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**ViroBono** · 15-01-2008, 15:44

Originally Posted by BuggerAll

Gentlemen, some success. Thomas Silk, in Manchester, can make what I want. They called it the 'Captain Mark Phillips style' which is spot on. I'm not sure if I will boast about having Foggy as my sartorial role model but I suppose I could do worse!

I'd be interested in one. I have a tweed cap that I bought over 20 years ago in a little shop in Wetherby - whilst I think it looks and fits well it is beginning to look distinctly Dibnah-esque. In light of this thread I looked at my other, newer caps and they all have deeper backs and longer peaks.

Have they quoted a price yet?

**Sandbanks** · 15-01-2008, 15:47

Originally Posted by ViroBono

Originally Posted by BuggerAll

Gentlemen, some success. Thomas Silk, in Manchester, can make what I want. They called it the 'Captain Mark Phillips style' which is spot on. I'm not sure if I will boast about having Foggy as my sartorial role model but I suppose I could do worse!

I'd be interested in one. I have a tweed cap that I bought over 20 years ago in a little shop in Wetherby - whilst I think it looks and fits well it is beginning to look distinctly Dibnah-esque. In light of this thread I looked at my other, newer caps and they all have deeper backs and longer peaks.

Have they quoted a price yet?

Damn!! Next time I catch up with him I'll be expecting a few pints :D . Glad I was able to help.

**BuggerAll** · 15-01-2008, 15:50

Not a formal quote, it will depend on material, they're sending me some sample materials to pick from. They suggested in the region of £50 - £60.

**msr** · 15-01-2008, 16:45

I can definitely recommend the Failsworth Hats: http://www.failsworth-hats.co.uk/men...nav=mensThumbs

Very good finish and a reasonable price.

MSR

**thegimp** · 15-01-2008, 16:51

I got the old fella a barbour number for christmas, I think I may have underestimated the the size of his heed, but it seemed to sit how you like yours

**mr.fawlty** · 15-01-2008, 18:33

Here is another source of tweed caps at a good price, and plenty of other interesting things too:

Swaine Adeney Brigg Factory Shop

**BuggerAll** · 15-01-2008, 19:20

I looked at Papworth urgh!

The thing on thier website is hideous:

http://www.papworthtravelgoods.co.uk...ap1/index.html

**mr.fawlty** · 15-01-2008, 20:13

It's a normal tweed flat cap, probably Herbert Johnson, since it's the Swaine Adeney Brigg factory shop.

**gallowglass** · 15-01-2008, 21:32

If fellow ARRSErs will excuse me from immodestly referring back to one of my posts from November:

Originally Posted by gallowglass

Gentlemen, if ye'll permit me, I will recount an act of sartorial barbarity and hilarity which I was witness to last weekend.

Saturday saw the annual dinner of the Irish Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, which was held in the Kildare Street & University Club, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. Dress was black tie with orders and decorations. As someone who is due to become an aspirant to the Order in the coming months, I was invited along; I was looking forward to the event as I had been last year and the current Mrs. Gallowglass was accompanying me this year.

All went well until I caught sight of one of those who would be at our table - the fellow in question is about 5.11", and must weigh close to 22 stone (at least). His other redeeming qualties are that he has a head like a turnip, sweats like a pig, imagines himself to be the epitome of Englishness (he lives in London, speaks with an atrocious put-on accent, but has Irish parents and an Irish surname - think potatoes...), is obnoxious and, ah, shall we say, suffers (gladly) from the 'unbearable vice of the Greeks'... However, these 'qualities' aside, the thing which really did it for me was what he was wearing - I should point out that this fellow, despite being English (well, ostensibly), is an aspirant to the Order in Ireland (because the Grand Priory of England told him to foxtrot oscar). This fellow was wearing the dress cloak of the Italian Carabinieri, if you don't mind, which he had apparently acquired in Brussels of all places. Additionally, he was wearing said cloak indoors, at the pre-dinner reception; this natty sartorial statement was complimented by the black braces he was wearing with his cumberbund.

Words failed me then, and they fail me now.

God alone only knows what he'll be wearing next year, as he's already talking about having the full dress uniform of the Order made up for himself (one wonders if there is enough scarlet cloth in Western Europe for the purpose?).

Originally Posted by Private_Pike

It's a shame you didn't take photos- my imagination cannot be doing it justice.

Well now, it's funny you should say that...