Britain's Best Dressed Real Man 2010 - Selling his prize off piece by piece...

[CruzAzul]

I think it's important that no more than 5 posts go by without someone pointing out that this guy fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.

Just resetting the counter, folks.

 

[IndianBoyz]

He can't help, relax. WTF.

 

[Politely]

Some woman comes on here and defends her boyfriend with literacy, reasonableness and (probable) honesty, and you all swoon. It's disgusting, is what it is. This is exactly why women should be banned from men's clubs.

 

[Nataku]

Originally Posted by HHD

That's one of the most civilised things anyone has posted here for ages. Thanks for contributing and good luck with the sale!


+100000.

 

[MyOtherLife]

 

[Warren G.]

wow

 

[Icarus]

Originally Posted by goodbyehorses

Wow that was quick! I really do appreciate that his style definitely won't be to the taste of a lot of men, it's a shame that he wore that outfit on the night of the awards in a way as most days he wears a made-to-measure suit, shirt and some expensive shoes even just to go to the supermarket or bowling (really!) but he just happened to wear his most controversial look of the year on the night that he would be photographed the most. He would actually kill me for writing this as despite his little dance around on stage on the night he won, he'a actually really humble and would be mortified if he knew I was discussing him at all, but I suppose I felt the need to defend him as some comments (more on the other thread than this one to be honest) stray a little away from the subject matter and are verging on plain offensive. Also, didn't want my eBay udername having people thinking I was some kind of hardened criminal

I hope his suit minus shirt fiasco (he was actually wearing a vest underneath haha) hasn't put a complete dampener on his career as he's a really talanted womenswear designer, so we're hoping the stuff on eBay will sell and help get him started but the labels he got aren't the easiest things to sell as I'm not so sure a typical Brioni or Cucinelli customer will be the type to shop on eBay but we'll see... Thanks for the kind words anyway

You sound like a great girlfriend, and you were effective because my thoughts went from thinking he's a wanker to thinking he's probably a nice guy. Although, if it's womenswear he wants to design, I would be weary of any guy friends he's made out with when he was intoxicated, but later claimed they were "just friends". (joke

) I think his lack of shirt only gave him more credibility as a designer (womenswear or otherwise). A plain ol' suit would have taken away any and all mystique.

 

[Reggs]

Goodbyehorses sounds like a prize. I must steal her!

 

[fss]

It is simply ridiculous that Esquire would give clothes away without any regard to the size of the prize winner. In fact, I have a pretty hard time believing it.

 

[MalfordOfLondon]

Originally Posted by fss

It is simply ridiculous that Esquire would give clothes away without any regard to the size of the prize winner. In fact, I have a pretty hard time believing it.

Am I going mad? Where does it say that all of these clothes were in a predetermined size? As far as I see it the guy chose the sizes and now selling them off to fund his project?

 

[fss]

Originally Posted by StephenStyle

Am I going mad? Where does it say that all of these clothes were in a predetermined size? As far as I see it the guy chose the sizes and now selling them off to fund his project?

I cannot come up with another explanantion when the clothes are far too big, as goodbyehorses puts it. Not his style, I can understand, but anybody should be able to get those clothes fitted properly to an acceptable extend.

 

[Sanguis Mortuum]

Originally Posted by fss

I cannot come up with another explanantion when the clothes are far too big, as goodbyehorses puts it. Not his style, I can understand, but anybody should be able to get those clothes fitted properly to an acceptable extend.

The Brioni suit on eBay is size 36, clearly he is skinny enough to need something like a size 34 (like I do). Do Brioni even make size 34? He probably got to choose which size but if the pre-chosen item isn't even made in a size small enough what else can he do...

 

[CitizenM]

it is his stuff now, so he does with it as he pleases.

for your convenience:

the finalists:
http://www.esquire.co.uk/2010/08/bes...alists-top-12/

the winner
http://www.esquire.co.uk/2010/09/bri...n-the-winners/

other pictures
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/...ancock-009.jpg
http://zanacco.com/blog/?attachment_id=193

 

[MalfordOfLondon]

Originally Posted by CitizenM

it is his stuff now, so he does with it as he pleases.

Thanks for the clarification

FYI the entrants / photos etc have discussed ad nauseamhere

 

[RJE]

Originally Posted by JohnGalt

@ taxes on 30k GBP of stuff that doesn't fit

Originally Posted by whiteslashasian

That's what I was thinking...filing taxes for 2010 will not be enjoyable.

Originally Posted by imatlas

Excellent point. At least with the KC Goodwill run you get a tax deduction. Selling the crap on EBay creates the potential for another round of taxes!

We do things a little differently. There won't be taxes on the prizes, and it's highly unlikely there will be any on gains from the resold prizes.