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#926 2022-06-05 04:59:57
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Aquascutum raincoat for Derby Day. Rain eased off so coat mainly carried in rucksack. Got a local authority bus up to the course.
Bought cheap ‘Panama’ hat. £10 on The Hill. Who pays thousands for the genuine article? The Man from Del Monte? Otherwise clothes similar to Oaks - long sleeve Lands End blue stripe button down instead of Madras.
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#927 2022-06-06 03:10:30
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Chilly and damp so I put on my beloved old unlined Brooks Brothers fly-fronted raincoat (still with the name of one W.Scott stitched into it) over a Viyella tattersall shirt (with far too stiff a collar - yet I like the pattern) and a flecked Paul Stuart sweater with a shawl collar. I've seen another like it in navy and am tempted.
#928 2022-06-09 03:27:15
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Out for a walk in this town where time stood still around the time John Wesley was first having dead cats hurled at him by the local toughs.
I was wearing a pink cashmere v-neck. No-one even tittered behind their hand. The young women are too busy taking 'selfies' or staring into screens to notice.
#929 2022-06-10 02:21:55
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Trying to force the sun to appear today:
Red (pink..) Jakes Chambray BD
Off-white Uniqlo smart-chinos
Alden LHS No 8 Shell (no socks)
My mother took one look at me and said "you look awfully preppy".
#930 2022-06-14 12:24:29
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I went out very 'Ivied' up in a Madras jacket, pink linen shirt, Levis and Astorflex desert boots. I may have attracted the odd glance. Nothing more.
#931 2022-06-14 15:03:01
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^ Nice.
Prepped to the max today. Lands End seersucker short sleeve. Navy chino shorts. White Sperry CVO’s. Navy ball cap. And for the first ten minutes or so, a yellow Tommy (no logo) cable cotton crew.
Tomorrow will be Lands End (again) madras short sleeve. Ecru chino shorts. Beige Linen Failsworth newsboy. Footwear undecided. Leaning towards wine Weejuns but heat may dictate blue Sperrys.
#932 2022-06-15 00:08:29
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Scottish-made wool cap, colourful Paul Stuart shirt, stone (old) Alan Paine slipover, light brown Farah cords (USA-made), yellow Argyle socks, Dexter loafers.
A bit of a (fancied) Dave Frishberg look.
#933 2022-06-15 02:30:53
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Now changed into old Johnny Simons Madras shirt, navy PRL chinos and old, English-made espadrilles.
Reading a book on Harlem, 1900-1950. A not inconsiderable eye-opener.
#934 2022-06-16 02:13:52
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Blue Brooks OCBD
Navy English-made Brooks slipover
USA-made Farah cords
'Unremarkable' socks (Falke)
Trickers lace-ups
Not cool. Not cool at all. But I looked nice.
#935 2022-06-16 02:26:32
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Now changed into Hunt Club Madras and cotton chinos.
Roof being repaired.
No music until work ceases.
#936 2022-06-16 03:14:47
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BD Baggies red/blue/white check
Olive chinos
Khaki RL cotton 3/2
Red socks
Wine Weejuns. Modern. Plastic. Cracking. Not impressed at all.
#937 2022-06-16 04:51:31
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£4000 on the roof.
Out go the Alden shell, in comes the crowdfunding.
#938 2022-06-17 05:53:44
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I left the house this morning a reasonably happy individual, dressed in a simple pink Duck Head button-down and freshly-laundered chinos; contemplating my pre-breakfast surprise at Woof's departure but not looking forward to the roofers arriving.
Bill has now risen to £10.000.
Thank God I've just bought one of those Imperial jackets for five quid.
Even if it is darted.
#939 2022-06-17 05:54:51
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Who's Bill? I hear you ask.
Not the one with the khakis.
#940 2022-06-19 02:42:48
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Tommy Hilfiger jacket. USA-made in summerweight wool. Rather stylish. Extraordinarily inexpensive.
Long-sleeve navy Peter Geeson polo shirt
501s
Royal blue John Smedley socks
Nicholas Deakin chocolate brown ankle boots
#941 2022-06-22 01:03:33
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Warm now, hot later, so: Hunt Club Madras, L.L.Bean denim, well-worn Sebago loafers. Sockless.
Nothing more 'baroque' is needed.
#942 2022-06-30 05:54:04
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Much posting because the roofers are hard at it. I'll soon be around £12.000 the poorer. Bang goes a small number of items I'd been eyeing.
Today, a simple cable-knit cotton sweater and faded Levis, together with a thrifted Viyella shirt.
'Cedric-style' Smedley socks, though, in royal blue.
#943 2022-07-01 03:15:39
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After torrential rain last night and a rumble of thunder this morning, I anticipated yet more rain so went out with a raincoat folded over my left arm just like an 'Absolute Beginners'-style Mod (ha!). I also did the Chris_H autumn look of Madras BD under Shetland crew neck (the flash and hint of colour). I was warm but not uncomfortably so. 501s, socks from Murray's Toggery (now ten years old and still going strong) and Astorflex desert boots completed the ensemble.
A lady of a certain age smiled at me but failed to offer no-strings intercourse behind the nearest bush, drat her.
#944 2022-07-01 04:52:04
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‘A lady of a certain age smiled at me but failed to offer no-strings intercourse behind the nearest bush, drat her.’
So you were going dogging then?
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#945 2022-07-01 04:59:00
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Sadly, no, only to purchase a padded envelope from the post office.
My life is full of excitement.
#946 2022-07-04 03:25:08
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Well: Haggar 'Imperial' two-button grey herringbone (a darted beast but cheaper than a pie and pint in Spoons), pink Makers button-down, blue (not navy, more RAF/sky/dunno) 'Clansman' Shetland crew-neck, L.L.Bean jeans with that dinky little 'Mod' turn-up, rust-coloured Falke socks, Astorflex desert boots.
Very overcast.
#947 2022-07-05 04:39:33
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Sunshine followed by grey skies: so typical of England. So: Hunt Club l/s Madras with chunky McLochland cardigan (dig those crazy football buttons, man), 501s and sand coloured Astorflex. (The roofer: 'Are those loafers?').
#948 2022-07-06 06:35:23
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Today: Sabre shawl cardigan, another Hunt Club Madras, Bean dark denim, Nicky Deakins.
Next week is supposed to be HOT.
#949 2022-07-08 02:18:13
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Once more, dear friends, the Corbin Madras/'sherbert' pink shirt combo. It would once, in this funny little town, have led to whispering and giggling. But now the local supermarket has a rainbow flag and welcome to all our LBGT with knobs on friends outside (hoping for a lipstick lesbian sometime around the quarter moon, buying her Prosecco): so nothing. I'd like to be able to pout, admonish with a wagging forefinger, then flounce (like Woofboxer). But nothing.
#950 2022-07-09 12:14:47
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Corbin Madras jacket
Plain white Makers button-down (not Oxford)
Levis
No socks, unremarkable or otherwise
Sebago loafers