Description of a Baracuta jacket for sale on Ebay.
I must admit, it's a new one on me.
Also someone flogging a Baracuta 'parker'.
Maybe Nosey.
The seller meant 'natural' (and said so). But it made me smile. More so than a lot of the rubbish I was looking at, including a depressing amount of Brooks Brothers.
A serious question (possibly best answered by an American poster): When did Brooks Brothers actually give up the ghost?
No idea. Maybe the mistake was ours; Brooks Brothers is a clothing company - not a bastion of anything. Their obligation is to sell whatever sells. Same as Abercrombie and Fitch. The old A & F was a dusty, wonderful place where you could always find pith helmets and safari gear. When I worked in film design, it was the place to go to get those tan vests that photographers and explorers were always seen wearing in movies. They had animal trophy heads as decor—- and they seemed on the verge of going out of business.
Robert Frost said this: “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Last edited by Jdemy (2021-12-27 08:17:44)
Jdemy, you're right, of course: certain of us probably made an 'icon' out of that particular clothing company. I'm sure it didn't ask, much less beg us, to do so.
Interesting point about Abercrombie and Fitch (besides reminding me of movies with people like Frank Buck, not to mention Cedric Hardwicke and Stewart Granger), my father once gave me a pair of their chinos which were very good indeed. There was also an old jacket of theirs on Ebay a few weeks ago which was pure Ivy Boom Years.
Frost - never a radical in his youth lest he become a reactionary in old age. Wallace Stevens might be my favourite American poet but Cummings and Frost run him close.
Wallace Stevens. Amazing. Difficult and ornate. Frost is another favorite.
I always thought the colour "nude" is a colour term used for ladies stockings.
I think, i´ll ask Mrs. WIL to give me some real life presentation tonight. ;-)