burgundyben
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At the tender age of 44 I have bright pink trousers, red cords, yellow cords, and even a pair of port/stbd trousers I had made.
I'm up there with Michael Portillo.
I'm up there with Michael Portillo.
Red trousers?
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Hadenough
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I bet you wear them while sculling your dinghy, standing up with no buoyancy aid other than your baggy pouch, going ashore to the boozer after dark, leaving your (gaffer, smack, lugger, fill in the blanks) at anchor with a 0.0005 lumen Tilly lamp hanging.
burgundyben
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Aksherly....Couldn't be further from correct, I've just sold after 13 years, a Fairey Huntsman, 500hp, very noisy, 40 knots, never spent a night onboard on the hook, always on a pontoon and usually plugged in.
Faster from Cowes to Southampton than the Red Jet.
As a chum with a plastic boat said 'kinell that's quick for a dead tree' when he couldn't catch me.
Hadenough
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I take it then that as you have sold the Fairey you can now move on from brown trousers :encouragement:
burgundyben
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Trying to find another Fairey, bigger one, perhaps not as quick.
jerrytug
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A Fairey? Is that the Michael Portillo connection ?
sideshowbob
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I'm surprised there is room!
Romeo
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Canadian police know how to deal with folk who dare to wear:
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Hydrozoan
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Instead of having port/stbd trousers specially made, you could have bought a pair of red and a pair of green. Your tailor could then have adapted them into two pairs, ready for any change in the direction of buoyage.
jimmyk
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I'm hoping I will never be old enough to wear red trousers. I want to go out in a blaze of glory when I'm about 99
DownWest
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Dunno about Portillo, but you might be mistaken for an antiques dealer.
One assumes that the trousers (& smocks) were made from tan sailcloth. Our local fishermans co-op has good ones at €40. Slight leeway to modernity, as they have a bit of elastication each side.
burgundyben
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That's exactly what we did.
P/S troosers are available in the US but the wrong way round for Cowes High Street.
z1ppy
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i am sure the forum filter will not allow me to post the link but if you google stupid red trousers.com you will see what i mean..
i do need to see a picture of the port and starboard trousers tho Ben.
i do need to see a picture of the port and starboard trousers tho Ben.
Roberto
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I often read here about red trousers, may I ask where this... reputation comes from in the UK?
Is it simply a story of "you do not wear red trousers", like in other places might be "you do not wear white socks with black shoes" ?
Is it simply a story of "you do not wear red trousers", like in other places might be "you do not wear white socks with black shoes" ?
Hydrozoan
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I'm not entirely sure, but the most succinct explanation I've seen is this: "In the popular imagination, red trouser-wearing sits at a Venn diagram intersection between hipsters and the upper classes."
(There's more at the same place: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-23530064.)
Roberto
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I'm not entirely sure, but the most succinct explanation I've seen is this: "In the popular imagination, red trouser-wearing sits at a Venn diagram intersection between hipsters and the upper classes."
thank you Hydrozoan
reading the article, it looks like something people have rather strong opinions about.
This side of the channel, pinkish trousers (rather than red) sometimes imply "look at he who wants to show all the others he sometimes somewhere put his foot on a sailboat", a bit like "Parisians taking the tube to the boat show with their oilies on".
alant
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thank you Hydrozoan
reading the article, it looks like something people have rather strong opinions about.
This side of the channel, pinkish trousers (rather than red) sometimes imply "look at he who wants to show all the others he sometimes somewhere put his foot on a sailboat", a bit like "Parisians taking the tube to the boat show with their oilies on".
I always thought pink/red tousers, were RA officers in mufti.
Tidewaiter2
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I'm not entirely sure, but the most succinct explanation I've seen is this: "In the popular imagination, red trouser-wearing sits at a Venn diagram intersection between hipsters and the upper classes."
:encouragement:Absolutely, Owld Chep, Wun would not dream of going ashore at Cowes without the wight kit;
tatty leather decks, wed trizers, weefer or pea jacket, club tie, well worn and creased(just out of forepeak locker)white or blue formal shirt(if going to the Squadwon or Island), large country check shirt if one of the other clubs, westuwant, or the Anchow--
and of course, the Breton, with Club, Association, or Service kep badge.
These days, pipe clenched in teeth, cold or hot, tends to be frowned on, perhaps an e-pipe instead???
If Wun tends towards Davies rather than Cawwuthers, then a grey Norfolk Jecket is just the ticket-
It's an age thing, I think- I used to wear a Norfolk Jecket, grey, or a Blazer for posh when younger, but now have two Weefers, two pairs of wed Cuwwys, three Bretons AND a Prinz Heinrich*!
* ( Our 2013 Hun Fwiesian trip, dontcha know, got to keep Davies soundings up to date)
It's the baldness, the cold raindrops(no, a Musto/baseball cap does not keep you warm at sea- only good for Solent day sails-wrong sport- an Alaska or Canadian trapper or hunters ear flapped cap more useful !).
Also, the older circulation, the skinnier limbs, the aching joints from previous injuries and wear & tear.......etc, etc.......:ambivalence:
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Tidewaiter2
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thank you Hydrozoan
reading the article, it looks like something people have rather strong opinions about.
This side of the channel, pinkish trousers (rather than red) sometimes imply "look at he who wants to show all the others he sometimes somewhere put his foot on a sailboat", a bit like "Parisians taking the tube to the boat show with their oilies on".
Not to mention fenders fore & aft on their cars for the Parisian 'joggle' parking method.
Must say I do envy the Normans and Bretons their pre faded pinks- by the time a pair of Currys gets to that shade, the fabric goes- usually at the knees, and you've got shorts
ericvdborn
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I thought that wearing red trousers was a privilege only for those that have crossed the Atlantic in a boat.
