I’d get that looked at it if I were you
Bring a whole new dynamic to a kick up the hole
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Big protest outside the new Shein shop on Oxford Street, slave labour in China… There is a queue half the length of Oxford Street to get in for the shops opening day. 
Off to Uniqlo now to buy a few bits of business casual attire for Q4. The bootcuts are in tatters.
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Cc @the_ulterior_motive
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A shoe of a confident man
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That’s a beautiful coat. What’s the damage?
Any reason not to purchase these?
Like the shoe that fellas with one leg shorter than the other would wear.
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600 hundred pound. You’d have it for life
cloth is thick, heavy barleycorn tweed, Donegal writ through. The yarn — a warp of mid-brown and a weft of dark brown — is alive with tufts of unexpected shades, from off-white to auburn. It is merino lambswool, softer than one might assume, and fairs mightily well in the wet and the windy.
A classic walking coat, this: long and single-breasted, and with a two-piece raglan sleeve that allows a great range of movement in the upper body. Very helpful when it comes to layering, too. “Balmacaan” is the traditional name for this style of coat — from the Balmacaan forest in Scotland.
The coat has a collar of sizeable proportions, cut to sit straight when down, and really hug the neck when up. On one side there is a little tab. This buttons across, one side to the other, and keeps the collar upright when the going gets gusty. It can be buttoned back, too, or let to hang loose and lopsided.
There’s a short cuff tab, running backwards from the outer sleeve seam, which offers two levels of tightness.
The buttons on the coat are horn, dark in colour and matte in finish. Because each is a thing of nature, they each differ subtly in shade and marking, one to the neck. The coat has a fly-front, with the buttons hidden away when fastened, so less likely to snag on barbed wire, bramble, and other outdoor perils.
The pockets are set at just the right height for the comfortable plunging of hands, and they’re covered by flaps which shield wrists from the wind and rain. Simple enough, you might assume, but they have a secret, these pockets: they serve as a channel which leads to and emerges from the inside of the coat.
Outerwear history says this originates in army coats from a century or more ago — making it easy to access the shirt or jacket or trouser worn underneath the coat. It is both a great party trick and an easy way to access your personal effects with your weaker hand if your lead hand is clutching a coffee.
At the back lurks a deep vent, extending over a third up the length of the coat. It is constructed in the old-fashioned and faintly over-complicated manner of mid-century British walking coats, and means there’s more coat to the coat to expand when the wearer lurches forwards or sideways.
One more pocket: this time on the inside, on the left-side as worn, and set a little lower than normal to make things easier on the elbows. It is a chest pocket of standard wallet- or mobile-size.
The coat is lined halfway down the back with a smooth and slinky satin, cut as a single panel. It helps with sliding the balmacaan on and off, being as the outer cloth has the
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Beautiful shoe
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Now I know what’s been missing from all the coats that I’ve every owned, a deep lurking vent.
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Unless you laved it in the pub after you stephenses night and you only gone out for one hour at 11am
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That’s living
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Fair itchy I’d say.