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Thomas Farthing, Museum Street. WC1 https://thomasfarthing.co.uk/products/reuben-high-crown-fedora-hat-brown

Walking Stick, Leon Redbone in the Tango stylee. Oh the thing that makes me click on lovers lane.

Thank you for the kind words mate. In truth though, unless there is another pandemic, I can't see me ... Maybe 'mathgrrl' will have configured a machine knit soon and we can all have one at the press of a button!! atb.

Thank you. A cottage industry?? It took me ages! I'm not a fluent knitter like perhaps your granny but I'm good at the technical stuff which came into its own as the finished fabric is completely different in size to other knitted fabrics so there are no knitting patterns. The fabric is double...

Also in Yorkshire/Bridlington are Flamborough Marine who make bespoke Gansey's. They're handknitted instead of machine (and so you have to pay the premium) but they leap from two dimensions into three, kind of sculptural if you will. Here's Daniel Day Lewis wearing a copy of his Fathers Gansey...

For sure. Thank you Mikael. Loving your 70mm ribbon btw. Hmmm.

I think you've done your homework there Trevor. Online is pretty much your only choice for cheap panamas in Blighty. Bricks and mortar stores mainly retail Christys' or Olney panamas but Olney stopped making hats last year! For myself, Ebay and others have kept me in everyday straw for a few...

Ha Ha Vic, yes I do and one or two from other tailors! Plus over the years some vintage tweed suits, jackets and overcoats. You said in your first post that the jacket and waistcoat/vest were tight and that 48" was their largest size 'ready made'. Asian sizes are notoriously small as you know...

I have six Empire Outlet suits. I've got six because they're so reasonably priced. Looking at their website it might be possible to be shocked by their choice of very loud and garish checks, however, looking deeper you may notice some very tastefull tweeds. I have three herringbone three piece...

Recevez-vous des décharges électriques statiques?

Thanks Robert, Mikael says it's 5.5" and measuring it, 14cm it is open crown, so 5 inches to the center dent at the front. I have a few hats with a 6" crown, 5" center crease but none of them look this big! I presume that is the magic/optical illusion of the reverse taper ... the crown looks so...

Fair Isle

It's not my custom to post pictures of myself online but I did today .... In thanks to Mikael for letting me have his first Oxblood Dillinger 100X (also available for other orders I'm sure). Everything about this hat is exquisite. The design, construction, the materials and colour. Two pictures...