[spandit]

Where is it written that a gentleman in the countryside must wear yellow cords, a Tattershall check shirt, tweed jacket (with a Barbour over the top if it's raining hard)?

Are Hunters now infra dig? Should I buy Le Chameau instead? A friend of mine has some wellies from them that cost £300, or would one get more "rispeck" in Dunlops?

I've already got a brace of spaniels and am saving up for a Range Rover but can't possibly not look the part when surveying my estate

Just need to buy somewhere now...

[Bodger]

The trouble with a Barbour is that the rain comes straight off it and soaks ones trousers and one wetting ones breeks, doesn't suit ones social position and of course, ones Nanny would also get in horrid tizz if one did.

[Brijjy]

Love that Over The Gate. My country uniform of choice is battered Tesco jeans, thermal t shirt, fleece jumper that is more shavings, hay, dog and horse hair than it is fleece and because I don't have to go out anywhere today, I'm not wearing a bra! However it's too cold to go commando. My wellies are super chunky Heveas that look more like platforms. I did once have a pair of Hunter wellies but they lasted for about 3 months and then they split.

[Tala Orchard]

One buys ones uniform for Oxfam these days as one does not want to dress like one of those Yuppie types or the neuvo riche. Buying from Oxfam shows we are intouch with the little people and you can  get designer labels as you know the Duches of Kent uses Oxfam.....so if it good enough for Royalty then One must follow suite.

tala

[Alistair]

My man sorts my clothes for me, I believe he had my Barbour jacket professionally 'weathered' by one of those little village men to give it that worn in look before he put it out for me, I fully agree one has to look the part when surveying ones estate incognito, I only wear geives and hawkes suits as a rule

[john and helen]

I think one has to stay  within one's class 
The country gent and his good lady with the mansion , should don the latest in tweeds and check shirts ,

The trusty game keeper should also don the appropriate attire when mixing with his employer,

whilst researching the trusty smallholder, many things game to fruition... 1st the country gent would spend most of his day sipping from the hip flask, where the small holder would be on intravenous drip of cider and home brew

the country gent would transport himself around in the latest range rover, where as the small holder would stagger around with a hang over.... one would be quids in, the other would be quads broke...

the country gent would be up to his knees in fine leather, whereas the small holder would knee deep in....... 

so!!!! ..top shops for the Small holder wardrobe... Primart, any charity shop, and last but not least.. any clothe bank without a lock on it .... 

[Foobar]

Hunter's are out, as they are no longer made in Scotland.
Tattershall's are in, IMHO, as they are jolly soft and warm, and cheap.  The rest of ones attire is made up of random stuff, often with the rips held together with gaffer tape.


Did anyone see Prince Charles's jacket on countryfile the other week - well worn, and patched.  I though that was a very good example to set .

[thenovice]

Has to be a waxed jacket for me (not a barbour), puts up with loads of abuse, and wont tear easily. Nothing wrong with a checked shirt, but my budget only stretches to dickies. 

[southernskye]

Up here one goes Harris Tweed or one does not go at all !

[spandit]

Up here one goes Harris Tweed or one does not go at all !

But not new... has to be third generation and looking like it was dug up and washed in a peat bog...

[OhLaLa]

Oh poor spandit, you must have been too busy organising the Pheasant shoot to see Prince Charles on Countyfile. These days one wears a terribly expensive jacket that has TOTALLY worn out - so chic!

[lachlanandmarcus]

Raspberry cords all the rage here...

[goosepimple]

I've got a co-op bag in each welly because they're both leaking, I'll upgrade them to M&S bags when I next shop there.  Hope to buy a new pair after the dry summer.    I have an old fleece hat of my 11 year old daughters which is glued to my head inside and out, I love it.
 
Bag Lady is in, I tell ya.

[MikeM]

never got on with huntes, too tight in the calf for me, my wellies are steel toecapped heavy duty type. I do have a barbour "drizabone" tho, it was shopsoiled and £40 at a country fair, too cheap to turn down. I don't wear it all that often, but it's fantastic when you have to let the chooks out in the pouring rain at 7 in the morning.

[bigchicken]

Spandit have you been looking at some old pjcs of me when I was a huntin fishin shootin gent