1963beretta
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Well, isn’t that a handy thing!!!
Trying to raise the style standard
- Thread starter Londonshooter
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Well, isn’t that a handy thing!!!
I’m saving my pennies for a pair of $750 rubber boots.Le Chameau leather lined.
Apparently I can press down on the pedals of my Range Rover shooting brake better with those boots.
You cannot go wrong with those. I've had a pair for nigh on 25 years and never never have regretted it; with those on I can wade through the cedar swamps here with never a thought. They're very good to walk in, my socks don't sink down in them either.
I was in Vermont about 5 years ago, in Manchester, and after a visit to Orvis, stopped into a fine gun store called Covey Rise. They were moving and blowing out some inventory. Foolishly I did not snap up the Le Chameau’s that fit me for $275 USD.
I have never tried a deerstalker hat. My fashionista hunting buddies say I dress like I just got off the boat. I guess it is time to move on up. There is nothing wrong with Filson...but.
Are there any places in Canada that sell deerstalkers ? There are numerous merchants in the British Isles.
Are there any places in Canada that sell deerstalkers ? There are numerous merchants in the British Isles.
The flagship Orvis store is where I got mine, during a similar sale. But I never even heard Covey Rise had a store, never mind in Manchester, and I try to make a point of getting to the area every year. Is that where they are/were?
The Scottish and Irish Store in Ottawa carries them. Ask me how I know.
I'm looking at the Harris Tweed hunting jacket on the Gaston sale site. Real Harris Tweed is almost a dead industry and the loss of Gaston, if that's what's happening, may finish them off. Last I heard, anyway.
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Awesome Patrick that’s perfect !
You’re in good company John, MrBates’ character was a fine gentleman indeed.
And Patrick nice French coat btw, fine threads
The problem with looking the part is there’s more pressure not to miss...
^^^ Since we're getting into deep Brit-Euro fashion waters here, I believe what Mr Bates is wearing a to-be-expected-for-a-person-of-his-station Bowler style hat, whereas what Mr Patrick is sporting is more of a Homberg.
I've been thinking about my deerstalker hat since the posts here this morning. I bought for two reasons, the first being that it fit me perfectly, which is a big deal for me, and secondly as a sort of a work related half-joke that I wore occasionally in the city but never in the field, quite the reverse of what an English or Scottish gentleman would do. I don't wear it shooting because of simple embarrassment, fear of looking like an English tenderfoot doofus, but the fact is that I would really like to. It's a perfect hat for the purpose in many ways you see: warm pure wool, double brimmed (both shielding your eyes and the back of your neck from the sun and other weather elements, perfect let-down ear flaps that can be tied under the chin to keep it on your head in any hurricane, made of a silent material for pushing through the brush, it's better functioning than any other hat, really, except that it's not blaze orange for max safety. Maybe someday I WILL wear mine in the field, Sherlock Holmes image be damned.
Sherlock Holmes would rarely if ever have worn one BTW, he was a London gentleman who was in the country on maybe two occasions: for The Musgrave Ritual and The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Londonshooter
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- Location
- SW Ontario
It's a Fedora. A Homburg is quite a stylish lid though, for someone foppish enough to pull it off. Parkspipes should look into that. A yak felt Homburg - even better!
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sillymike
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Isn't there a joke about this?
- Two women show up at an event, with the same outfit... the fight is on.
- Two guys show up with the same outfit... Instant best friend!
Thought fedoras had a broader brim, at least mine do. But I see a homburg is supposed to have a turned up rim around the brim, so my mistake.
Londonshooter
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- SW Ontario
No criticism implied, Mr. Bad.
A bowler would be appropriate. Originally commissioned by the Earl of Leicester's younger brother Edward Coke, William and Thomas Bowler of the hat makers Lock & Co. of 6 St James St., London, designed the 'bowler' for Coke's gamekeepers, as their top hats would get knocked over by branches etc.
As to what gamekeepers used to wear before the bowler, look to page 55 of Crudgington and Baker's The British Shotgun Volume One. Now that's stylish, and perfect for the next SxS Classic.
Lock & Co. is still in business (since 1686!), having had as neighbours on St James St. such notable gunmakers as J.D. Dougall, James Woodward, Stephen Grant, John Rigby, and Charles Moore, and currently, William Evans and Boss & Co.
As to what gamekeepers used to wear before the bowler, look to page 55 of Crudgington and Baker's The British Shotgun Volume One. Now that's stylish, and perfect for the next SxS Classic.
Lock & Co. is still in business (since 1686!), having had as neighbours on St James St. such notable gunmakers as J.D. Dougall, James Woodward, Stephen Grant, John Rigby, and Charles Moore, and currently, William Evans and Boss & Co.
I would suggest that would really up the style quotient!
maple_leaf_eh
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The Musgrave Ritual had nothing to do with single shot bolt action target rifles from South Africa. I was disappointed.
maple_leaf_eh
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No. The prairie people I met on the hunt were wearing ball caps, tuques or some other warm hat. Not their prettiest rodeo lids.
