Reading Tim's post, I can't help but get the image of Steve Martin in The Man With Two Brains. ''mmmmm......that breeze feels good!''
hahaha, yes, sounds about right - weather here has been very changeable lately, yesterday it was pea-coat weather and today it’s shorts and t-shirt. who knows what I’d wear under different CIRCUMstances! ha!
As children we used to sing: My one skin lies over my two skin...
My two skin lies over my three...
You can guess - or invent - the rest.
Verging on hot here. I take a walk. Post a letter, call in for croissants, perv on a female or three.
I wear simply a Hunt Club Madras long-sleeve, 501s, mustard-colour Viyella socks and the Nicky Deakins.
In our two street, one horse town, a young girl sits on a blanket begging, pitifully.
During the week: olive green O’Connell’s harrington type jacket, red old RL polo, wheat Levis 615 jeans, Asics trainers, red Ebbett’s Field ball cap, AO sunglasses.
Strolled around Pangbourne which used to be a bustling little town on the Thames, Now very affluent and boasts, a Coop, artisan butcher, an opticians, a healthfood shop, 2 charity shops (checked with a negative result), a Bentley/Lamborghini dealership, numerous estate agents and a Big Issue seller.
Took solace in a pint of Windsor and Eton Guardsman, sitting outside a pub on the river, was glad of the jacket.
Strolled around Pangbourne which used to be a bustling little town on the Thames, Now very affluent and boasts, a Coop, artisan butcher, an opticians, a healthfood shop, 2 charity shops (checked with a negative result), a Bentley/Lamborghini dealership, numerous estate agents and a Big Issue seller.
Woof, when the A34 is rammed due to an accident, my alternate route home passes through Streatley & Pangbourne, absolutely beautiful. Would love to live around there but the houses are way above my pay scale.
This a.m. - a simple combination of a white Brooks shirt, pink cashmere v-neck and 501s with Nicholas Deakin boots.
Today, once again, simple. Taking my five year old grandson to see a T.Rex skeleton on loan from the USA.
Simple and, in fact, utilitarian: USA-made L.L.Bean check flannel shirt and 501s. Hardly Bruce Boyer, let alone Cary Grant, but I anticipate sticky fingers at some point during the day.
Tomorrow, after returning grandson, we are having a typical Ukrainian lunch, prepared by my daughter's young house-guest.
She is said to be interested in 'vintage' clothing, so I'm offering her a couple of USA-made tennis shirts.
'Hunt Club' long-sleeve Madras shirt
USA-made 501s
Yellow Argyle socks
Dexter b.r. loafers
Brrr.. an American made cable-knit chunky cardigan with football buttons on top.
I changed my mind at the last minute yesterday, exchanging the 'Hunt Club' Madras for a pale yellow Brooks button-down and the chunky cardigan for the Corbin Madras jacket I bought some months ago.
Visited the Co-Op in Tuxford for rum, wine and chocolates as Sunday lunchtime gifts.
Nary an eyelid was batted.
Must be well acquainted with Richard and Bruce.
Having read a snippet by Woof re the polo coat, I have taken to wearing a toff-ish coat over my L.L.Bean/Woolrich flannel shirts and Russell sweats: mostly Grenfell or Invertere.
Cloudy but warm when the sun shines (not very often up here). I dressed plain as a pikestaff. USA-made Brooks blue OCBD, high rise, plain-front, cuffed L.L.Bean chinos (remind me a little of Sta-Prest though not as 'structured'), 'unremarkable socks' (charcoal, possibly Pantherella), Florsheim Imperial PTBS.
Bought another biography of Charlie Parker and one on Leonard Bernstein and a Bud Powell CD before repairing to an eaterie for pastrami with Emmental, gherkin and mustard triple-decker sandwiches.
I was fully intending to wear the Stanley Blacker tweed jacket that's been hanging in my wardrobe since the winter. Putting it on I decided I simply did not like the way it fits, there being too boxy a shape in the shoulders.
One for a local cancer charity shop, today in receipt of Pendleton, Arrow, Gant, Smedley, Brooks Brothers, Woolrich and some black wingtips.
The Lord alone knows who they'll sell them to up here.
I'm in fishing mode these days. My cousin and his wife are in town from the West Coast. He asked if I wear anything that isn't khaki-colored. I said "Sometimes I get daring and mix in a little olive drab."
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Almost summer in England so, needless to say, I'm back in winter clothing: thick Woolrich flannel shirt, old school Russell Athletic sweatshirt, L.L.Bean cords, socks from George Turner.
Nearly 100 degrees here.
Arrow Cum Laude Blue OCBD
Lands End Super T
White Levi 501's
Wigwam
Vans Authentics
Ouch! Too hot for me - but it's a pleasant evening here, with a gentle breeze.
Arrow Cum Laude I like very much.
It's a nice lightweight blend, doesn't add much weight and keeps the sun off.
Still in winter clothing. A little sunshine, a strong breeze and more rain forecast. I went for my walk in an L.L.Bean flannel shirt, my go-to USA-made RA sweat and navy PRL chinos - with red socks from Falke and the Deakins.
I've just bought a pink Saks Fifth Avenue linen shirt. Heaven knows when I'll be wearing it.
McLochlan chunky, USA-made, cable-knit cardigan (football buttons)
L.L.Bean, USA-made flannel check shirt
USA-made 501s
Rust-coloured Falke socks
Astorflex desert boots
I went so far as to unbutton my cardigan.
Trooping of the Colour on TV, then off to just North of Heathrow to watch the Jubilee flypast come over. Loafing in the garden this afternoon with Chet Baker.
Navy Lacoste polo, Madras pattern Brooks linen shorts, Royal blue Asics Gel Lytes, Ebbets Fiield ballcap with polar bear logo, Union Jack pin badge.
Copies (accurate to the last detail) of Woof's Jubilee underpants will be available to the paying public from Monday onwards. The long expected/awaited collaboration with Mr. Paul Weller will now not take place, Mr. Kevin Rowland having outbid Mr. Weller for this doubtless lucrative franchise.
Mr. J.Simons was unavailable for comment.
Typical of Derbyshire, June 4th could be October or February. I'm wearing a Viyella shirt with too stiff a (modest spread) collar with my old navy Brooks cashmere v-neck.
I had to put my beaten-up old Sebago jacket yesterday to walk in. The wind was blowing hard.
I finally got a minute to myself in the afternoon and listened to 'Everybody Digs Bill Evans' followed by 'Monk's Music'. Who's that shouting 'Col-trane... Col-trane...?' Would it have been Coleman Hawkins?