The SF/AAAC/FNB trainwreck thread

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Saw this and I actually thought “wonder if that was Artisan Fan?”
 
A big sound daddy. Love people who are into the top sounds and are prepared to go all the way to get it. The house looks terrible with those speakers, but just imagine the sound. 🤩
 
Unsurprisingly, he seems to have a commercial agreement with Harrisons.

www.marketscreener.com

AskOkey, Inc. and Harrisons of Edinburgh launch Retail Partnership

- Starting 02 July 2023, retail customers can order Harrisons fabrics directly from AskOkey. The association between the two firms joins heritage with innovation and will enable individual buyers...
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As with every other online MTM/MTO outfit, he probably uses a factory somewhere in Southern Italy, Mainland China, Taiwan/Hong Kong or Czech Republic.
 
In North America, Isles Textiles is the distributor for Lesser. They can make it difficult to order beyond the books they do stock.
 
Thruth said:
In North America, Isles Textiles is the distributor for Lesser. They can make it difficult to order beyond the books they do stock.
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There was a pretty big upheaval at Lesser probably, oh 6 years ago maybe? when Harrisons revamped the whole line and web portal etc.. It was honestly pretty hard to keep track of what they were actually weaving anymore. I have some Frontier that I think isn't made anymore, but I'm not sure.
 
doghouse said:
There was a pretty big upheaval at Lesser probably, oh 6 years ago maybe? when Harrisons revamped the whole line and web portal etc.. It was honestly pretty hard to keep track of what they were actually weaving anymore. I have some Frontier that I think isn't made anymore, but I'm not sure.
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that was 2010ish.

here is what Isles has listed, which looks to be the full Harrisons range plus the 8/9.

  • Lumbs Golden Bale
  • Super 120s & Cashmere
  • Flannels (Carlo Barbara)
  • 8/9 oz.
  • 10 oz.
  • 11/12 oz.
  • 13 oz.
  • 16 oz
My tailor says Isles sucks to deal with and he is one of only a handful or two of bespoke tailors in the country. But he can get Lesser.
 
Thruth said:
that was 2010ish.

here is what Isles has listed, which looks to be the full Harrisons range plus the 8/9.

  • Lumbs Golden Bale
  • Super 120s & Cashmere
  • Flannels (Carlo Barbara)
  • 8/9 oz.
  • 10 oz.
  • 11/12 oz.
  • 13 oz.
  • 16 oz
My tailor says Isles sucks to deal with and he is one of only a handful or two of bespoke tailors in the country. But he can get Lesser.
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Shattuck gets Lesser from Isles too. I but a bunch of lengths back in the day too. Still have a few upstairs.
 
"In many ways H. Lesser cloth is the fabric equivalent of the Triumph of Death as painted by Brueghel the Elder which in spite of the macabre subject matter is both rich and vibrant. Not the decrepit, wormy death of the mausoleum but the crippling fear of the unknown which only the most self assured can vanquish. This is corporate raider death and the must of money so old it’s brittle. Wearing H. Lesser, one has the imperturbability of having become one with death without having succumbed to its whispers. Wearing H. Lesser cloth, you will never make friends with the living, you will never woo the maiden (except as Hans Baldung-Grien depicts it), but the Bull and the Bear will watch in listless awe at the man returned victorious from the market’s moral void."
 
The Ernesto said:
"In many ways H. Lesser cloth is the fabric equivalent of the Triumph of Death as painted by Brueghel the Elder which in spite of the macabre subject matter is both rich and vibrant. Not the decrepit, wormy death of the mausoleum but the crippling fear of the unknown which only the most self assured can vanquish. This is corporate raider death and the must of money so old it’s brittle. Wearing H. Lesser, one has the imperturbability of having become one with death without having succumbed to its whispers. Wearing H. Lesser cloth, you will never make friends with the living, you will never woo the maiden (except as Hans Baldung-Grien depicts it), but the Bull and the Bear will watch in listless awe at the man returned victorious from the market’s moral void."
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So not very trendy then, Ernesto?
 
The Ernesto said:
"In many ways H. Lesser cloth is the fabric equivalent of the Triumph of Death as painted by Brueghel the Elder which in spite of the macabre subject matter is both rich and vibrant. Not the decrepit, wormy death of the mausoleum but the crippling fear of the unknown which only the most self assured can vanquish. This is corporate raider death and the must of money so old it’s brittle. Wearing H. Lesser, one has the imperturbability of having become one with death without having succumbed to its whispers. Wearing H. Lesser cloth, you will never make friends with the living, you will never woo the maiden (except as Hans Baldung-Grien depicts it), but the Bull and the Bear will watch in listless awe at the man returned victorious from the market’s moral void."
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Some of us long termers know what you're doing. You're doing the updated FNB version. ;)

Big daddy Lessers is for Collins Street doctors etc. Few are qualified to wear it (hear that FNB). It comes at a big premium and not many clients from my tailor wear it. Lessers is also for top silks that have open fire places in their high rise Collins Street red
wood paneled office. I hear that these guys are `proper daddies', and they only wear Lessers.
 
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The Shooman said:
Some of us long termers know what you're doing. You're doing the updated FNB version. ;)

Big daddy Lessers is for Collins Street doctors etc. Few are qualified to wear it (hear that FNB). It comes at a big premium and not many clients from my tailor wear it. Lessers is also for top silks that have open fire places in their high rise Collins Street red
wood paneled office. I hear that these guys are `proper daddies', and they only wear Lessers.
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You are a clown.
Your tailor is a nobody.
His clients are irrelevant.
Lesser does not come at a big premium.
What “you hear” is made up nonsense.

Stick to being a shoo big daddy and stop making shit up about the stuff you don’t know shit about.
 
The Shooman said:
Some of us long termers know what you're doing. You're doing the updated FNB version. ;)

Big daddy Lessers is for Collins Street doctors etc. Few are qualified to wear it (hear that FNB). It comes at a big premium and not many clients from my tailor wear it. Lessers is also for top silks that have open fire places in their high rise Collins Street red
wood paneled office. I hear that these guys are `proper daddies', and they only wear Lessers.
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Did somebody mention FNB?
"I have always been fascinated with H. Lesser fabrics because they evoke a world that is now gone but the memory of which still excites me. A world before designer labels, a world of diplomacy, and a world before the late 1960s made the suit choices of men forever influenced by women and sexuality. H. Lesser represents power among and over a world of men. This fabric was never designed to be fawned over by women, nor anyone for that matter. It was designed to tell the entire world that you have more intelligence, wealth, style and social clout than it does; you are superior and fearless."


 
^^^

I wonder if some people really think like that. Maybe l am just not advanced enough. Maybe FNB talks about the world of the `Lesser and Sons daddy'.
 
The Shooman said:
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I wonder if some people really think like that. Maybe l am just not advanced enough. Maybe FNB talks about the world of the `Lesser and Sons daddy'.
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At the end of the day isn't it just quality rather than labels? This is not to say, of course, that labels that make claims cannot be speaking truthfully.
 
Lesser is amazing fabric, but very pricey in Australia. If l was a suit wearer i'd aspire to be a Lesser & Sons daddy and wear it everyday, but l miss out by default. Being a sportscoat wearer, most Lesser fabrics bypass me. Wearing Lesser trousers and blazer today, head to toe in big daddy Lesser. Not many wear it in Oz, so maybe it is like FNB said...gotta have pedigree and be a big daddy to do it.

Grayson got me interested in Lessers 20 years ago. Grayson was the original BIG daddy.
 
The Shooman said:
Not many wear it in Oz, so maybe it is like FNB said...gotta have pedigree and be a big daddy to do it.
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Or maybe just because Lesser offers mostly suiting fabrics than lean on the heavier side, for a country that for the most part has subtropical/mild weather conditions across its main business cities (I guess Melbourne would be an exception), and where the formal professional dress code is more relaxed when compared to cities like London, New York or Tokyo, where these fabrics are more often seen?
 
Lots of guys like the light suiting fabrics in the 8 oz range etc. I am highly unusual and the only one who orders the 17 - 21 oz fabrics etc, and my winter coats have an extra heavy canvass inside. Some of my fabrics go to 35 oz.
 
The Shooman said:
Lots of guys like the light suiting fabrics in the 8 oz range etc.
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I had a suit cut by John Kent (the collar gap suit I posted elsewhere) from the 8/9oz range for my business trips to LatAm (Brazil and Mexico mostly). Found it not cool enough for the tropical weather, and creasing too much. Ended up moving to other, looser weave fabrics instead.

I also own a number of mid season suits and a couple heavier ones cut from Lesser fabric, and they are great for London weather. And they drape like nobody’s business.
 
The Shooman said:
Does anyone know what's going on with these two blokes?

1). Our old mate Okey had only 1,500 subscribers not long ago, he languished on that figure for years; now he suddenly is over 150,000. Is he buying subscribers?

2). What about our other mate Ash. Dragged his feet on 3k subscribers, but suddenly has 56K.

anyone know how it works? Things don't make any sense.
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5 months later our mate goes from 150 K subscribers to 206 K.


He had an episode of wide and slim trousers recently, l enjoyed it.
 
The Shooman said:
No-one, but the point is, how is he doing it given that his channel is far from mainstream. His videos are very long and shouldn't be getting the subscriptions and views, yet somehow they are. What levers is he pulling to get that kind of result?
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Most of these #menswear big daddy influencers look like total incels. Like this guy. But somehow he’s landed a total babe for a wife:

 
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