Experience with this brand?

[London Cabbie]

What’s a tootle?

Centre Half (scarf)

 

[Smithy]

Thanks Cabbie, it's actually not a Tootal but it's the closest I've found in a modern scarf to an actual wartime one. I love the thing. I have a great interest in Vic France of the 4th FG and when I wear it with an A-2 it's my little nod to Vic and his memory.

 

[ausreenactor]

Oh my ... now you’ve done it ... you’ve poked the bee hive.
just kidding.
A few guys have them and like them a lot. It’s not an ELC or GW but a lesser level repro that’s nicely made of goatskin but not historically accurate . Here’s a photo of mine .
Full disclosure here .. I’m selling it not because I don’t like it , but I just have too
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That hide is AWESOME.. If that was the for sale pic it should have sold by now?

 

[ausreenactor]

Centre Half (scarf)

Rhyming slang.. Love it. Dying art these days. My Dad is/was a fan.

 

[B-Man2]

That hide is AWESOME.. If that was the for sale pic it should have sold by now?

Thanks Couchy
It was the sale pic but no takers.

 

[B-Man2]

Thanks Cabbie, it's actually not a Tootal but it's the closest I've found in a modern scarf to an actual wartime one. I love the thing. I have a great interest in Vic France of the 4th FG and when I wear it with an A-2 it's my little nod to Vic and his memory.

Tim
If it’s ok to ask .. where did you purchase that scarf ... it is cool looking.

 

[ausreenactor]

Could use the scarf for British pilot or German soldier!

 

[Smithy]

Tim
If it’s ok to ask .. where did you purchase that scarf ... it is cool looking.

I actually got it on Amazon UK. The problem with nearly every single modern silk scarf is that they are completely different in terms of how they are made and heft of fabric compared to WWII examples. This scarf is, along with ones that John Comfort (a UK tie maker who made scarves to the same methods and materials they did during the war) used to make are the only modern scarves even remotely like the scarves during the war. If you want a silk scarf with the same heft of material and that will tie and sit like a scarf from the 1940s get one of these. They are exactly like some originals I have handled.

Sadly though they appear to be unavailable...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soprano-Navy-White-Polka-Backing/dp/B00N9YX2XQ?ref=pf_vv_at_pdctrvw_dp

 

[B-Man2]

Tim
Thanks for the info .., that is a nice looking scarf . Maybe it will re appear ..

 

[Smithy]

Tim
Thanks for the info .., that is a nice looking scarf . Maybe it will re appear ..

If they do, get one Burt, they really are the only modern scarves I have seen which look and feel like scarves used in the RAF during the war.

 

[Bombing IP]

If you have a butchers hook Bert you should be able to pick one of the scarfs for a bullseye it will be nice for when its George & Zippy . That's all according you have the sausage and mash

Jeff

 

[Bombing IP]

Hi Burt here is something similar .

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Jeff

 

[B-Man2]

If you have a butchers hook Bert you should be able to pick one of the scarfs for a bullseye it will be nice for when its George & Zippy . That's all according you have the sausage and mash

Jeff

Hahaha Jeff you’re killin me .
I’ve got to go to google translator to even try to figure out what you’re telling me.
I thought you were from NY... as a Philly guy I had more of a chance figuring out the New York side of this than the Brit version

 

[London Cabbie]

If you have a butchers hook Bert you should be able to pick one of the scarfs for a bullseye it will be nice for when its George & Zippy . That's all according you have the sausage and mash

Jeff

Jeff Sir
Your patter is mustard
are you a Cabbie...?

 

[Bombing IP]

No London cabbie adam and eve it I am from west London moved to the states in 1988 , ow yer doing me old China .I am doin right nice meself got paid a monkey today for 8hrs work . I reckon a ruby murray is in the forecast for me with the cows and kisses and afterwards we will both ave a raspberry tart after a ball of chalk . Then up the apples and pears and ave a few custard cremes .Too tired to mess with the Alan Wickers got an early start in the mornin other wise there will be Barney Rubble with the Gaffer .

Jeff

 

[B-Man2]

What’d he say??

 

[Saint-ex]

As English is not my native language, I can assure you that I don't understand anything.

 

[B-Man2]

Well said...

 

[London Cabbie]

For educational purposes you have cleverly included the full rhyming couplets...

 

[London Cabbie]

Oh my ... now you’ve done it ... you’ve poked the bee hive.
just kidding.
A few guys have them and like them a lot. It’s not an ELC or GW but a lesser level repro that’s nicely made of goatskin but not historically accurate . Here’s a photo of mine .
Full disclosure here .. I’m selling it not because I don’t like it , but I just have too
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Sir, is this their standard Russet colour...?