Hertford Uniforms
Moderator: Moderators
-
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 2880
- Joined: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:55 am
- Real Name: Angela Marsh
- Location: Exiled Londoner, now in Staffordshire.
Re: Hertford Uniforms
Funny! I've been checking up Moygashel... I didn't think linen could be called "pure linen" if a cotton or synthetic fibre is blended with the flax? Moygashel seems to be called everywhere "pure linen" with its beauty attributed to being created with the soft water running down from the Mountains of Mourne - doesn't that sound lovely? One reference I found for a "crease resistant finish".
I encountered a post from woman asking for a good home for a sixty-year-old Moygashel linen blouse in an unappealing mustard yellow. Perhaps it was the same dye batch?
Dresses never washed? Frances! I shudder! Did you stitch in those ol' dress shields?
I encountered a post from woman asking for a good home for a sixty-year-old Moygashel linen blouse in an unappealing mustard yellow. Perhaps it was the same dye batch?
Dresses never washed? Frances! I shudder! Did you stitch in those ol' dress shields?
"Baldrick, you wouldn't recognise a cunning plan if it painted itself purple, and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing "Cunning plans are here again.""
-
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 1427
- Joined: Sat Feb 07, 2009 7:56 pm
- Real Name: Frances Grogan (nee Haley)
- Location: Surbiton, Surrey
Re: Hertford Uniforms
I did indeed! BTW Miss Wilson was from the Mountains of Mourne!!
Frances Grogan (Haley) 6's 1956 - 62
'A clean house is a sign of a broken computer.'
'A clean house is a sign of a broken computer.'
- englishangel
- Forum Moderator
- Posts: 6956
- Joined: Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:22 pm
- Real Name: Mary Faulkner (Vincett)
- Location: Amersham, Buckinghamshire
Re: Hertford Uniforms
I think her actual home town was Warrenpoint at the southern end. I seem to remember her mentioning it when there was some trouble there.
"If a man speaks, and there isn't a woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"
-
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 1612
- Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:53 pm
- Real Name: michael scuffil
- Location: germany
Re: Hertford Uniforms
Really? There are a few websites about Moygashel (the fabric), and the implication throughout is that it's pure linen. Wikipedia (for what it's worth) says that the village name is stressed on the second syllable (as you'd expect) and the fabric on the first.midget wrote:Were the dresses definitely linen? I ask because the fabric generally known as Moygashel ( MoeGASHel, not MoygashEL was a viscose rayon, with mixture of eithe cotton or linen, and treated with an anti-crease finish.
In my experience, pure linen is not comfortable on the skin. I have some inherited linen sheets, but those made of a linen/cotton mixture (called "union") are much nicer. I also have a pure linen jacket: the original crumpled look.
Th.B. 27 1955-63
-
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 3186
- Joined: Tue Nov 01, 2005 3:49 pm
- Real Name: Margaret O`Riordan
- Location: Barnstaple Devon
Re: Hertford Uniforms
When I first started work in textiles in 1955, Moygashel was almost e generic term for fabric of a certain construction, rather as Biro and Hoover were in their respective fields. Many manufacturers were still working to the wartime (mainly very good) fabric constructions, issued under the Utility scheme.
Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit a social science.
-
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 2880
- Joined: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:55 am
- Real Name: Angela Marsh
- Location: Exiled Londoner, now in Staffordshire.
Re: Hertford Uniforms
Smashing! Rock that look, Michael!michael scuffil wrote: I also have a pure linen jacket: the original crumpled look.
"Baldrick, you wouldn't recognise a cunning plan if it painted itself purple, and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing "Cunning plans are here again.""
-
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 3285
- Joined: Mon Dec 26, 2005 10:44 pm
- Real Name: Katharine Dobson
- Location: Gwynedd
Re: Hertford Uniforms
Angela - you should see Michael in deerstalker and cape - a sight for sore eyes!
Katharine Dobson (Hills) 6.14, 1959 - 1965
-
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 1612
- Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:53 pm
- Real Name: michael scuffil
- Location: germany
Re: Hertford Uniforms
Katharine is fantasizing. She's never seen me wearing a deerstalker (though I do have one somewhere). My hat (hand-made in Cologne by one of the city's two surviving craft hatters, and yes, he's mad) has a wide brim all the way round.Katharine wrote:Angela - you should see Michael in deerstalker and cape - a sight for sore eyes!
Th.B. 27 1955-63
-
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 3285
- Joined: Mon Dec 26, 2005 10:44 pm
- Real Name: Katharine Dobson
- Location: Gwynedd
Re: Hertford Uniforms
You are, of course, quite right Michael! I can see that hat now in my mind's eye!
Katharine Dobson (Hills) 6.14, 1959 - 1965
-
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 2880
- Joined: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:55 am
- Real Name: Angela Marsh
- Location: Exiled Londoner, now in Staffordshire.
Re: Hertford Uniforms
Mustn't Michael be just so.... stylish! Ooh, what else?
Do you have a panama hat as well, Michael? My dread of the scruffy Hertford panama doesn't extend to elegant menswear!
Do you have a panama hat as well, Michael? My dread of the scruffy Hertford panama doesn't extend to elegant menswear!
"Baldrick, you wouldn't recognise a cunning plan if it painted itself purple, and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing "Cunning plans are here again.""
-
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 1612
- Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:53 pm
- Real Name: michael scuffil
- Location: germany
Re: Hertford Uniforms
The same hatter used to make me panamas, but now he's introduced me to a different fibre, grown in the Philippines, called parabuntal. It looks like panama, but it's softer and, because it's less brittle, much longer lasting. My black straw hat is panama, though.
Th.B. 27 1955-63
-
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 2880
- Joined: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:55 am
- Real Name: Angela Marsh
- Location: Exiled Londoner, now in Staffordshire.
Re: Hertford Uniforms
Just had a feeling that that might be your style...
I wish men dressed up a bit more these days! Sorry, off-topic! But I often seek out an episode of Poirot to admire the immaculate Captain Hastings!
I wish men dressed up a bit more these days! Sorry, off-topic! But I often seek out an episode of Poirot to admire the immaculate Captain Hastings!
"Baldrick, you wouldn't recognise a cunning plan if it painted itself purple, and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing "Cunning plans are here again.""
-
- Deputy Grecian
- Posts: 366
- Joined: Sat May 02, 2009 9:06 pm
- Real Name: Lynn Ammerer-Ford
- Location: Austria
Re: Hertford Uniforms
Angela I agree completely - I've seen a couple of elegantly dressed men recently and felt that we could do with more of this.
By the way - I have a CH hat in my possession and don't know what it is. Neither do I know how I acquired it and only knew when my mother cleared out the attic a couple of years ago and passed it on to me. No-one wore hats anymore by the time I started in 1970 (apart from the dear old Ashborne hats). It is round and, like the blazers, a dark blue with gold braiding round the edges. The CH badge is on the front.
By the way - I have a CH hat in my possession and don't know what it is. Neither do I know how I acquired it and only knew when my mother cleared out the attic a couple of years ago and passed it on to me. No-one wore hats anymore by the time I started in 1970 (apart from the dear old Ashborne hats). It is round and, like the blazers, a dark blue with gold braiding round the edges. The CH badge is on the front.
Re: Hertford Uniforms
As a mere male, I hesitate to offer an opinion - but, what the H**** here goes! From your description it is almost certainly a "chapel hat.By the way - I have a CH hat in my possession and don't know what it is. Neither do I know how I acquired it and only knew when my mother cleared out the attic a couple of years ago and passed it on to me. No-one wore hats anymore by the time I started in 1970 (apart from the dear old Ashborne hats). It is round and, like the blazers, a dark blue with gold braiding round the edges. The CH badge is on the front.
-
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 3285
- Joined: Mon Dec 26, 2005 10:44 pm
- Real Name: Katharine Dobson
- Location: Gwynedd
Re: Hertford Uniforms
David - please a chapel cap, never called a hat in my time!
Katharine Dobson (Hills) 6.14, 1959 - 1965