FFS…
Carrying on from the show thread.
Want. 
Alas my dreams of living in Germany and wearing lederhosen freely have been dashed by brexit.
Can’t you bung your local councilor a couple of grand to twine your town to something appropriate?
Bring the mountain to Mohamed so to speak?
Not a weird place at all. Was a bit of an odd find one holiday.
Not sure alpine village in the fens works quite as well.
The epitome of single use masks.
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Excellent 
Plus eco recycling.
This cunt looks like someone who shit themself so catastrophically they had to bin what they were wearing, hose themself, down and then borrow random items of clothing from several total strangers, all of wildly-different build…
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I enjoyed this earlier, so true. For every suit and trainer guy there are several twats going way up their own arses online about custom tailoring, trying to understand style by how something measures and counting the stitching etc, etc. The internet is producing a whole generation of anal bespoke tailoring customers who are over informed, yet clueless. It would be hilarious if I didnt have to engage with them. The fact I’m a hifi bore makes it doubly pertinent! 
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Style measurebators - The logical climax of Hipster authenticity?
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It’s more the tragically un-hip, trying to quantify what makes style and a luxury menswear thing. Quite far removed from the notion of hipster.
There is an emerging customer base out there, informed by the internet who turn up with lists; a mutitude of questions worrying about which check will match where, how many layers of horse hair are used in the chest, how deep the pocket flaps will be, etc, etc. They can be surrounded with examples of tailoring but still ask for an explanation of the *‘house style.’ They can’t trust their eyes and want to start measuring it. People with a lot of money they earn in insurance or accountancy or whatever who dont trust easily and completely lack any freedom or creativity. Generally, if you ask this guy how he’d like to look, how he’d want to his suit to be, a look of panic spreads across his face…
- the ‘house style’ is kind of a ridiculous concept in bespoke tailoring. You can make a nicely proportioned jacket in a 38 regular that has a look but that look will change dramatically as soon as you are making the jacket for some big fat cunt or a bean pole, limbo dancer. “My lapel looks wider than the one in the window.” What do you say to that guy? It’s tiny and you’re vast?
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Got it, a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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It’s the tragic tale of the introverted trying to make their first steps to assert/ express themselves and then getting scared off at the first crisis of confidence!
I remember a very quiet kid in our class turning up to some after school thing wearing a beret. The very moment he walked in someone shouted “Beret!!!” and pointed at him, which prompted his shaky tissue thin bravado to disappear, whereupon the hat was vanished quick as a flash and he fled all the way up the school drive.
Not too hard to imagine the nickname he endured for the next 4 years for that one fleeting moment of misplaced self expression.
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Nub of so many issues in consumerism - reduce everything to a kind of Top Trumps match of meaningless, easily-manipulated stats.
It’s a triumph of marketing - use a random set of simplistic values to convince the herd that they’ve made a wise and informed choice and they’ll do any silly fuckwitted thing you want them to.
Whoever’s best at it, Wins at capitalism (Apple, Rolex, Porsche, Tories…).
I guess you’re getting the distracted stragglers who have heard that there’s an alternative, but whom life has failed to equip with the discriminatory powers to benefit from it…
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