Gun Club Check Appreciation Thread

[Mildly Consumptive]

Originally Posted by NewYorkRanger

What I figured...so it would need an overcheck on top of the houndstooth...


No, you would need it to be without houndstooth.

 

[Parker]

No, you'd need to lose the "teeth". The lines need to be straight. Like gingham or shepherd. Houndstooth:

Gun check:

 

[Film Noir Buff]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

No, I think that you used this forum correctly. - B
Truer words were never spoken

 

[Mildly Consumptive]

Originally Posted by Film Noir Buff

Truer words were never spoken

 

[AlanC]

Originally Posted by TC (Houston)

Also, can you guys point me to any resources to learn the names and characteristics of fabrics and patterns? I have most of flusser's books and I don't recall it ever being covered in great detail.

Assuming you've sufficiently justified your desire to know, track down a copy of The Elegant Man, by Riccardo Villarosa and Giuliano Angeli. It has a pretty comprehensive discussion of various fabrics with closeup pictures of each.

 

[Film Noir Buff]

Originally Posted by Mildly Consumptive

 

[TC (Houston)]

Originally Posted by AlanC

Assuming you've sufficiently justified your desire to know, track down a copy of The Elegant Man, by Riccardo Villarosa and Giuliano Angeli. It has a pretty comprehensive discussion of various fabrics with closeup pictures of each.

Excellent, thanks for your help Alan. Located and purchased.

 

[Film Noir Buff]

Originally Posted by AlanC

Assuming you've sufficiently justified your desire to know, track down a copy of The Elegant Man, by Riccardo Villarosa and Giuliano Angeli. It has a pretty comprehensive discussion of various fabrics with closeup pictures of each.
Maybe there should be severe penalties attached to failures to justify questions. Could you explain your demerit system to us?

 

[AlanC]

^I pulled out my copy to look through it again last night. Some of the clothes are somewhat dated, but it has information in it that the other books don't cover with the same detail. It's worth having.

Originally Posted by Film Noir Buff

Maybe there should be severe penalties attached to failures to justify questions. Could you explain your demerit system to us?

I have no demerit system, well other than putting some people here on ignore. I can't do that to you or I'd miss half the posts on the forum.

 

[TC (Houston)]

Originally Posted by AlanC

^I pulled out my copy to look through it again last night. Some of the clothes are somewhat dated, but it has information in it that the other books don't cover with the same detail. It's worth having.

Thanks, I don't think it matters that the clothes are dated. I'm looking forward to receiving it!

 

[The Louche]

Originally Posted by Parker

No, you'd need to lose the "teeth". The lines need to be straight. Like gingham or shepherd.

Houndstooth:

Gun check:

Absolutely correct.

 

[TC (Houston)]

How about this one?

 

[Film Noir Buff]

Originally Posted by AlanC

^I pulled out my copy to look through it again last night. Some of the clothes are somewhat dated, but it has information in it that the other books don't cover with the same detail. It's worth having. I have no demerit system, well other than putting some people here on ignore. I can't do that to you or I'd miss half the posts on the forum.
Although it's always pleasant to have another fan, I wonder if the same affliction which causes you to deny your site's demerit system isn't also the reason you misinterpret my meanings. Hitherto, I had simply chalked this behavior up to anxiety on your part; that anyone could know more about clothes than yourself. However, in light of your handicap, I will endeavor to be more tolerant.

 

[oshinex]

Originally Posted by TC (Houston)

How about this one?

Looks exactly like Parker's gun club.

 

[I. Gentantithesis]

As a check jacket becomes more refined in yarn, colouration and scale it distances itself from "gun club" or "estate check" and becomes an urban, perchance urbane, office dweller's (not that there's anything wrong with that) subdued odd jacket (not that there's......). Gun checks are neither restrained in colouration nor scale. They're country checks for country pursuits, or, posturing antiquarians. City chappies ensconced within six walls of HVACed air wear "derringer check" in fine-lined merino, or some such, and their exposure to flora, fauna and firearms is oft limited to muggings whilst engaged in canine excrementation expeditions in a "park".

Mr. Buff is apparently the Laird of several estates, no doubt master of all he surveys in his bucolic forays.

TC (Euston): In addition to printed matter, it may behoove you to retain the services of Google & Co. UK in an image survey of different cloth nomenclatures. This should also lead to various cloth merchants' webZite profferings.

You could commence your search with "gun check", !voila!