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#27 2009-04-30 09:27:23
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Re: The style of Mr. Ken Lovegrove
Strachan and Lally had a rather wonderfully childish schoolboy sense of humour. Ian was a big fan of Anthony Perkins and was always banging on about his Ivy suit in Psycho. When I said I hadn't seen it since my 'conversion' he lent his copy to me. When I got home to my bedsit on the Hill (the house I was in recently sold for £2M, how London has changed) I duly put the film on and sat back expected to by dazzled by Hitchcock's amazing direction, Hermann's wonderful score and Perkins' perfect corduroy Ivy suit. However Ian had substituted Psycho for some dodgy old hard core porn film. He later said he wanted me to have got a load of my mod mates together to watch the film only for me to be embarrased when the grunting started. They liked provincials in The Ivy Shop - saw us as sweet but a bit innocent and dim. If I've told you that story before I apologise, it's possible.
There had been a Saturday boy just before me but as I recall it he had been sacked because he was rather on the extreme right politically. He didn't like the (incredibly few) non-caucasian customers. He must have been bad for Ian to have taken issue with this.
Did I serve Mrs Street? How lovely. What year would this have been? Did she remark on my customer care and product knowledge? I was best at polishing the shoes. I was always nervous when there was a woman in the shop because Jeffrey Garet would be letching in the most blatant manner possible. As was Lally in The Ivy Shop. I would have been too of course but I'm a different generation and you do it on the sly with a degree of subtlety - you don't just stare at the tits if you were born post-1960.
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#28 2009-04-30 09:28:27
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Re: The style of Mr. Ken Lovegrove
It does but you may have to change browsers. When I use Safari, natas. When I use Camino, I'm fine. So if you're using Explorer, try Firefox.
Some British guy should really step up and give up J.G. some help on this front. The site has so much potential but struggles with just loading up. It's a shame.
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#29 2009-04-30 09:35:32
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Re: The style of Mr. Ken Lovegrove
"I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar-that's wonderful."
— Raymond Chandler
#30 2009-04-30 09:39:04
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Re: The style of Mr. Ken Lovegrove
ahhh yes, thanks D&F. 
#32 2009-04-30 11:13:00
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Re: The style of Mr. Ken Lovegrove
Funny chap that student must have been. My next door neighbour borders on camp without being annoying, and I don't mind lending him my copy of 'Guys and Dolls'. The U2/Fleetwood Mac interest seems pretty damning into the bargain.
#33 2009-04-30 11:21:23
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Re: The style of Mr. Ken Lovegrove
Incidentally, what was Pete Townsend after in the Ivy Shop when Ian Strachan went chilly on him because he wasn't Coltrane?
#34 2009-04-30 11:33:50
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#35 2009-04-30 11:41:33
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Re: The style of Mr. Ken Lovegrove
Well, the guy's a part of rock history. Didn't Ian wear the loafers?
#39 2009-04-30 12:19:17
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Re: The style of Mr. Ken Lovegrove
Enlighten us, do, on kosher loafers and knitwear as approved of by Mr. S.
#40 2009-04-30 12:29:36
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Re: The style of Mr. Ken Lovegrove
Let me bookmark this one for tomorrow - Dinner is calling.
#42 2009-05-01 01:56:06
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Re: The style of Mr. Ken Lovegrove
Do tell. Do.
There's a 'Jeffrey Scott' shirt for sale on EbayUK. I was wondering. You'd know.
#43 2009-05-01 03:08:02
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Got a link?
I've a punter to please & then I'll head off down memory lane again... 
#45 2009-05-01 03:14:52
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I'm thinking possibly not the John 'Geoffrey Scott'.
#46 2009-05-01 04:39:54
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To lazy, slack & slobby to check, but the JS GS label reads: "Geof Scott, Traditional, Made in the USA", in an oval.
- Chris_H will know, I sent him one once.
#47 2009-05-01 04:43:44
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Yeah, this is def. 'Jeffrey Scott', Jim, and they have a website. I think maybe I'm laying a false trail. John R remembers you.
#50 2009-05-01 04:51:32
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Re: The style of Mr. Ken Lovegrove
'Dockers' are shite. I unwisely bought a pair when they were dirt-cheap in a local shop (now gone) because I was going on holiday and needed something I didn't mind getting messed up. Bad cutting around the crotch. Funny things, chinos. Best are my old Oxfam for a fiver sanforized and mercerized aviation pair (still awkward round the dick, but such a nice taper to them), which I wear at least once a week. Surely Ian disapproved of the candy stripe?