suit button question

[StanleyVanBuren]

Actually, double-breasted jackets make one look broader. For a slimming look, try a navy pinstriped three-piece cut with an English (preferably Anderson & Sheppard-style) silhouette

Second that, and I'd add that you should go with 2 buttons or less.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

British politicians wearing DB jackets? Off hand, I can only think of Ian Paisley, Ken Clark and Peter Tapsell . . .

Take a gander at Gordon Brown's first PMQs and you'll see a veritable sea of 3 button SB notch lapel grey suits. intensely boring.

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[Tomasso]

Take a gander at Gordon Brown's first PMQ

fftopic: Is GB prone to stuttering and stammering or was it just opening night jitters?

 

[Edward]

British politicians wearing DB jackets? Off hand, I can only think of Ian Paisley, Ken Clark and Peter Tapsell . . .

Take a gander at Gordon Brown's first PMQs and you'll see a veritable sea of 3 button SB notch lapel grey suits. intensely boring.

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Oopsy, yeah... I looked this week, seems times have changed since I last looked. Eeee.... now i think about it, I had in mind Hague era (oops, that is a while back) when they switched his jacket style to make him look bigger / more substantial, less like the tory school-boy stereotype he got landed with (never did escape that '77 speech, did he?).

Tomasso, it's the first time Gordo has done somethingl ike that, if memory serves - I don't think he ever did it as a minister? I'm not sure whether it's his forte or not, he's always seemed capable enough in public before. Would it be cynical of me to suggest it was in some way played up in order to distance him from slick and spun Tony? PM'sQT is important in terms of political point scoring, so he'll need to perform better in future, though in terms of the reality of government it's more a bit of pantomime for the media than anything serious IMO.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I was surprised at the lack of taunting generated by the stuttering. Given that the Tories are typically howling and baying in the most vulgar fashion whenever a woman stands up to speak, i find it odd that they didn't take advantage of this flaw.

It sounded like a real stutter to me. And it would seem that he has stuttered for a while, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to control it within two words as he did. Most stutterers i know have a tried and tested method of breaking the stutter (stamp foot on floor, slap thigh, cough, whatever).

The worst story i've heard was a chap who was being taught in a Dublin parochial school. Every morning they would have a catechism session, all the boys lined up around the wall. The questions started at the boy by the door and proceeded around the room, of course getting more complex/difficult as they go on. If you got it wrong you got a ruler across the knuckles and remained standing. Get it right, you get to sit down. This guy stuttered every time he went to answer (seen by The Brothers as willful blasphemy; beating a child, apparently, is just fine) and so never got to sit down. He is crippled to this day in his left hand.

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[Tomasso]

The worst story i've heard was a chap who was being taught in a Dublin parochial school............. He is crippled to this day in his left hand.

Sad story, but it could have been much worse.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Whoops, GBs stuttering is starting to induce mirth from the opposition benches. he stuttered again in his Draft Queen's Speech when he was replying to the Tory response. Quite a bit of taunting.

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