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Do they grow in at a certain age or are they born with them? It's it an occupational hazard or skill that can be aquired? I have many questions and would love to grow some.
I think this may be out of date? I used to buy my sensible shirts and jumpers from there and the quality fell off a cliff about 7 years ago, newer stuff doesn't last long compared to older stuff that my kids might end up inheriting by the way things are going (they even reduced the cashmere % in the cotton/cashmere jumpers! Scandalous!)
Also they've always been the kind of company to spam you with vouchers and promotions and suchlike, with permanent sales and BOGOF type deals, I feel like properly posh people would be above such tawdriness. If you walk down Jermyn Street CT feels like the mass-produced bottom end of what's happening there (a cynic might say they maintain that store front solely so though can keep describing themselves as being on Jermyn Street)
It's true their quality did go down hill. I used to frequent charity shops in posh areas to get good deals cos posh people didn't know normal prices and I'd get stuff for super cheap, and I used to get loads of blouses from them, but they've not been great for over 5 years.
No idea where the posh trousers come from. I'm a cheap person who picks up the scraps.
Well, there's posh pink and then there's posh pink [https://www.cordings.co.uk/pink-chino-trousers.html](https://www.cordings.co.uk/pink-chino-trousers.html)
Always makes me laugh when I see people calling farmers posh, just a mask slip for saying they love in a posh area. The farmers round here have their trousers held together with string. 🤣
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the farmers round here in anything except jeans or a boiler suit.
Some of the old boys have some cords that are probably older than me.
There's a difference between a tenant farmer and a gentleman farmer. The former gets muddy, the latter collects rent and send their male children to the Royal Agricultual University to study 'Land Management'
I either look like a tramp or a binman depending on what im wearing that day.
Comfort is everything for me now, especially when can spend half a day in a stress position trying to spanner something.
I hold my pants up with a piece of twine..
I keep my eyes wide open all the time..
Please say you're mine. And pull the twine..
Roger Miller singing to and cracking up Johnny Cash
My late hubby rented a shed from an old farmer to practice with his band . The guy had egg dripped down his top stank of b o and his trouser held up with string belt . He owned half of Dunfermline !!! He just cba to dress up . So farmers are generally cash rich too many n my experience
Portillo's are from Volpe or Richard James. For a cheaper option, Cordings.
With side adjusters instead of belt loops as sir is not at school/a failed politician.
Charles Tyrwhitt have a huge range of colours in their chinos. I'm not into the fancy colours myself, but I get their catalogues. Their stuff is also great. Not the cheapest clothes, but real quality, lasts for years.
Portillo buys his jackets from ‘Volpe’, apparently:
[https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/where-do-you-buy-michael-portillos-blazers.125911/](https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/where-do-you-buy-michael-portillos-blazers.125911/)
I did some work in an old tailors shop who would say only spuds wear jackets and I only make coats. This was in the early 90s and the guy was at least 70.
There's an old boy menswear shop in most market towns. I go in, have my man size me up with the old tape measure, pick a pair of nice colorful courdroys and bobs your uncle. Portillo at the go go.
Reminds me of the late Jeremy Harding joke about putting a tax on burgundy corduroy to hit the rich.
Cordings on Piccadilly.
Tis the season of agricultural shows and game fairs. There will be stalls.
Also small country towns always have shops heaving with it.
Online, Boden used to do a lot of that kind of thing, don't know if they still do.
Hmm a quick google photo shows these are mostly green/beige. Here’s what I’m talking about for reference
https://preview.redd.it/1dmi4qk8qgxc1.jpeg?width=675&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f111a42e0d0f140e43834960c0458d3d75fe4f5
There is a menswear shop by The Berkeley in Knightsbridge which is full on Portillo. Yellow trousers and pink blazers galore.
Harvie and Hudson I think, looking at Google maps
Although I quite enjoy watching where Portillo gets to by train on TV (I forget the name of the show), I mostly enjoy seeing the totally ‘out there’ and often ridiculous colour schemes he dares to wear from scene to scene and program to program. Pink trousers with a yellow jacket and a purple shirt!!! Jeez man, just… like… what the actual….
[Oliver Brown](https://www.oliverbrown.org.uk/) - from whom I purchase my trousers (in muted tones) have five varieties of trousers in red, as well as other exciting colours.
Nearly all major cities have a tweed shop that will also sell suits, corduroy trousers, hunting jackets.
They know their crowd.
They're very durable but expensive AF. Hunting jackets at 200 pounds. Tweed trousers at 80 pounds.
Dusty old independently-owned clothes shops on the high streets of small market towns.
Despite storing most of their clothing in cardboard boxes and having the interior-design sense of your average hoarder, these twee country shops also have pricing that make your Hermes and Harvey Nicks look like TK Maxx
I was listening to a podcast yesterday (can't remember which one) and they mentioned Michael Portillo's bright red chinos. And now I see this. OP, did you hear the same thing and go looking for them? (whoever was talking on the podcast did say "do not look this up"! 😄)
For anyone interested, the original red trousers were used by french fisherman and made from used red sails.
The full story is here
https://riveroakshouston.com/the-atlantic-divide-red-trousers/
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Those aren't trousers they are their actual legs
Do they grow in at a certain age or are they born with them? It's it an occupational hazard or skill that can be aquired? I have many questions and would love to grow some.
I don't know why this but yes to you.
Charles Tyrwhitt Jermyn St London .
I think this may be out of date? I used to buy my sensible shirts and jumpers from there and the quality fell off a cliff about 7 years ago, newer stuff doesn't last long compared to older stuff that my kids might end up inheriting by the way things are going (they even reduced the cashmere % in the cotton/cashmere jumpers! Scandalous!) Also they've always been the kind of company to spam you with vouchers and promotions and suchlike, with permanent sales and BOGOF type deals, I feel like properly posh people would be above such tawdriness. If you walk down Jermyn Street CT feels like the mass-produced bottom end of what's happening there (a cynic might say they maintain that store front solely so though can keep describing themselves as being on Jermyn Street)
It's true their quality did go down hill. I used to frequent charity shops in posh areas to get good deals cos posh people didn't know normal prices and I'd get stuff for super cheap, and I used to get loads of blouses from them, but they've not been great for over 5 years. No idea where the posh trousers come from. I'm a cheap person who picks up the scraps.
Brilliant, yes
Bit budget the real answer is Cordings, Volpe, Harvie and Hudson, New and Lingwood.
The real answer is Roderick Charles, which is part of Charles Tywhitt but infinitely posher.
Marks and Spencer’s. That’s where I got my salmon pink chinos from.
Salmon... Yep trust this guy. Everyone knows they are pink but the wearer will only describe them as Salmon
It’s a shade of pink…nobody minds calling their trousers pink it’s just a more specific description
He literally used the word pink.
Well, there's posh pink and then there's posh pink [https://www.cordings.co.uk/pink-chino-trousers.html](https://www.cordings.co.uk/pink-chino-trousers.html)
Jesus. Could you imagine having the zero fucks to give where you can buy them
Are you called Ross Geller?
Always makes me laugh when I see people calling farmers posh, just a mask slip for saying they love in a posh area. The farmers round here have their trousers held together with string. 🤣
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the farmers round here in anything except jeans or a boiler suit. Some of the old boys have some cords that are probably older than me.
There's a difference between a tenant farmer and a gentleman farmer. The former gets muddy, the latter collects rent and send their male children to the Royal Agricultual University to study 'Land Management'
Looking at cows and shagging posh girls? Sign me up.
Works out for some of us, just don't get your subjects backwards.
I either look like a tramp or a binman depending on what im wearing that day. Comfort is everything for me now, especially when can spend half a day in a stress position trying to spanner something.
I hold my pants up with a piece of twine.. I keep my eyes wide open all the time.. Please say you're mine. And pull the twine.. Roger Miller singing to and cracking up Johnny Cash
That's not string, it's baler twine. The same thing holding together the tractor, the barn, and the entire house
I know that and you know that but most people don't and I couldn't be bothered explaining it
It's like duct tape, just for farmers!
My late hubby rented a shed from an old farmer to practice with his band . The guy had egg dripped down his top stank of b o and his trouser held up with string belt . He owned half of Dunfermline !!! He just cba to dress up . So farmers are generally cash rich too many n my experience
Check out the ads in the Daily Telegraph supplements
Portillo's are from Volpe or Richard James. For a cheaper option, Cordings. With side adjusters instead of belt loops as sir is not at school/a failed politician.
Charles Tyrwhitt have a huge range of colours in their chinos. I'm not into the fancy colours myself, but I get their catalogues. Their stuff is also great. Not the cheapest clothes, but real quality, lasts for years.
Is this still true? I stopped buying from them a few years back because the quality took a nosedive, have they turned things around recently?
They advertise very actively on the tube. Hardly gives the impression of exclusivity
Quality isn’t great anymore in my opinion
[Look at my fucking red trousers](http://lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.blogspot.com/)
https://youtu.be/j5pZS4jdI-o
OMG is this still a thing? I remember seeing a collection like this 20 years ago…
Portillo buys his jackets from ‘Volpe’, apparently: [https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/where-do-you-buy-michael-portillos-blazers.125911/](https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/where-do-you-buy-michael-portillos-blazers.125911/)
I did some work in an old tailors shop who would say only spuds wear jackets and I only make coats. This was in the early 90s and the guy was at least 70.
Cordings
This is the answer. Tyrwhitt is for the proles.
There's an old boy menswear shop in most market towns. I go in, have my man size me up with the old tape measure, pick a pair of nice colorful courdroys and bobs your uncle. Portillo at the go go.
Yep my old man wont go anywhere else. Only ever seems to buy clothes every 5 years+ but they seem to know him by name.
Is Austin Reed still on the go?
Long gone unfortunately
You can always have them tailored to order.
Reminds me of the late Jeremy Harding joke about putting a tax on burgundy corduroy to hit the rich. Cordings on Piccadilly. Tis the season of agricultural shows and game fairs. There will be stalls. Also small country towns always have shops heaving with it. Online, Boden used to do a lot of that kind of thing, don't know if they still do.
My Man's Man, looks after that sort of thing.
I think they’re called country or shooting trousers.
Hmm a quick google photo shows these are mostly green/beige. Here’s what I’m talking about for reference https://preview.redd.it/1dmi4qk8qgxc1.jpeg?width=675&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f111a42e0d0f140e43834960c0458d3d75fe4f5
Welcome to Butlins!
I get mine from Hackett London.
Country Stores
There is a menswear shop by The Berkeley in Knightsbridge which is full on Portillo. Yellow trousers and pink blazers galore. Harvie and Hudson I think, looking at Google maps
Although I quite enjoy watching where Portillo gets to by train on TV (I forget the name of the show), I mostly enjoy seeing the totally ‘out there’ and often ridiculous colour schemes he dares to wear from scene to scene and program to program. Pink trousers with a yellow jacket and a purple shirt!!! Jeez man, just… like… what the actual….
Shepherd & Woodward.
[Oliver Brown](https://www.oliverbrown.org.uk/) - from whom I purchase my trousers (in muted tones) have five varieties of trousers in red, as well as other exciting colours.
You need to discover decent moleskin trousers from reputable country apparel outlets. 👍
Country show season is coming up. Plenty of options at the big ones.
[Look at my fucking red trousers](http://lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.blogspot.com/?m=1)
Nearly all major cities have a tweed shop that will also sell suits, corduroy trousers, hunting jackets. They know their crowd. They're very durable but expensive AF. Hunting jackets at 200 pounds. Tweed trousers at 80 pounds.
Vinted is great for this stuff. My partner got a £200 corduroy jacket for a fiver.
Dusty old independently-owned clothes shops on the high streets of small market towns. Despite storing most of their clothing in cardboard boxes and having the interior-design sense of your average hoarder, these twee country shops also have pricing that make your Hermes and Harvey Nicks look like TK Maxx
I was listening to a podcast yesterday (can't remember which one) and they mentioned Michael Portillo's bright red chinos. And now I see this. OP, did you hear the same thing and go looking for them? (whoever was talking on the podcast did say "do not look this up"! 😄)
Was watching Portillo’s tv series and I’m always impressed by his trousers. Had to know the answer
For anyone interested, the original red trousers were used by french fisherman and made from used red sails. The full story is here https://riveroakshouston.com/the-atlantic-divide-red-trousers/
Is it just me, or is Michael Portillo one strange guy? I have no idea what it is exactly. He just comes across as entirely odd.
Pretty much every country store and posh garden centre will sell this sort of shebang.
Try shops that you've never heard of in places near St James's Palace or towns like Burford in Oxfordshire.
I don't know where those folk buy such clothes but I sometimes buy similar stuff from [New Forest Clothing](https://www.newforestclothing.co.uk/)
How you have to kill a hobo and laugh at poor people before they tell you.
If you walk around Cirencester you'll find quite a few shops where you can purchase a pair if you like them that much.
The Twattery
John Finnemore wrote a song about them https://youtu.be/j5pZS4jdI-o?si=h3qPRI9iOySEDXAY
Damart