Crockett + Tubbs ≠ Jeeves + Wooster

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Ran across the following in a New York Times article about the impact of the TV series Miami Vice on men’s fashion — specifically, the rise of the Floppy Suit:

When he orchestrated the look of the original show, Mr. Mann was venturing into stylistic territory already staked out by Italian designers...[like] Giorgio Armani, the man generally credited with introducing the world to the unconstructed suit — that is, without padding, a lining or internal stiffening. This might be as good a time as any to amend the old canard about Mr. Armani being the inventor of the floppy suit. It was long a staple of Neapolitan haberdashery, developed by tailors sent to London by wealthy patrons to apprentice on Savile Row. Being superior craftsmen, the tailors absorbed everything there was to know about British cuts and suit construction. Being Neapolitans, they blithely tossed out the window most of the knowledge they had acquired. It is generally too hot in Naples to dress like Bertie Wooster. [emphasis mine]

Jeeves would doubtless be gratified to know that his efforts have made Mr. Wooster synonymous with conservative Savile Row tailoring.

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[hieronymousmosh.livejournal.com]

Hello all - I just joined *and* I actually have something to post! Gracious!

Wodehouse character or baseball player?

Last weekend I was reading Much Obliged, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse and taking in a baseball game on the radio and I had a small revelation. I was thinking particularly about former New York Mets farmhand Esix Snead, who has a name straight out of a Wodehouse novel...You can imagine the high jinks that ensue when Snead visits the country house of his nemesis Sir Kyle Farnsworth (master of the late-inning meltdown) in an attempt to break off his romantic involvement with the daughter of Lord Preston Wilson.

And there's a quiz! (No cheating, now.)