[ 20.06.2007, 13:45: Message edited by: vikram ]
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
Paul Smith near Nottinghill station - the guy who works in the off the rack suit section and the bespoke section is fantastic - can't think of his name.
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
here's the number and post code
0207 7273553 - W11 2EP
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
thanks benny
how are you this evening?
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
good thank you - just got back from a yoga class, so feeling very relaxedzzzzzzzzzzzz
Posted by sabian (Member # 6) on :
quote:Originally posted by Benny the Ball: Paul Smith near Nottinghill station - the guy who works in the off the rack suit section and the bespoke section is fantastic - can't think of his name.
*useless trivia* This is down the road from me... I may stake it out to ambush Vikram *useless trivia*
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
you should visit it, Sabian - it's a beautiful place.
Edit: magic e becomes garden variety a
[ 21.06.2007, 07:16: Message edited by: Benny the Ball ]
Posted by sabian (Member # 6) on :
Oh, I have been... But, me being me... The only things that fit were the shoes and the wallets.
Not being a big enough prat to wear the shoes, I bought a wallet.
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
paul smith. nottingham. you can't help yourself can you benny?
Posted by Doctor Agamemnon When (Member # 189) on :
*more useless trivia*
I had four bespoke suits made in China, which cost me about £20 each.
Air fare to Beijing: £450 Internal flights to & from Harbin, where I stayed: £66 Hotel for a week (the time it took to make them): £70 Food & beer for a week: £98 (and that's good food & good beer!) Taxis to & from airport: £16 Suits, inc. Material & labour: £80 Total: £780
Cost per suit: £195.00
I know what I'm doing when I next need a suit or four!!!
Posted by SilverGinger5 (Member # 49) on :
Hey Dr When, One of your b3ta things made it to the front page of digg earlier on!
Posted by Doctor Agamemnon When (Member # 189) on :
Good one. They mentioned b3ta on Radio 4 at the weekend, and its sister site, which I'd never heard of before (behind the times as usual), sickipedia.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:Originally posted by Doctor Agamemnon When: Cost per suit: £195.00
I was amazed that someone would be willing to spend 350 quid on a suit. Even 195 seems extravagant to me. Never mind four.
But seriously. 350 quid. On a suit. For work, presumably. What nutter spends that sort of money?
Oddly I can imagine someone (i.e. a shexhy woman) spending 300 quid on a top-notch pair of shoes, and thinking, well, yeah, fair enough, special pair of classy shoes, lovely, mmm.
But not on a suit.
Does anyone agree.
No. Right.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: Oddly I can imagine someone (i.e. a shexhy woman) spending 300 quid on a top-notch pair of shoes
You can get a much cheaper pair than that in Hull. Slightly water damaged, but still.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: Does anyone agree.
Yes. I doubt all my clothes and shoes together cost 350 quid. Whatever a quid is.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: Whatever a quid is.
About 2 dollars. Whatever a dollar is.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
About 50 pence. Whatever a pence is.
Posted by Doctor Agamemnon When (Member # 189) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: What nutter spends that sort of money?
I would if I could afford it. Anyone who's aware of my taste in clothes will not find this suprising.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by dang65: About 2 dollars.
$700 on clothes? Who spends that kind of money on clothing? Unless you can eat it too.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
I think £350 quid is equivalent to about $750, ralph. I might have to edit that tomorrow, to $800, and the day after to $850, though.
My most expensive suit was reduced from £350, which places it as the most expensive item of clothing I've ever bought. I feel like a fucking idiot wearing it though. A real faker.
[ 25.06.2007, 11:27: Message edited by: Nathan Bleak ]
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
My most expensive suit was 110 pounds from Marks & Spencer. It's alright I suppose.
My cheapest is a snazzy one I bought from TX Maxx on special for 40 quid, but in the wrong size (last one there), so I took it to a crummy bespoke tailor above a kebab shop to fix, which cost me 30 quid.
I buy most of my posh snazzy work shirts (Austin Reed, mainly) from charity shops for 3 quid.
I'm sounding really sexy, I bet.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I have a £200 pair of shoes. I bought them while drunk and didn't remember until they arrived. Well...I still didn't remember buying them but their arrival suggested that I had done.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
my most expenive suit was about £250 i think. the trousers dont fit any more though so i had to spend another £90 or so on trousers that match. I did, however, once spend £300 on a coat. It was a gorgeous coat, real wool. It got stolen by a pikey in Swindon.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
probably far too big for him as well, i bet
Posted by sabian (Member # 6) on :
The most I've ever spent is £200 on that wallet.
I felt like a real mug cuz I had a 'designer' wallet, but nothing to put into it!
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
Did the wallet have some sort of chain attached?
Or hasn't that phenomenon yet made it across the pond?
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
A friend, from the US of A, was always swinging his damned wallet around on one of those things, way back in the summer of 1997 - he's a minister now. I wonder if he has a small bible attached by a chain?
Posted by sabian (Member # 6) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: Did the wallet have some sort of chain attached?
I so did that in highschool. Stopped though when the little hook thing snagged on my car's upholstery and ripped a football sized hole in the seat. Fucking biker wallets!
quote:Originally posted by ralph: Or hasn't that phenomenon yet made it across the pond?
I've seen some freak emo/goth/mod kids wearing them... Not mainstream though... Usually the kind of people that will eventually hang themselves with it when someone smiles at them.
Posted by sabian (Member # 6) on :
quote:Originally posted by Benny the Ball: I wonder if he has a small bible attached by a chain?
God can't be chained Benny... Just His followers!
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by sabian:
quote:Originally posted by ralph: Did the wallet have some sort of chain attached?
I so did that in highschool.
I knew it. I don't know how, but I knew it.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
quote:Originally posted by dang65: Whatever a dollar is.
I think it was the currency of the former USA, before they switched to gold, animal skins and bullets
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
Oh vikram. Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
Wolverines!
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
My boss wears a suit, and I've just slit her throat and left her for dead in the toilets.
If you're about a size twelve...and a girl, I'll strip those duds from her corpse and stick it in the post.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Is it a good suit? Any blood? Nice shoes?
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
What's a UK size 12 translate to in American measurements? Mrs. ralph is always on the lookout for new suits.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
It's about an 8 in American.
Joan, if it's Whistles, I'll have it.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
Mrs. ralph is a ten. Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
There's a layer of human tissue stuck to most of it. I reckon it might fit a 10.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Sorry, just day dreaming. As you were.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: Did the wallet have some sort of chain attached? Or hasn't that phenomenon yet made it across the pond?
I had my chain confiscated by customs because I could have used it as a weapon on the plane (had I wished to hijack the plane I guess), however they did let me take on 2 large glass jars full of pickled eggs (Isn't broken glass and an acid like way more deadly than a small chain ?) and they didn't stop the woman behind me who was the Queen of all the Chaves and was wearing at the very least THREE 9 carat gold belcher chains thicker and longer than the one attached to my wallet.
Calling the security guard a 'pointless fucking jobsworth' for confiscating my chain and letting the chav necklace through almost got me nicked, I wonder if it would have been under the prevention of terrorism act ?
Reminded me a bit of Life of Brian to be honest..
"We found a spoon sah !"
[ 26.06.2007, 12:22: Message edited by: Darryn.R ]
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
lol. Darryn had a wallet with a chain.
Oh Darryn. Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: lol. Darryn had a wallet with a chain.
Oh Darryn.
It was in LONDON dude, I didn't want ,u wallet nicked by a crackhead looking to score3 some LCD or heron or something..
[ 26.06.2007, 17:38: Message edited by: Darryn.R ]
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
There's a couple of really nice suits at Debenhams at the moment - a really cool brown one that's on sale for £160. I'd get it if I needed a suit. Which I don't.
Posted by Doctor Agamemnon When (Member # 189) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: Or hasn't that phenomenon yet made it across the pond?
I wear a chained wallet when I'm going somewhere full of shifty foreigners, like Abroad, or King's Heath.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
lol. I live in a land of shifty foreigners and nobody has ever tried to nick my wallet.
[ 28.06.2007, 13:27: Message edited by: ralph ]
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
I usually travel with a stealth travel wallet, the type you wear underneath your shirt, a flesh-colored cloth thing attached by way of an elastic stretched around the torso. It's probably a manifestation of sort of subconscious desire that should I ever be mugged while traveling, I'd prefer to not only be left without cash, credit cards or any identification, but also be left without my shirt. I wonder what that says about people who wear money belts- probably that they secretly want to be mugged and left with no pants I suppose.
I remember the wallets with the chains on from the mid-80s. We called them truckers wallets. At some point I also seem to recall seeing them used by goth type people in the late 90s. Never owned one myself though.
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