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#1 2022-06-28 01:55:52
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'Guaranteed To Bleed'
On Ebay now, Newly Listed (more or less), but the seller reckons its bleeding days are more or less over. Then where's the point or the pleasure?
I'll be keeping an eye on this one. Will anyone bite?
#3 2022-06-28 02:05:28
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Re: 'Guaranteed To Bleed'
Fifteen years ago posters would have been onto this. Maybe not now.
#4 2022-06-29 11:33:09
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Re: 'Guaranteed To Bleed'
I'm on to this, but don't tell anybody. Nice 'colourways' as the modern spiel goes...
#5 2022-06-29 12:38:17
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Re: 'Guaranteed To Bleed'
TRS, I've looked at it several times and rather like it but... but... but...
I'd rather like KingstonIan's take on it. He had a goodly amount to say on old bleeding Madras years ago: how the colours would begin to run almost immediately.
Another poster (can't remember who) claimed the wearer had to be patient, that it would bleed and fade in the fullness of time etc.
The two buggers I had never seemed to do much. I then outgrew them. But I did enjoy wearing them regardless.
#6 2022-06-29 16:48:20
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Re: 'Guaranteed To Bleed'
This shirt is over 50 years old. I imagine it last bled in 1967. It has nothing left to give, but will be delightfully soft to wear and has the authentic shorter collar roll that many shirts of that era had.
#7 2022-06-29 23:09:03
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Re: 'Guaranteed To Bleed'
Interesting point about that shorter roll I'd completely failed to take into consideration. I wonder if the JS Madras shirts replicate that detail.
#9 2022-07-06 07:03:29
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Re: 'Guaranteed To Bleed'
Some brave soul tried to bid with a split second to go - but the winner had cunningly placed two bids.
Some Ebayers have not yet learned to place what I think of as the 'jagged' bid but still bid in round numbers.