Where to buy Ascots?

[Guest]

Further to David Saxby's line, he claims to have considerable stocks of vintage silks that are/can be employed in the cravats and waistcoats he makes.

- Couch

[Guest]

I believe that Saxby took over Cazenove's 'Bertie Wooster' in Fulham Road just after its closure was announced in the press and that Wooster is still going for good vintage and second hand gear. as well as new. I think that he is also a cabaret singer and a founder of the Chap magazine.
NJS

[Guest]

Yes, I will second Marinella for discrete, masculine ascots.

Their designs and solid heft of their silks help take a good part of the initial self consciousness out of wearing ascots.

[Guest]

I believe that Saxby took over Cazenove's 'Bertie Wooster' in Fulham Road just after its closure was announced in the press and that Wooster is still going for good vintage and second hand gear. as well as new. I think that he is also a cabaret singer and a founder of the Chap magazine.
NJS

I can confirm this as of last summer. Saxby now has two resale shops, Old Hat and Bertie Wooster, as well as his eponymous storefront next to Old Hat (for newly made waistcoats and cravats) and was as of last summer making new, affordable RTW shooting coats, hacking jackets, corduroy and Bedford cord trousers, and a few other items, using some facilities and staff from the defunct firm Lambourne. He claims to have based the designs on old patterns including Tailor and Cutter patterns from the '20s and '30s. These new items were indeed offered from the Bertie Wooster site. If the line does well, I don't know whether he plans to expand distribution or not. He said he was still tinkering with the trouser cut when I was there.

He is definitely the agony columnist for The Chap, but I had no idea he was a cabaret singer.

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Lambourne is defunct[/i}?

Yet another link with a happy childhood disappears.

[Guest]

Lambourne is defunct[/i}?

That's too bad. Their stuff -- which I only knew through STP -- was excellent quality and durable.

RJ

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Lambourne is defunct?

Yet another link with a happy childhood disappears.

RWS

(Again, forgot to sign a posting in this "Anonymous" section.)

[Guest]

Lambourne is defunct?

So David said. I wasn't able to find definitive news on this, but I did turn up a notice in the Internet Bankruptcy Library's "Troubled Company Reporter" for May 2, 2007:

LAMBOURNE CLOTHING: Creditors' Meeting Slated for May 16
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Creditors of Lambourne Clothing International Ltd. will meet at
11:00 a.m. on May 16 at:

B & C Associates
Trafalgar House
Grenville Place
Mill Hill
London
NW7 3SA
England

Creditors who want to vote must submit before the meeting their
proxy forms together with particulars of their claims or of any
security at the said address.

A list of names and addresses of the company's creditors will be
available for inspection free of charge on May 14.

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I take it some assets must have been available in order for David to engage some of the Ipswich factory space and staff to work on his line. I don't know whether there's any likelihood of a reorganized Lambourne emerging or not. David did not seem to anticipate it.

I was just wearing a pair of Lambourne cords yesterday--quite well made. If you like their products, perhaps you should not wait to acquire items in your size before STP and other liquidators run through their remaining stock. Or visit David in London.

- Couch