Borat's Haberdasher Past

[acidboy]

I also posted this in AAAC:

After much time on my hands and some sleuthing, I found out some interesting facts about Sascha Cohen Baron's past:

From Wiki:

Baron Cohen was born in Hammersmith, London, England to an Orthodox Jewish family.He is the second of three sons of Gerald Baron Cohen and Daniella Weiser; his father owns a menswear shop in Piccadilly and is originally from Wales

For curiosity's sake, would anyone know what store is this?

also, he went to a Haberdashers' Aske's School for Boys, which was founded by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers


also from wiki:

The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The organisation, which developed from the Mercers' Company, another Livery Company connected with clothing and haberdashery, received a Royal Charter in 1448. The Company, which was originally responsible for the regulation cloth merchants, began to lose control due to the increase of the population of London, its jurisdiction. Thus, the Company now exists as an educational and charitable institution only, instead of retaining links to its original trade.

 

[texas_jack]

I once heard that haberdashery was a common trade amongst jewish people. Don't know if this is true or not.

 

[Christofuh]

 

[RJman]

Haberdasher Aske's was, for your passing information, a location used in many, many Avengers episodes.

 

[kcheng]

For those who have never seen Borat looking more normal

 

[Joffrey]

He looks like a euro creep in the first foto, but ok in the second. Its probably because of his arm candy

 

[mack11211]

Perhaps the tonsure in the first photo was from when he was playing a eurocreep racecar driver in Talladega Nights.

 

[grimslade]

When he appeared on (Leno? one of the late-night talk shows) a while back (as himself, not Borat), he was wearing a black french-cuff shirt with the cuffs undone and unfolded.

 

[EL72]

Originally Posted by texas_jack

I once heard that haberdashery was a common trade amongst jewish people. Don't know if this is true or not.

It is indeed. Usually referred to as the schmatte business (for rag in Yiddish).

 

[alflauren]

Originally Posted by Jodum5

He looks like a euro creep in the first foto, but ok in the second. Its probably because of his arm candy

That first photo made me instantly think of my all-time favorite Onion point/counterpoint.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/34198