In Praise of Cardigans

[Drago]

Pick your role model:
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I guess McQueen wins hands down, although Boris Johnson and Morten Harket run him a close second here.

 

[simongt]

This talk of grimy hats

As with the late Fred Dibnah. His cap was almost permanently on his head, only ever saw him take it off when he was in a religous building.
With his passion for traditional engineering, said cap was subject to much buildup of grease, oils etc. over years of use and folk would enquire what the flashpoint of his cap was - !

 

[Dogtrousers]

As with the late Fred Dibnah. His cap was almost permanently on his head, only ever saw him take it off when he was in a religous building.
With his passion for traditional engineering, said cap was subject to much buildup of grease, oils etc. over years of use and folk would enquire what the flashpoint of his cap was - !

The cricketer Jack Russell was famous for having a hat that had been mended so much it was more mend than hat. A bit like Trigger's broom.

 

[Accy cyclist]

On about David Bowie, how about Bing Crosby's Slazenger 'Heritage' cardigan in that certain video from 1979.

https://www.retrotogo.com/2010/11/slazenger-heritage-1970s-bing-crosby-lambswool-cardigan.html



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpXMy5GalI

 

[raleighnut]

What about the 'King Of Cardigans' Val Doonican

 

[FrankCrank]

As with the late Fred Dibnah. His cap was almost permanently on his head, only ever saw him take it off when he was in a religous building.
With his passion for traditional engineering, said cap was subject to much buildup of grease, oils etc. over years of use and folk would enquire what the flashpoint of his cap was - !

Love watching Fred and all the great engineering series he did. He could walk into a cathedral and explain in great detail exactly how and in what order the construction was carried out, despite having limited formal education.

In one episode, he told a tale of them doing some steam engine/boiler repairs at a local factory, in the early hours of the morning, outside normal work hours. They had to start up the machines briefly to test that all was OK, and soon after some workers started arriving at the factory gate, a few hours too early. Their lives were governed by the sound of the factory grinding into life of a morning, and that was their alarm clock.
Both funny and sad really.

 

[stephec]

On about David Bowie, how about Bing Crosby's Slazenger 'Heritage' cardigan in that certain video from 1979.

https://www.retrotogo.com/2010/11/slazenger-heritage-1970s-bing-crosby-lambswool-cardigan.html



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpXMy5GalI

Sports Direct, £4.99.

 

[MichaelW2]

I think the Cardigan most deserving of praise is James Thomas Brudenell, Seventh Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868).

After joining the Army in 1824, aged 27, he rose quickly and was appointed a Lieutenant-Colonel of the 11th Hussars in 1836. The so-called 'Black Bottle' affair in May 1840, when he ordered under arrest one of his officers for placing bottled wine on the mess table rather than having it decanted, became a cause celebre.

He followed it up by challenging to a duel and wounding another officer who had written critically on the affair to the newspapers. Cardigan was tried for attempted murder before the House of Lords only to be acquitted on a technicality. In the years that followed Cardigan was able to escape the same degree of public scrutiny and was promoted major-general on 20 June 1854, but the events of the Crimean War (1854-1856) were dramatically to restore him to the headlines.

I think he also played Bass.

Inventor of the sandwich to boot.
Those were the days, when a young aristocrat in possession of a large fortune could buy himself a place at Cambridge, a seat in the House of Commons, a series of army commisoned ranks and a place in history for a monumental cock up.

 

[a.twiddler]

Inventor of the sandwich to boot.
Those were the days, when a young aristocrat in possession of a large fortune could buy himself a place at Cambridge, a seat in the House of Commons, a series of army commisoned ranks and a place in history for a monumental cock up.

Was that not the Earl of Sandwich?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Was that not the Earl of Sandwich?

No, he invented the cardigan.

 

[matticus]

Was that not the Earl of Sandwich?

I was expecting the massive QI siren to go off if I said that.

So I didn't.

 

[Drago]

No, he invented the cardigan.

So what did the Earl of Cockermouth invent?

 

[tyred]

On about David Bowie, how about Bing Crosby's Slazenger 'Heritage' cardigan in that certain video from 1979.

https://www.retrotogo.com/2010/11/slazenger-heritage-1970s-bing-crosby-lambswool-cardigan.html



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpXMy5GalI

He only bought that because it matched the colour of his rubber bum pump.

 

[stephec]

He only bought that because it matched the colour of his rubber bum pump.

Rubber bum pump? 😂

 

[Accy cyclist]

Sports Direct, £4.99.

Maybe a viscose one made in China or Vietnam, but not for a 100 percent lambswool one like the one in the picture. Yes, Sports Direct sell Slazenger, but it's like their Karrimor stuff, supposedly the same stuff as when Karrimor made quality stuff when based in Accrington, but now probably made in the far east, out of inferior materials. The Bing Crosby one is Slazenger Heritage which will be like the original Slazenger, not just a bought name then stuck on cheap tat! 🧐