That Vanity article was interesting to read for the prices in 1987, just wish all those wonderful items they stocked back then were still available,( I'm sure Paul does as well), I was in Chiltern St on Wednesday, I tried on the jacket Paul Weller has on in the picture and although darted it was a very nice jacket, natural shoulder, 1/2 lined ( I think),and a good price at £395, but I'd already decided on the J.Press check jacket they had in the window, (it was on their FB page last week), just my size, perfect fit, not new but almost new, apparently they were selling it for a customer who had outgrown it, made in USA, TBH if they had said it was new I wouldn't have questioned it, PW wasn't in the shop but I saw him in the street 10 minutes later !

The Paul Weller Apparel Company.  Since 1955'.

Probably increase sales with a certain section of the clientel that frequent Chiltern St,

Considering 85% of UK newspapers are fanatically in favour of the Conservatives I don't see the problem with someone giving an alternative viewpoint. Quite the opposite. Weller has also been vocal about his musical influences which in the past will have helped introduce a lot of people to vintage soul and other music that for a while was hard to find.

His music has never done much for me, although I did like the Style Council at the time.

As re. his association with JS: it's the perfect partnership for both sides. Weller's fans are now old enough to be able to pay decent money for well-made clothing, and JS has enough experience and kudos to add some class to the collaboration. It's of no interest to me personally but then if JS relied on me to earn his living he would have gone bankrupt many years ago.

I thought as I was typing the above: cue Yuca.  That's what I thought: cue Yuca.  And so it came to pass.
I also detested Kenny fucking Everett for his pro-Tory nonsense back in 1983.

'To be fair AFS we all talk like that round 'ere. It's our 'London overspill' accent'

The only reason I am able to communicate when I'm down there is because I've watched so many episodes of The Sweeney and Minder.

Having never heard of 'Snot Rap', I was obliged to 'Google' it and wish I hadn't.  I was confronted with an image of Everett - who remains perilously close to the top of my All-Time Hate List (as Gilbert and George said, you don't stop hating someone just because they're dead) - in some kind of Village People get-up.  Woofboxer, as we know, wears something very much like it when visiting his Latvian seamstress.  Or so he tells us. 
Insufficient 'Locarno' in those leather jockey shorts, Woof!

With that leather coat Robbie you could slip seamlessly from Ivy to Goth to Emo to Gestapo.

Woof- I once had a full length leather coat that was full on Gestapo. Luckily I managed to offload it onto my brother along with a Levi's jean jacket

Comedy records in general are of no appeal to anyone into music. Snot Rap is certainly no exception.

As I recall, Roland Rat also did a comedy rap record.

I really miss the 80s. I might just buy a leather jacket, grow a mullet and listen to the Snot Rap 7" on a midi system.

Is the big perm and hairy armpits describing you or the girl ?