Re: [CR]Photos of 1930's English Clubmen

(Example: Framebuilders:Dario Pegoretti)

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From: "neil foddering" <neilfoddering@hotmail.com>
To: triodelover@comcast.net
Subject: Re: [CR]Photos of 1930's English Clubmen
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:29:45 +0000
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Surely not Phil! But if you really do, try eBay, but search using the keyword "breeks" - there are usually lots for sale, since English game shooters (hunters) still wear them. In fact, I've just looked, and there are assorted sizes on eBay at the moment with a Buy it Now price of GBP37 per pair.

If you should use them, avoid the rain - I've heard it's pretty unpleasant having cold, wet, tweed flapping around your legs, having absorbed about ten pounds of water...

Neil Foddering Weymouth, Dorset, England


>From: Phil Sieg <triodelover@comcast.net>
>To: neil foddering <neilfoddering@hotmail.com>
>CC: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: Re: [CR]Photos of 1930's English Clubmen
>Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:22:28 -0400
>
>Now what I want to know is where to get a pair of Plus Fours.
>
>Phil Sieg
>Knoxville, Tennessee
>USA
>
>neil foddering wrote:
>>
>>
>>In view of the interest that's been stirred up by my mention of
>>traditional cycling shorts (I've had quite a number of off-list emails)
>>I've loaded a few pages from the 1930's photo albums I bought a couple of
>>years back onot a photohosting site. The photos include pics of the album
>>owner, his family, cycling friends and places he visited, and I've
>>selected a few which I may be of interest.
>>
>>They depict the clothing of the ordinary clubmen in a style which semms to
>>have spanned the years from the late 1920's to the early 1950's, and can
>>be viewed at:
>>
>>http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v396/hadendowa/1930s%20Photos/
>>
>>Neil Foddering
>>Weymouth, Dorset, England.