Reply to: Best type of beige corduroy arm patches?

[BrilloPad]

I'm looking to refurb an old jacket I bought from Oxfam 15 years ago. Should I go for corduroy patches on the elbows or maybe tear the arms off and turn it into a kind of waistcoat?

I didn't get a rate rise and the gas bill arrives soon and a lightbulb blew yesterday.

Thanks,

An IT Contractor on his uppers.

And I thought you were a millionaire?

[Paddy]

I'm looking to refurb an old jacket I bought from Oxfam 15 years ago. Should I go for corduroy patches on the elbows or maybe tear the arms off and turn it into a kind of waistcoat?

I didn't get a rate rise and the gas bill arrives soon and a lightbulb blew yesterday.

Thanks,

An IT Contractor on his uppers.

Are you teaching IT in a Junior School?

http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article....1&in_page_id=7

[TimberWolf]

Top tip: Roll your sleeves up before you pull yourself along the ground using your elbows. Works for me.

[OwlHoot]

I'm looking to refurb an old jacket I bought from Oxfam 15 years ago. Should I go for corduroy patches on the elbows or maybe tear the arms off and turn it into a kind of waistcoat?

I didn't get a rate rise and the gas bill arrives soon and a lightbulb blew yesterday.

Thanks,

An IT Contractor on his uppers.

If you wear patches on the elbows of a corduroy jacket, you also need to smoke a pipe.

HTH

[Mich the Tester]

One of my ex colleagues once bought a car he reckoned was brown.

It was a particularly vile purple....

He's colourblind...

Still can't work out how purple ends up as brown with a red/green defect, but there you go.

Hmmm, I struggle with purple and brown too. It’s weird; no type of colour blindness fits my ‘colour blindness’ but I still have problems distinguishing some colours. Maybe we need a new type of colour blindness, then I could start a victims group and apply for a European subsidy.

[Mich the Tester]

Beige? Isn't that a woman's colour? That's not one of the true colours men understand, such as red, white, black, green, grey, blue, erm, maybe a couple more. Other colours are just lighter or darker shades of these. Is beige the new grey?

I can’t see the difference between dark blue, black and dark green. I think I’m wearing black today. I once bought a second hand car that I thought was black until by girlfriend told me it was navy blue. I’d support any campaign for basic colours as it would make my world a lot clearer.

[TimberWolf]

Beige? Isn't that a woman's colour? That's not one of the true colours men understand, such as red, white, black, green, grey, blue, erm, maybe a couple more. Other colours are just lighter or darker shades of these. Is beige the new grey?

[Sysman]

Everything was beige...

I remember purple too.

And then there was that pair of tie dye T-shirts i had to fish out of the bin every time me mum tried chucking them. Neither of them was beige.

[tay]

I suggest adding some trousers and turning it into a library suit.

or this?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/4..._racegall5.jpg

This was a race between a Pakistani cricketer and a NZ cricketer during a test match lunch break.. Richardson the chap on the right, was mid innings.. got changed into his suit, ran the race... then went back out to bat.
He used to challenge one of the oposition to a running race every match (the opponents always chose the slowest bloke), and he never won once as he is dead slow, but then he decided to make his speed beige suit.. and beat the Pakistani.

He is now a commentator.

[Jog On]

Leather patches, old chap, leather patches....

Corduroy is so 1970s.

What's wrong with 70s?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

This is a great thread, isn't it, not at all dull like one of mine.

[Advocate]

I suggest adding some trousers and turning it into a library suit.

[TimberWolf]

I'm looking to refurb an old jacket I bought from Oxfam 15 years ago. Should I go for corduroy patches on the elbows or maybe tear the arms off and turn it into a kind of waistcoat?

I didn't get a rate rise and the gas bill arrives soon and a lightbulb blew yesterday.

Thanks,

An IT Contractor on his uppers.

All you need to do is find a similar jacket in the shops. Try it on in the fitting room and cut off one arm (ouch). Place the now one-armed jacket back on the shelf acting as if nothing happened. Avoid whistling to feign nonchalance like on the great escape. They will be none the wiser (well maybe they will be a bit later, so try to avoid trying anything on in that shop again). Congratulations, you've pollovered the wool their eyes. More top-tips bought to you courtesy of recession saving expert.

[Bagpuss]

I'm looking to refurb an old jacket I bought from Oxfam 15 years ago. Should I go for corduroy patches on the elbows or maybe tear the arms off and turn it into a kind of waistcoat?

I didn't get a rate rise and the gas bill arrives soon and a lightbulb blew yesterday.

Thanks,

An IT Contractor on his uppers.

I'd get some Gortex ones off Howard Moon

[Jog On]

An IT Contractor on his uppers.

Doesn't seem all that bad - at least you can still afford cocaine