Times have changed

[nineveh_uk]

In homage, one must assume, to the Spring that is not yet come, gentlemen's outfitters Ede & Ravenscroft have a rather attractive primrose-colour shirt in the window display. This is the shop that in the Autumn had a replica of Nelson's dress uniform, as made by the London branch a couple of centuries ago.

Had I a time machine, I should not now go and look on the wonders of Persepolis. I should go and fetch the 1920s head tailor of Ede & Ravenscroft and observe him spontaneously combust as he saw a primrose-colour shirt in the window of his shop. Or perhaps not. Perhaps he wished all his life he could display such a thing, for which the world was not yet prepared.

ETA: If you haven't seen it, wemyss posts exclusive Classic Comedy on WWN7: the finale of this season of Through the Wood.

“Oooah, hullo, I’m Lucius, and this is my friend Ginger!’”

Read it and collapse helplessly over the keyboard.

Comments

[gramarye1971]

*chortles* I don't even think Bertie Wooster's decorated neckties, modernist spats and striped waistcoats can compare to a primrose-colour shirt.

Jeeves?

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

Jeeves wd blackmail Bertie into giving the offending shirt to charity ... or to Spode ... probably by means involving Aunt Dahlia, Anatole, Maddy Basset, and Gussy Fink-Nottle. And the under-14s egg and spoon race at the village sports on the vicarage lawn.

Thank you so vy, vy much - many, MANY times - for the kind word. Did you see the post two back of that with excerpts from the season-ending programme of I'm Sorry, I'm Not on the Floo? You might be amused.

[tree_and_leaf]

Ah, but still, Ede and Ravenscroft effortlessly outclasses brasher rivals like Shepherd and Woodward and Walters (are you talking about the Oxford branch, perchance? I remember the Nelson uniform, but I'm not sure from when...)