^ Sarsons vinegar factory used to be a landmark on the South Lambeth Road and also near Tower Bridge. It went back hundreds of years and the owners were local MPs and benevolant industrialists, they founded the local ragged school for example. Today a selfish globalist creed has replaced benevolent paternalism.

http://www.vauxhallcivicsociety.org.uk/history/beaufoy-vinegar-factory/

BBC British Style Genius:

Street Style:

Part I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsAwqT61Gzg

Part II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7SjJt6fjr4

Part III

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbm6_FqjEHA

Part IV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Mpd5N1ISs

Part V

Not found

Part VI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDbsgH7MDW8


Full, episode on Dailymotion.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnim8k_british-style-genius-the-street-look_shortfilms

Last edited by formby (2013-09-18 14:25:03)

Well, it's you who think i am always speaking about the upper class. I am often speaking about the middle class. And i am usually not speaking about an inherited class but a class that taste originates around. I think lower class enthusiasm does at least two things to clothing taste (Maybe three) and that is to try to emulate it and thus study to a tee that which is imponderable to the original wearers and to make the clothing lose caste which drives the original wearers to choose something else. I think also, the concept of "cool" is a lower class thing. Most of the best British tailors and designers seem to be working class people with a strong passion for the finer things in life. I respect that.

Wasn't that Marc Bolan who read about Brummell?

Yes, Brummell was middle class but that's the American hero in the USA, not the upstart. All gentleman are equal; that's the sort of class I am speaking of. You prefer "tribe" and that's fine. But everyone else gets to say class!

Anyway, smashing series Formby, thanks.

In my personal experience, as long as you have a funny posh voice, the madder you act the posher you are perceived as being in England.

The same behaviour with a different accent will land you in the cells.

Why doesn't everybody put on a daft posh voice in England ?

I honestly believe that it would cut the rate of reported crimes.

The line between attempted rape and 'Dear me, Jimmy was ridiculously frisky last night wasn't he? The bitch must be in season...' is largely one drawn by vowel sounds.



- I am a wonderful eccentric, you are a much loved local character, he is f*cking nutter. But we all behave the same, just talk differently.

And 'being nuts' covers up a lack of background / creativity / intelligence / education / ability     wonderfully in England.

You just need to do it in the right voice.

Trust me.

48 years and counting...


My name is pronounced Frawst, by the way...