Made in thailand? Surprise, surprise

^ God, I remember when we used to talk about clothes here too!

It's nice to revisit those days - Thank you. 

It was a tragedy that we lost posters like The Weejun.  Yet here we were, back in 2010, when 'Talk Ivy' still had a certain amount of life left in it, and he couldn't get any kind of conversation going.

A search of ‘Four Climes’ on ebay.com brought up ten items. The one that interested me most was the

FOUR CLIMES Baracuta Shawl Collar Wool Blend Lined Coat Made In England 40

A dead ringer for one of my seminal Ivy clothing pieces … the Invertere Buffer coat, so close in fact that it must have been ‘inspired by the Invertere. As it is my size I would probably have bought it out of interest in order to *curate* it, had it not been for the horrendous mark on the back on which the seller advises “Grease stain on back that should come out with dry clean but otherwise in good condition?? … which probably means that he’s had a go at it himself with every cleaning product he can lay his hands on but nothing will shift it.