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From the LIFE Archives: Harold Macmillan

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Prime Minister Macmillan goes grouse shooting 1963.

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Very nice also. Thank you.

Suggests that over-built British tailoring wasn't always the norm.
 

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I like the guy in the jeans,

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the girl in the anorak (!)

and Harold's suede shoes.
 

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Remarkable, you choose to focus on the loaders, as opposed to the ones who are going to do the shooting.
 

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I am the 99%. :slayer:
 

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Several points:

1, The PM is not seen anywhere carrying his gun. He is obviously not old and frail here.
He would live another 23 years dying at 92. British Class System, I guess.

2. He is wearing both Plus twos and spats. Something right out of Those Magnificent Men inTheir Flying Machines,
or Monty Python.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Magnificent_Men_in_Their_Flying_Machines.

See. Terry-Thomas' clothes,

3.He's wearing two or three eyelet suede derbies on the train. I have a pair,
but his were nicer, bespoke no doubt.

4. The hatless older gentleman in the Plus Four- Tweed suit chatting with the PM besides the Land Rover is probably his successor, Sir Alec Douglas Home,
formerly the Earl of Home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Douglas-Home
 
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Several points:
1, The PM is not seen anywhere carrying his gun. He is obviously not old and frail here.
He would live another 23 years dying at 92. British Class System, I guess.

2. He is wearing both Plus twos and spats. Something right out of Those Magnificent Men inTheir Flying Machines,
or Monty Python.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Magnificent_Men_in_Their_Flying_Machines.
See: Terry-Thoms' clothes,

3.He's wearing two or three eyelet suede derbies on the train. I have a pair,
but his were nicer, bespoke no doubt.

4. The hatless older gentleman in the Plus Four- Tweed suit chatting with the PM besides the Land Rover is probably his successor,
Sir Alec Douglas Home, (pronounced Hume) formerly the Earl of Home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Douglas-Home
 
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Several points:
1, The PM is not seen anywhere carrying his gun. He is obviously not old and frail here.
He would live another 23 years dying at 92. British Class System, I guess.
(...)


Loaders carry and reload the guns (gentlemen use a pair) like caddies on golf course.
 

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I'm going to be really pernickety here but it is one my pet hates:

You don't refer to the Prime Minister as 'PM [then name]' - the rational is that the Prime Minister HAPPENS to be a particular individual, the point of that is that the PM is supposed to be the equal, but the first, of Members of Parliament; referring to him as 'Prime Minister Cameron / MacMillan' is an Americanism, and particular, a derivative of Presidential styles of government. I'm being anal but it is one of my pet peeves.
 

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I'm going to be really pernickety here but it is one my pet hates:
You don't refer to the Prime Minister as 'PM [then name]' - the rational is that the Prime Minister HAPPENS to be a particular individual, the point of that is that the PM is supposed to be the equal, but the first, of Members of Parliament; referring to him as 'Prime Minister Cameron / MacMillan' is an Americanism, and particular, a derivative of Presidential styles of government. I'm being anal but it is one of my pet peeves.


and here in America the word is perSnickety
 

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