[Vision2020] Phil, Tom, and Filson clothes (say what?)

[Joan Opyr]

On 17 Dec 2005, at 17:21, Phil Nisbet wrote:

> For the list
>
> The late posting of a comment I made prior to my appology to Tom 
> Hanson seems to be keeping this thread alive.  That is unfortunate.
>
> As I have noted to SFC Hanson, his service even had it been solely as 
> a clerk typist would have been noble.  The fact that he pulled 10 
> years as an NCO at squad and platoon level in the infantry says much 
> for his spirit of service.  There is no less thanked and more 
> deserving of praise occupation than small unit infantry leader.  Its a 
> tough job to do when you are young and spry and take exceptional 
> intestinal fortitude to do when you are middle aged.
>
> Phil Nisbet

Phil has apologized, Tom has accepted, and so, this thread should end.  
But first . . .

I've got say, along with Keely, that the peaceful resolution of this 
exchange is truly exemplary.  I've known Tom for a long time; he's a 
decent and honorable man who loves this community and the University of 
Idaho, and he is willing to go to the mat for both.  I've only recently 
come to know Phil via offlist email exchanges and his kind sharing of 
Jewish books, music, and theology.  Phil has promised to write a New 
West piece on Mike Wendt's Pottery down in Lewiston that I am eager to 
read.  (No pressure or anything, Phil . . . but now that I've made this 
news public, others will be looking for your piece and, well . . . 
aren't editors sneaky?  Ha!)

Now for something completely different.  I just bought a pair of Filson 
double-tin cloth hunting pants.  I bought them from Ebay, thus saving 
myself a bundle, but unfortunately, they're unhemmed.  The inseam must 
be 36 inches long.  I need a 31.  Is there anyone around here who 
can/will hem a pair of Filson's?  Rose won't do it -- it might break 
her Pfaff sewing machine, which she loves more than I love Steve 
McQueen, and that's going some.  I had thought of asking Peck's, but 
someone told me that they only sew leather.  In the past, I would have 
called Creighton's, but that, sadly, is now kaput.  Any advice from you 
Filson-wearing hunters (and/or sewing folk) would be greatly 
appreciated.  I don't want to have to mail these to Seattle; I'd much 
rather have the work done locally.

BTW, appropo of nothing, I love Filson.  I have a Filson hat and a 
Filson coat and now these trousers, which are oil-finished shelter 
cloth, designed to keep my backside dry when I'm out deer hunting.  All 
are made in Seattle by a really great company.  Filson clothing is 
built to last -- coats are handed down generation to generation.  I 
bought my coat from a guy on Ebay who said he'd gotten it as a present 
some twenty years ago and was only selling it because he'd come to the 
reluctant conclusion that he'd never be a medium again -- not in this 
lifetime, anyway.

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com

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