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Severe winters may be predicted for that made-to-measure overcoat. well in advance – which is just as An unusual abundance of acorns? well, as you’ll have at least six weeks Better add some taller socks. Larger to wait once you’ve ordered your spiders’ webs, thick hair on the warmer wardrobe. cow’s nape, woodpeckers sharing Several signs point to a harsher a tree – all these would have been than usual hibernal period. familiar to Messrs T&G from our Household mice hungrier than first days. usual? Time to upgrade the tweed As for the cricket, if he visits two-piece - or at the very least your hearth before November, he’s exchange the light wool navy telling you to order a stout worsted number for a stylish new serge suit. herringbone three-piece with turn- Fat, furry caterpillars presage ups and slant pockets. bitter cold – or form the ideal excuse Resistance is futile.
The little On pre-Christmas ice age bicycling Mr Thresher began trading in a prolonged cold snap. In fact the You’ll need some lights. A and stout of seat. If you intend winter of 1683-4 saw the deepest lock. An impregnable sense of to cycle in your suit (and Mr ice and the longest Frost Fair self-esteem. Oh, and a bicycle. Thresher can’t be kept from the ever seen upon the Thames. An A helmet is optional: there’s no practice despite Mr Glenny’s eyewitness: evidence that their effect is on imprecations), we can at least The Thames was so frozen that balance positive, but most these advise on fabrics not to choose. a great street from the Temple to days vote with their heads. Southwark was built with shops, As for the clothes south and all manner of things sold. of the neck, one can cycle in Mr T sold bodices, which can be anything - but you’d want it to made quite warm, so it’s hard to THE be breathable, dirt-resistant imagine an enterprising business in its maiden year not setting up a stall a short stroll away from itsT HRESHER premises hard by & the G LENNY Inns of Court. Either way, in matters of MISCELLANEA severe weather, we know whereof we speak. Mr Thresher thronged by crowds of cool customers ALL MATERIAL TAILORED BY T&G EDITION 301 OCTOBER 2011
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TAILORS • OUTFITTERS • SHIRTMAKERS • SINCE 1683 WWW.THRESHERANDGLENNY.COM Old twill, tweed, Stop press Nîmes and Genoa London’s Boris Johnson recommends T&G shirts in a celebrated style magazine... One hears weather-appropriate fabrics bandied and nods along. T&G appears in regular organ of Quilter, But is one confident one could bespoke investment managers since 1771... define them? Let us meander through a few. T&G G&Ts continue to lubricate regular Twill suggests it might share a open evenings, so contact us to enquire root with twin or twice, and indeed about yours... does: the weft is passed over at least two warp threads to give the diagonal weave characteristic of a twill fabric. Most winter threads are made in twill of one sort or another, the better to keep out the wind. Serge is a type of twill with weave but is always relatively de Nîmes, originally died with diagonal lines on each side in a rough and especially durable. It’s indigo on just the warp, the weft two-up, two-down weave. It featured clearly popular for country wear being left white – as on the inside of in that great T&G invention, the and city overcoats but also these traditional jeans. Jeans themselves Trench Coat, and is still favoured days for trendy young blades and are named after the French for for military, police or indeed office retro Fender amplifiers. Genoa, viz. Gênes. winter uniforms. Staying with the weekend, Denim We could go on. Do let us know if Tweed may have a plain or twill acquired its name from Serge you’d like us to. ThresherandGlenny.com Thresherandglenny.com continues to attract enthusiastic On the Greatcoat audiences across the earth, while privately testing the configurator that will allow customers in far-flung fields to order made-to-measure threads as if from Middle Temple Lane. Nothing better befits a leader of men: see Watch this space for news of our public launch - and warn Wellington, Napoleon, Patton, Churchill. Now expatriate friends to wait a month or so before considering contrast with Lt Colombo, Inspector Clouseau wardrobe upgrades. and Frank Spencer. You see? Indisputable. Nothing works as well as a made-to-measure overcoat, nor makes a finer future heirloom. When you consider alternative ways of spending the same money, and assuming one is already equipped with digital SLR, few come close in terms of memory generation. It’s your legacy. Manage it wisely.
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