It's Official: Tweed is In (again)

[Jock Scot]

Well there I go, thinking I was ahead of the game on the fashion front. With my tweed shooting suits, tweed jackets, tweed caps(not with the kilt of course!). Oh well. Now, I wonder if oilskins will return to fashion?I should be OK, still, there! Hummm, perhaps it is time for me to reinvent the wheel?

[Jock Scot]

"Since 1999, the Chap has been championing the rights of that increasingly marginalised and discredited species of Englishman - the gentleman. The Chap believes that a society without courteous behaviour and proper headwear is a society on the brink of moral and sartorial collapse, and it seeks to reinstate such outmoded but indispensable gestures as hat doffing, giving up one's seat to a lady and regularly using a trouser press... "

Brilliant, but can one use a trouser press on a kilt?

I say... there are some awfully nice brogues in the chap shop what?

No no, you have it all wrong! One does not use a trouser press! Whatever next? Let's get this right. One's man uses the trouserpress to press a chap's trousers.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

How have I missed that?

thanks, Mac!

Just my humble attempt to "spread the word"...

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

No no, you have it all wrong! One does not use a trouser press! Whatever next? Let's get this right. One's man uses the trouserpress to press a chap's trousers.

Well pointed out, and spoken like a true chap. Still, though, I would contend that at least a rudimentary knowledge of the workings of the Corby (to say nothing of knowing its location) is no bad thing.

[piperdbh]

I just wish someone would tell my wife that I am not looking like "an old guy" now!

Tell mine the same thing. She says my new tweed vest is "...what old men wear." I replied, "Yes, exactly!"

Thanks for the link, MoR.

[starbkjrus]

No no, you have it all wrong! One does not use a trouser press! Whatever next? Let's get this right. One's man uses the trouserpress to press a chap's trousers.

Ahh you are correct. But ONLY after one's toothbrush is foaming properly. ith:

[Nick the DSM]

tintypes??

[pdcorlis]

Ah yes - the poor man's daguerreotype...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintype

[string]

Tweed, Victorian fashion and steampunk all in style *string does a little happy dance*

[Kiltman]

Ok, I'm standing at the pisser and the gentleman next to me compliments me on my tweed coat, not the kilt! Like several others I've been wearing it for so long I didn't know it was out and the in, out and then . . .