don't understand the internet so it's easy for them to be conned with jargon and BS, especially statistics. The problem is that the press and magazines use the same journalists/bloggers. There are few, if any, clothing writers with knowledge or experience of tailoring and cloth manufacture. It's all "style" hype and PR to justify high prices and big margins, especially in RTW. In the recession, it's the small independent retailers who are suffering.