for Ryan

You already have the socks:
http://i35.tinypic.com/2qbxdux.jpg

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

In article ,
wrote:

You already have the socks:
http://i35.tinypic.com/2qbxdux.jpg

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

This can't end well. Especially since I was already musing on the idea
of summer-weight tweed riding breeches and a jacket to match.

Also, what vintage is that Ad? Note that it has a solicitation for their
mail-order business, but their address as given in full is "Strawbridge
& Clothier, Philadelphia".

--
Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/
"In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
"In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."

On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:18:55 GMT, Ryan Cousineau
wrote:

In article ,
wrote:

You already have the socks:
http://i35.tinypic.com/2qbxdux.jpg

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

This can't end well. Especially since I was already musing on the idea
of summer-weight tweed riding breeches and a jacket to match.

Also, what vintage is that Ad? Note that it has a solicitation for their
mail-order business, but their address as given in full is "Strawbridge
& Clothier, Philadelphia".

Dear Ryan,

It appears fairly often in the 1897 "Good Roads" magazine of the
League of American Wheelman, interspersed with calls for using convict
labor to improve the roads.

Once your ensemble is complete, you may want to add this accessory,
even if you don't light it:
http://i35.tinypic.com/25j839w.jpg

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

Ryan Cousineau wrote:
In article ,
wrote:

You already have the socks:
http://i35.tinypic.com/2qbxdux.jpg

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

This can't end well. Especially since I was already musing on the idea
of summer-weight tweed riding breeches and a jacket to match.

Flat cap! You forgot the flat cap, no gentleman worth his salt would
be seen out missing his tweed flat cap.

Also, what vintage is that Ad? Note that it has a solicitation for their
mail-order business, but their address as given in full is "Strawbridge
& Clothier, Philadelphia".

You only just missed the opportunity to get your tweed cycling kit;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawbridge%27s

On Nov 30, 10:18*pm, Ryan Cousineau wrote:
In article ,

wrote:
You already have the socks:
*http://i35.tinypic.com/2qbxdux.jpg

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

This can't end well. Especially since I was already musing on the idea
of summer-weight tweed riding breeches and a jacket to match.

Tweed jackets and gearhubs ... We're going to
have to stage an intervention and glue Oakleys to
your head before you turn into Grant Peterson and
start rattling on (stylishly) in rbt about knitting your
own cycling ties from hemp twine.

Also, what vintage is that Ad? Note that it has a solicitation for their
mail-order business, but their address as given in full is "Strawbridge
& Clothier, Philadelphia".

The post office is good at figuring partial addresses out,
so that address might have worked for much of the
20th century:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawbridge's

Ben

On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:18:55 +0000, Ryan Cousineau wrote:

In article ,
wrote:

You already have the socks:
http://i35.tinypic.com/2qbxdux.jpg

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

This can't end well. Especially since I was already musing on the idea
of summer-weight tweed riding breeches and a jacket to match.

Also, what vintage is that Ad? Note that it has a solicitation for their
mail-order business, but their address as given in full is "Strawbridge
& Clothier, Philadelphia".

Supposedly, when Ernest Hemingway was living in Toronto, the postal
service had no problem delivering letters from Ezra Pound addressed to
"Ernest Hemingway, Tomato, Can."

In article ,
wrote:

On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:18:55 GMT, Ryan Cousineau
wrote:

In article ,
wrote:

You already have the socks:
http://i35.tinypic.com/2qbxdux.jpg

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

This can't end well. Especially since I was already musing on the idea
of summer-weight tweed riding breeches and a jacket to match.

Also, what vintage is that Ad? Note that it has a solicitation for their
mail-order business, but their address as given in full is "Strawbridge
& Clothier, Philadelphia".

Dear Ryan,

It appears fairly often in the 1897 "Good Roads" magazine of the
League of American Wheelman, interspersed with calls for using convict
labor to improve the roads.

Once your ensemble is complete, you may want to add this accessory,
even if you don't light it:
http://i35.tinypic.com/25j839w.jpg

I'd take up smoking to own that thing!

Yeah, my ensemble is pretty much where I want it. The sweater is
probably the wrong kind of jaunty to be 1950s correct (wrong sport or
too early or too late for that style), but I fear an actual Norfolk
jacket would be a bit much for fast riding in any but the coldest
conditions.

Just in case anyone missed the denouement:

http://wiredcola.com/content/ride-style

Before and after photos, links to the 1955 "Cyclists' Special" Britrail
promo film, &c.

--
Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/
"In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
"In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."