06-03-11, 01:29 AM
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Slightly off topic, but not a lot off topic, this documentary might make some people feel a bit better.
Patrick Grant is the new owner of Savile Row tailors Norton & Sons and E Tautz. Buying an old established company of tailors is not the same as buying an old car manufacturing company, but I suppose the risks were pretty high.
If PR was a measure of success, then he has done very well so far.
In this series he tours Britain meeting the suppliers to his business, including the weavers of his fabrics (Harris tweed and flannels), sockmakers, shoes, wallet makers et al.
He is very funny, in that odd way the Brits are, with long monologues born of Python and Joyce and vaudeville routines.
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