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1st May 2014, 08:09 PM
#11
Re: Trouser Bar
One of the best suits I ever had was from the Salvation Army on 8th Ave in New york. cost 8 dollars at 2,5 to a pound was £3 and ten shillings or so.
It was silk and midnight blue semi drape. I looked a million dollars wearing that, with a genuine fake rolex oyster watch and 20 Luckies in the top pocket, mid atlantic accent, . all the girls in the Locarno in Liverpool used to scream after me, in 1956. I always carried a few packets of 15 denier Du Pont nylon stockings in the inside pocket, the girls would do anything for those,
All the suits in the Salvation Army in New York came from the City Morgue. Mother darned the three bullet holes in the back but the dry cleaning could not remove the dark stain inside the lining.
Happy Days,
Brian.
Last edited by Captain Kong; 1st May 2014 at 08:13 PM.
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2nd May 2014, 05:47 AM
#12
Re: Trouser Bar

Originally Posted by
j.sabourn
#9... Did you have to ask the customers Vernon, which side they dressed. Nowadays if someone asked me that I would just say the Middle. Cheers John S
If you had been asked that question on UCL the reply would depend on wether you were a tourist or firts calss winger.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller

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