Time-slip

[caddyman]

Cor, what a miserable morning; grey, leaden skies, damp fog with a bone-numbing chill to the air. The sun is trying to break through now, but it’s still miserable out there.

I got into the office a few minutes late, the knock-on effect of getting the tube a few minutes late because lounging my nice warm pit listening to Sir Terry was far more attractive a proposition than getting up and coming to work. Still, the tube train arrived promptly as I got to the platform, there were loads of seats, and no odd disruptions, and so the journey itself was reassuringly uneventful, allowing me to doze for another half hour on the way in.

Now none of this would warrant a journal entry if it wasn’t for the fact that I noticed a time anomaly at Euston while I was changing on to the Victoria Line for the final leg of the journey in.

There was a chap on the platform wearing a brown-yellow, coarse-materialed three-piece suit. His tie had the smallest Windsor knot I’ve ever seen, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the shirt collar was heavily starched. I didn’t notice if he had a fob watch. Now this gentleman, who must have been around 30-35 years old, had his hair cut short and Brylcreemed back, and his moustache was waxed to fine points.

He looked a little lost, and I’m not surprised: there was no way his Spitfire could possibly be down there.

Comments

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for English eccentrics!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Quite right, what?

Possibly a member of this illustrious society

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

http://www.thechap.net/

Re: Possibly a member of this illustrious society

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Indeed he might.

Splendid fellow.

Re: Possibly a member of this illustrious society

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

I havbe never heard of this intriguing magazine and subculture, and am most impressed. I notice that the mag is not available here in California. I'm sure that a gentleman dressed so stylishly would be an instant target of ridicule from local yokels with their dirty denims around their knees, and with not a shred of irony.

Re: Possibly a member of this illustrious society

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

The Chap is a fine magazine of some years standing.

Americans are not good with irony.

Re: Possibly a member of this illustrious society

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

The problem is, much as I'd love to dress in a more dapper fashion, we need somebody other than expensive gentleman's outfitters in London to stock the clobber, fine hats and good shoes in particular are hell to get hold of.