Last edited by Patrick (2014-01-14 09:19:39)

Last edited by Gilbert the Filbert (2014-01-14 10:15:24)

you have hit the nail on the head Cat .. it struck me as a bit passé to boast about fraternising with showgirls, its a very 50s thing as you say & would be lost on most men under ~60. Interesting marketing strategy, Wills trying to go for the OAP luxury goods buyer. Well they've got all the money .. & creeping senility perhaps helps make them more credible than everyone else.

Last edited by dryplum (2014-01-15 05:54:25)

I just wonder when ASW is going to stock those Samuel Pepys-style 17th C., sheep's bladder preservatives, complete with papal red-silk fastenings, for that late evening, blackened-whangee-swinging swagger along L'Avenue des Champs-Élysées.

Last edited by Gilbert the Filbert (2014-01-15 07:52:14)

This is why I never travel to the continent without a trunk, my manservant, Praiseworthy, and a young traveling companion, invariably the son of some socially striving attorney or middling merchant. After a full day of taking in the sights along the Grand Tour (of course, leaving our calling cards with acquaintances of acquaintances before setting out) it is time to show the young innocent how one plays when abroad. Cads that we are we leave the girls wanting more, and perhaps we did induce them with faint promises, but caste is caste, and it is all just good fun to us!