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#26 2021-11-30 02:00:25

Staxfan
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Re: New In At Chiltern Street...

I tried on the 40??  in the tweed, a bit neat, Tom said most people have to size up, didn’t have a 42??  in stock,

 

#27 2021-11-30 02:07:03

Runninggeez
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Re: New In At Chiltern Street...

Stax, yesterday I checked all of their Ivy League Jackets on line, didn't appear to be any 40's or 42's yesterday. Did they say they were getting anymore in ?

 

#28 2021-11-30 04:04:58

Staxfan
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Re: New In At Chiltern Street...

Runninggeez - I can't recall if Tom said they were re-stocking the tweed jackets, but he did say they're getting in more overcoats, so I guess it is possible,
Just for sizing purposes I tried on a 42 (52) in the cord IL jkt, came up big, apparently they size up differently in different materials,
Robbie - maybe less TKM purchases , and a few quality purchases, less is more.... and now your Good Lady is in the UK with you maybe she'll stop you going out head to foot in green , haha

 

#29 2021-11-30 05:05:01

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Re: New In At Chiltern Street...

I don't know about that. I'm at Lakeside standing outside M&S


'I am a closet optimist' Leonard Cohen.

 

#30 2021-11-30 09:31:45

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Re: New In At Chiltern Street...

Yes, on both Harris tweeds I would size up.The weight on the tweed bulks these up a bit.
On their other jackets I take a regular size.
Their website doesn’t do these two jackets justice. The fabric is superb

 

#31 2021-11-30 09:45:37

A Fine Sadness
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The Stanley Blacker I bought at the weekend is - at least on the face of it - pretty similar.  I thought I'd just about had it with Harris but this ticked most of the right boxes. 
I love all that schtick about the Bebop revolution - up to a point.

 

#32 2021-11-30 09:56:24

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Re: New In At Chiltern Street...

If it's darted, they're very discreet indeed.  I'm hoping not.

 

#33 2021-11-30 11:16:35

A Fine Sadness
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Re: New In At Chiltern Street...

Whoever wears the Harris first, please comment.

 

#34 2021-11-30 18:28:28

slimmm67
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Re: New In At Chiltern Street...

He who Harris wins.

 

#35 2021-12-11 04:14:33

Staxfan
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Weller was interviewed on Robert Elms yesterday, got a plug in for those new jumpers, I think most of us agree Elms is often up his own rear but for me I was disappointed when the bbc cut him down to 3 days p/wk, looks like they had a good day with the jumpers, not for me and probably not for most here.....

 

#36 2021-12-11 04:20:28

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Re: New In At Chiltern Street...

Stax, they're apparently well made, but, no, probably too fey for many.

 

#37 2021-12-11 05:01:06

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Stax I can understand your disappointment with Robert Elms programme being cut back. Did he want it himself or was he told?
When I worked from home I used to listen every day and I liked the architectural contributions from Max. However, after a while he becomes repetitive in what he says and his music playlist. When I once phoned in there was an arrogance from his producer that I didn't like. Robert cut me short and my minute contribution was distorted. He reminds me of Jamie Oliver. I feel I should like him but there is something of the tosser about him.
And he has led every youth movement since the 60s!


'I am a closet optimist' Leonard Cohen.

 

#38 2021-12-11 05:08:37

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Elms' book is unintentionally hilarious.  I remember reading it on a bus coming back from Nottingham in around 2005.  It struck a chord or two about school, though, where the middle-class types waffled about Genesis and the hard nuts were getting all worked up over Wigan.  But he even got stuck in to that short-lived Glenn Miller revival.  Just went wandering from one fad to another.  Up here, of course, we're more likely to hear the ghost of Wolfman Jack than Elms.

 

#39 2021-12-11 05:46:54

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Re: New In At Chiltern Street...

Weller, FFS, get a haircut.

 

#40 2021-12-11 09:06:14

Kingston1an
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Elms used his posh voice when talking to Max, but the subject matter was interesting.

Simon Ledermans London bus journeys were my favourite. Interesting viewpoints on various areas.

Also the various questions to listeners about various bits of London trivia - the Greek shop in North London that always had watermelon prominently displayed etc.

Not particularly interested in the music or who produced the best version of a track. Though he sometimes had experts with interesting stories - the Stones keyboard player Nicky Hopkins who lived in Perivale, how tight-fisted Rod Stewart was, what a terrible father Ian Dury was etc.

I only listened in the car. I missed the end of several short plays on Radio 4 because of that. Audio plays give scope for the imagination. Not sure the intended audience, though I assumed middle class women of a certain age.


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#41 2021-12-11 09:17:25

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Robbie - it was the BBC that made the decision, for me the current format doesn’t work that well , yes he did repeat himself a lot and talked about his football team too much and made snide remarks about mine, but a lot of the programme content was good, notes & queries from ordinary Londoners that sounded like me and probably you, ( unless you’ve gone posh !), he covered a lot of stuff that many of us could relate to, I don’t bother listening to Eddie ? as it’s just a phone in same as he did at ‘drivetime ‘ where IMO it’s better suited,
AFS yes PW needs to sort his Barnett out, but I like (most) of his solo music, again he’s not everyone’s choice but his output over 40+ years is phenomenal, I guess the PW x JS stuff is a bit of an ego trip for him but it definitely helps the shop, and as we’ve said plenty of times it ain’t gonna survive waiting for us lot to spend there, and finally did you see that attractive lady sporting one of the jumpers on the JS Facebook ... nice

 

#42 2021-12-11 11:01:40

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Sorry, but I decided Weller's music was sub-Kinks back in 1976/77, shite pretty much after that.  Another champagne socialist.  Actually, after seeing that mob of his bollox up 'Harvest For The World' on TV (Christ knows why I was watching in the first place) I stopped paying much attention.  He needs to put an end to it before he ends up as redundant as Jagger, Townsend, that prick Brian May with his poodle perm and all those other geriatrics.

 

#43 2021-12-11 11:13:44

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I will give Robert Elms another listen but I bet he mentions QPR and his Alma Mater the LSE. I used to think he would be a good bloke to have a beer with but I heard you can't get a word in edgeways in his company. Jamie Oliver apparently is 'difficult' off camera. I have heard Rod Stewart is really tight and he spends a lot of time in Essex these days so I might bump into him one day.HaHa
Stax Elms is only jealous of your clubs recent success.


'I am a closet optimist' Leonard Cohen.

 

#44 2021-12-11 11:19:16

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Elms threw a hissy fit when his Mum - who'd scrimped and scraped - failed to buy him the right pair of jeans.  Then he thought it significant enough, when a grown adult, to write it down instead of hanging his head in shame.  Reminds me of that toerag Bryson, bullying some poor kid in McDonalds.

 

#45 2021-12-11 11:35:21

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Jamie Oliver has never impressed me. Gordon Ramsay impresses me greatly. A great deal can be learnt about cooking, restaurant management, people management and running a successful business from watching him.


some sort of banal legitimacy

 

#46 2021-12-11 11:47:27

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School I worked in was funny.  They banned all sweets, crisps, fizzy drinks etc.  But the sports hall next door had ample supplies of Mars Bars, Twirls, Coke, 7-Up whatever.  I happened to be on duty but turned a blind eye.  There were dark mutterings from Year Nine about what they'd do if they ever got their hands on Mr.Oliver.

 

#47 2021-12-12 05:41:04

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Re: New In At Chiltern Street...

It seem the JS/Weller fairisle sweaters have largely sold out with another batch scheduled to be released soon. Not my cup of tea but it was part of the ‘French Look’ in the 60s, so I’m told. It’s all cash in the till for our favourite shop.


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#48 2021-12-12 08:16:32

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No surprise there. From a business perspective, JS and Weller are a perfect combination. And in the words of Stax: 'it ain’t gonna survive waiting for us lot to spend there'.

Personally Weller's music does nothing for me but politically he was a breath of fresh air in the 1980s. I also regard the term 'champagne socialist' as totally idiotic. Anyone who is earning more than minimum wage is a hypocrite if they don't support neoliberalism or give away their wealth? Very facile thinking. No wonder such a term is so popular with the tabloids, or rather their owners. Personally I'm far more concerned about the likes of Murdoch than I am with the likes of Weller.


some sort of banal legitimacy

 

#49 2021-12-12 09:30:38

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Yuca, try talking from some other orifice than your arse.  People whose forebears were miners and dockworkers know precisely what they're talking about.  I know a fucking sham when I see one and Weller is a sham.  It tickled up mightily when he expressed the intentions of himself and the other pair in The Jam to vote for Mrs. Thatcher in '79 then spent a few years with a red face - oh, and then a Red Wedge.

 

#50 2021-12-12 09:33:50

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Oh, and as for Murdoch, you're a bit late to the game.  Snooty left-wingers were telling me they didn't soil their hands with 'the Murdoch press' thirty years ago.  Fifteen years ago, a very bright student of mine, left-leaning, was chuffed to bollocks to be given a job working for Sky.

 

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