Want to buy or sell something? Check the classifieds
  • The Fedora Lounge is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

Search results

  1. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    I might have a look at it. Although I have several olive green British Army WPs, I might like one that was made specially for the US Marines. It would be an honour to wear it.
  2. Ticklishchap

    girls in guy's garb

    My attitude is: why bother with an ersatz male when I can have the real thing - indeed when I am the real thing! But each to his own, as they say.
  3. Ticklishchap

    Guernsey jumper

    That looks very 1980s. It’s nice but personally I prefer to wear the more traditional submariner. But the Paul James still looks great and might well suit your purposes.
  4. Ticklishchap

    Guernsey jumper

    Hello Rolando Thanks for your interesting post. I have found that the neck on a traditional Guernsey is in fact quite tight and quite firm and stays that way over many years. As I said, I’ve been wearing Guernseys for decades and my Navy Guernsey is about 20 years old. One idea that came to...
  5. Ticklishchap

    Guernsey jumper

    In my honest opinion, the 'boat collar' neck of the traditional Guernsey is actually quite high - and I should know as I've been wearing them for decades! Maybe you would be more suited to a submariners roll neck or the roll neck version of the military Woolly Pully.
  7. Ticklishchap

    School and college sports

    One other aspect of this was that I recall being treated very leniently in terms of discipline because I played Rugger and that was considered very important to the school. It was not at all fair but I'm afraid I used it to my advantage as did others who were similarly favoured.
  8. Ticklishchap

    WWII/old-fashioned military slang for passing gas.

    I'm afraid I did. While I am much more civilised now, of course, during my fartulent days at boarding school I used to enjoy the opportunity to stink out the locker room after Rugby matches.
  9. Ticklishchap

    WWII/old-fashioned military slang for passing gas.

    That was more or less the scene when (as I mentioned in another thread recently) I told my House Master that there was no mention of farting in either the School or House rules.
  10. Ticklishchap

    Guernsey jumper

    I am wearing a Navy Woolly Pully. It won't be at all long before I start wearing Guernseys again. I love their rugged masculine quality.
  11. Ticklishchap

    WWII/old-fashioned military slang for passing gas.

    Yes, especially when both you and the master involved knew it was a charade. ...!
  13. Ticklishchap

    Guernsey jumper

    Yes, you're right. There are some photos of the Desert Rats in Guernseys on the Woolly Pully thread, sent in by a nice American chap a few years ago. I have a Guernsey in that colour. You're right about the Naval heritage of the 'standard' Navy Guernsey, taken over by Nelson from the Channel...
  14. Ticklishchap

    Guernsey jumper

    I’m looking forward to getting out the Guernseys, Chunkies etc., but for this stage in the autumn it’s military knitwear (Woolly Pullies) all day every day and that’s fine by me! (Of course Guernseys also very much qualify as military knitwear.)
  15. Ticklishchap

    WWII/old-fashioned military slang for passing gas.

    The positive aspect of it was that as an all-male environment there was a dry sense of humour accompanying the discipline and authoritarianism. My form master (in my final year) congratulated me on my farts, for example, as well as giving me a somewhat nominal telling-off.
  16. Ticklishchap

    Is British style not what it was (or maybe never was in the 1st place)?

    We had to wear ties to lessons and to chapel - which we wore with white shirts and navy tee-neck sweaters. However in the evenings we could dress more casually (it was a boys' boarding school) which usually meant thick wool sweaters and corduroy trousers. In the sixth form (16-18), we could...
  17. Ticklishchap

    WWII/old-fashioned military slang for passing gas.

    And boys' schools at that time were very much ruled by farts!
  19. Ticklishchap

    WWII/old-fashioned military slang for passing gas.

    I shall have to collect some farts in jars and then recycle them as alternative energy. Thus a pleasurable activity is converted into a public duty.
  20. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    And, as mentioned in this thread, there is Outdoor Knitwear. www.outdoorknitwear.com They have a very good and varied range - and quite frequent special offers. (No, I don't work for them but they've been my supplier for years and many other chaps on this thread have used them.)
  21. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    I see quite a few men wearing them when I go hiking in the countryside outside London. They are ideal country wear both for outdoors and country pubs, etc. Certainly when I was younger most of my make friends had one or two of them and they are coming back gradually, as are wool sweaters...
  22. Ticklishchap

    WWII/old-fashioned military slang for passing gas.

    I feel increasingly guilty about my farts and their possible contribution to climatic instability.
  23. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    I am glad Ophelia has now gone along with her ghastly 1970s taste in colour. I hated the strange skies and the humidity. Also in Navy crew neck WP now. I have the roll neck Navy but it’s not been cold enough for it yet. I look forward. And I’ll post a photo as promised. Ticklishchap.

Latest posts

Members online

... and 37 more.
Total: 4,371 (members: 87, guests: 4,284)

Forum statistics

Threads
109,264
Messages
3,077,568
Members
54,221
Latest member
magyara
Top