Anonymous wrote: Anonymous wrote: you are now showing just how little you know about the taxi trade.
the train opperating company are out of order full stop> If coucils say that cars should be smart then why shouldn't drivers. If drivers dont like the rules then dont sit at the station. We should be trying to improve our standards not letting the scruffy gits win.
one does not need to wear a collar and tie to be smart, you can wear a collar and tie and not be smart!
which is as well, setting up a new venture, I am shortly to be attending a round of important meetings, so today after looking dor a tailor after mine retired, and establishing that these days suits are bought off the peg.
I visited Huddersfield in order to buy a beige suit, brown shirt and beige tie shouldnt be difficult I thought!
Now I have not done this for years, up to last year I phoned my tailor who came round with pattern and cloth samples and I would have choice of at least a thousand.with style patterns of about one hundred and fifty
In to Burtons, all the sales staff smartly dressed in jeans and t shirts, choice of off the peg patterns about 10, but there was a beige suit I liked the colour and style, the quality of the cloth was very poor, at least to what I am acostomed too.
special offer suit shirt and tie for £130, the wife said I would need beige socks, I only have black albeit thousands, so we needed them 3 pairs for £10, though we got them half price, or 2 packs for the price of one.
we did take a brown shirt with a dubious pattern and a brown tie, though it didnt suit but was part of the deal, incidently Burtons to my amazement did not sport a tape measure, so suits and trousers had to be tried till we got the right size 
We left and into Top Man looking dor a brown shirt and beige tie!
we said to the topman wearing jeans amd t shirt we need a brown shirt and a beige tie.
"aw yer dont want that you want this" pointing to an awfull yellow shirt.
"young man", said I" do you have a suit"? well no excepting for a matching denem top to go with his jeans, we talk here about a district that produced some of the finest cloth in years gone bye!
we left that shop, we entered a department store, formely c and a, There were no smart collar shirts there at all, all horrible check patterns, never seen so much crap assembled in one place!
I know said the wife lets go to Marks and Spencer! well thats changed since I was last in, you could have any colour of plain shirt as long as they were white! what was there was horrible.
Into Greenwoods, years of dressing men they had beige, yellow, white, but no brown. but the salestaff srill well dressed in denham!
time for coffee we went to British Home Stores and had a look at thier menswear as we were there, poor shirts, poor patterns, poor quality and again in plain colours only white.
looked round the Market which fared better blood red, white, beige,blue both light and dark, green both spearmint and dark, alas no brown.
this was beggining to be a challenge, as we were passing an expensive suit hire shop and tailor (which was noted for next year) we popped in guess what? the salesman in his 50s smart and wearing both collar and tie very helpfull no call for brown these days, though he dug one out, the cloth felt like velvet, very comfortable nice, though the shade was a little light it was German made ,priced at £50 ,he offered it me for £35, and we bought a beige tie for £15.
We did look in the co-op which had a wide range of aquare gaudy coloured shirts.
Came home to look on the internet, same story poor quality foreign made shirts.
now lets come to GNER staff, poor sods they look uncomfortable in heavy navy blue with bright red stripes, you can glimpse from outside the station.
which get a stare.
so why dont people dress smart in collars anymore?
beccause textiles are produced not in Britain but backward hot third world nations and not tailored to high British standards, nor frankly do they appreciate our needs.
and whilst we are fobbed off with poor quality, designer labels this will continue.
Geoff
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