Ah, if all protestors looked like this!

[gimmesomeshelte]

All-

I love the picture of these protestors.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/21/nsuit21.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/03/21/ixnewstop.html

Paul-

 

[Lauren]

That makes me sad. That is a protest I acutally would participate in.

 

[MK]

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Good for them. I am glad they are trying to save the tradition.

 

[mysterygal]

they're for sure the best looking protestors I have ever seen before

 

[Hemingway Jones]

What a great story and an excellent way to protest.

Gentrification is a problem in most big cities of the world, without an easy answer.

It's sad when inferior products move in, like the GAP in Harvard Square, or, in this case, Prada on Saville Row. The big designers have beautiful fabrics and terrible tailoring. Most are fit for the very thin with small proportions.

There is a certain irony that the luxory brands of the world are, in most case, inferior products. A LVT bag is just waxed canvas; that's all it is. You would be better off with an LL Bean tote bag; but there is no cache' there.

I would love to have a custom tailored suit from Saville Row. Someday... If it's still there.

 

[Feraud]

What an interesting story.
The use of words like Abercrombie & Fitch and Saville Row in the same sentence do not fit!

A LVT bag is just waxed canvas; that's all it is. You would be better off with an LL Bean tote bag; but there is no cache' there.

Agree! I feel bad for the ladies who pay 300-400 dollars for a Kate Spade bag made of nylon! God Bless Capitalism. I wish I had the "you know what" to rip people off like that with a straight face. I'd be a billionaire.

 

[Sefton]

"As the protesters lined the street clutching shears, swatches and tape measures, the whiff of Brylcreem and quality shoe leather was unmistakable".

At protests in San Francisco you will often get a whiff of something unmistakable...sadly it's not likely to be Brylcreem...

I too would love to have a suit made by one of the famous tailors of Saville Row. I wish them luck (and luck to me so that I can someday make enough money to buy that suit!).

 

[Nick Charles]

Good for them, I really love "Englishmen", keep tradition alive.:eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[Bargepole]

Ahem...

Good for them, I really love the the Britts, keep tradition alive.:eusa_clap :eusa_clap

Er... speaking from across the water, where your Queen comes from (let's forget that Declaration of Independence malarkey, what, what, eh?) may I possibly take a moment of your valuable time, merely to observe that the insult is spelt "Brits".

For insult it is. No "Brit" would dress in a suit (except to appear in court as the defendant), let alone something bespoke from the Row. A "Brit" wears a cheap baseball cap, usually sideways, on top of a knobbly shaved skull atop feral, rat-like "features", and teamed with a grubby tee-shirt and a pair of jeans hanging low enough to expose an inch or two of buttock-cleft, finished off with a pair of trainers big enough to house a family of the homeless and so intricate that he can barely walk. He can also barely walk because he is drunk on cheap lager. Speak to him and he will say, with that idiosyncratic charm for which the "Brit" is famous, something like:

YeeoeoooaarrrgghhpharkOFFpharkOFFyeeeoooeoaaggghh

-then take a swing at you with his spindly fist (tattooed with LOVE and HATE on the knuckles"), miss, smack into a lamp-post, smash his knuckles, fall into the street, cut his head open and NOT EVEN NOTICE.

That's a "Brit". Those of us who occasionally scrape together enough moolah to take a trip to the Row prefer to think of ourselves as "Englishmen". (Or Scotsmen or Americans or Spaniards or even Martians; the Row is democratic; all it asks is your money; all of it.)

But never "Brits".

Good show. Well done. Carry on.

 

["Doc" Devereux]

Those of us who occasionally scrape together enough moolah to take a trip to the Row prefer to think of ourselves as "Englishmen". (Or Scotsmen or Americans or Spaniards or even Martians; the Row is democratic; all it asks is your money; all of it.)

But never "Brits".

Good show. Well done. Carry on.

You missed out 'Cornishmen', old sport.

Chin chin! :cheers1:

 

[Nick Charles]

Those of us who occasionally scrape together enough moolah to take a trip to the Row prefer to think of ourselves as "Englishmen". (Or Scotsmen or Americans or Spaniards or even Martians; the Row is democratic; all it asks is your money; all of it.)

But never "Brits".



Forgive my ignorance , My Lord, point taken and filed in the memory banks. Thanks for the edification and not calling me a wanker! :eusa_doh:

 

[Naama]

Now that's really classy!

Naama

 

[silhouette53]

Spot on Sir !

My Dear Mr Bargepole

Once again, I feel it my duty as a fellow ENGLISHMAN to congratulate you :eusa_clap on the total accuracy with which you have described that loathsome creature the 'Brit' ( Rattus Benefiticus ) You omitted to mention the other stock utterance used by the creature when not under the influence of cheap lager ( sober ) which is "Gorra spare fag mate ?" My stock answer, when I am feeling benevolent enough to make any reply at all is "Do I look like I'd be stupid enough to smoke cigarettes?" The mental effort required on the part of Rattus Benefiticus to absorb and analyse this multi-syllable shock will usually result in him running around in decreasing circles making gibbering noises and finally collapsing in a quivering heap thereby posing no further inconvenience to me.lol

 

["Doc" Devereux]

It's a little off topic, but...

I must say that I personally have no objection to being called a 'Brit', any more than several American friends of mine don't object when I call them 'Yanks' nor my Scottish friends when I call them 'Jocks'.

 

[Bargepole]

Thanks for the edification and not calling me a wanker

No Englishman (or indeed Cornishman) would ever let such a word pass his lips. We leave that sort of thing to Brits...

 

[Bargepole]

Still off-topic, I fear.

"Gorra spare fag mate ?"

The one I like is "Got any spare change?" The only logical reply is "I really can't tell; we shall have to see how the day goes."

 

[Bargepole]

And STILL off-topic.

[QUOTE="Doc" Devereux]I must say that I personally have no objection to being called a 'Brit', any more than several American friends of mine don't object when I call them 'Yanks' nor my Scottish friends when I call them 'Jocks'.[/QUOTE]

Hmm... I really must get the Ironics style fixed on this computer; it doesn't appear to be showing up onscreen