I wonder how often the truth about Permanent Style and Simon Crompton gets picked up on Google searches? By Simon Crompton, of course, I mean Cromps and Crompie.

PS I'd add to the Crompie reader's question something about Chittleborough & Morgan (bait the hook - as he'll be straight on to them, waving the reader's question, brown-nosing for another freebie) and lapel width and trouser 'kick-outs'!! Now he's really stuck because if (as he must) he ever sojourns on Devil's Island and chooses to ignore the question, posed by a seditious Buff, he foregoes the chance of the C&M freebie and we will know for sure that he drifts in here on his clinker-built PS raft - but, if he prints the Q&A, he will know that we'll be LOFSO over here. 

That's what I call really spinning on the horns of a dilemma!

Hey!

Last edited by Gilbert the Filbert (2013-12-13 04:33:18)

Tell us more.

I have also heard that he AND his Mrs are all knotted-up about being dis'd AND he signs his e-mails as - wait for it - yep:

'Founder of Permanent Style'.

I have to admit Comps has done an interesting interview with Colban from Charvet. Colban is a genius in the menswear business and creates some beautiful things which you cant find anywhere else, albeit with equally fabulous prices.

Does charvet really need to do this though? They are perhaps one of the most anti commercial habadashers out there .. infact the whole ethos is about producing obsessively made clothing for people who don't count the pennies. When you have a client list stretching back to napoleon it seems a bit odd to need to court Simon. Perhaps this is just an interview (from ft magazine which comps writes for aswell).

Last edited by dryplum (2013-12-26 06:30:17)

well he's not double sold the piece as he cant sell an article on his own blog .. but I see your point about not protecting the FTs property, seems strange that the FT would allow this sort of thing, frankly if I was the editor I wouldn't allow it as it undermines any reason slim as it is anyway for reading their brand of bland business reportage.

charvet though is fantastic at what it does at a risk of overpraising an already much vaunted brand .. the IGentry haven't really caught onto it properly, I assume because of cost of their products many wouldn't be interested, while the few who can choose to go to various Italian shirt makers for their 'handwork' and 'buttonholes' etc. I've always found Charvet do extravagance but in a very subtle refined way, in other words conceptually you may think that a colour they use or material would be outré but the dimensions they make something or the tone they use of an actual colour makes it look refined in a way that isn't shouty. That is the true genius of the people behind it. Lost on attention hungry plebeian dressers.

Last edited by dryplum (2013-12-26 08:15:36)

^Sounds like a classic closet homosexual to me, be careful, less this expresses itself in being a serial killer. Homosexual serial killers tend to be even more sadistic and depraved than the heterosexual variety.

Last edited by dryplum (2013-12-26 11:53:47)