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

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Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:10:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Syke - Deranged Few M/C" <sykerocker@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Photos of 1930's English Clubmen
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <MONKEYFOOD8WKGF3Vcu00002219@monkeyfood.nt.phred.org>


Actually, making plus fours (to the Americans: breeches, britches, or knee-breeches) are incredibly simple:

Hit you local Goodwill and fine a couple of pairs of wool trousers. Don't sorry about length, just make sure they fit well in the waist and seat. Cut them off just below the knee, and use the remaining material to make an overlapping cuff. Add button hole and button, and you've got a perfectly good pair of plus-fours.

OK, to me it's simple - I've spent fifteen years sewing professionally, running an English Civil War sutlery (to our English bretheren who understand the concept, it's Syke, Sgt. of Musket, third company of Sir Thomas Blackwell's Rgt. of Foote, King's Army, ECWS - retired these last five years), and prior to that, it's how I made my cross-country skiing breeches. That's how I trained when the snow made it impossible to cycle.

Unfortunately, since I moved to VA, the cross-country skiis have done nothing but gather dust. And I haven't sewed a pair of breeches in years. Just the same, I'm looking at these pictures and starting to wonder if there's a local market for this stuff . . . .

George R. "Syke" Paczolt
Montpelier, VA USA
Deranged Few M/C


--- classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org wrote:


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

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