{"id":125,"date":"2012-07-04T23:07:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T22:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quizzica.co.uk\/?p=125"},"modified":"2020-09-07T19:43:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T18:43:26","slug":"its-the-wrong-trousers-mr-konigsberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quizzica.co.uk\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"It’s The Wrong Trousers Mr. Konigsberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Few people shuffling past the wax figure of Woody Allen<\/a>\u00a0in the New York Madam Tussaud’s exhibit will give much thought to his trousers. \u00a0The gold-coloured thick corduroy seems appropriate; they could be a pair provided by the great man himself. \u00a0But before their retirement to West 42nd Street, the trousers had led a full life of their own, here, in London.<\/p>\n

The trousers were bought – for me – in a branch of The Gap<\/em> in 1998. \u00a0I think we went for the gold colour as, at the time, it was a little unusual. \u00a0I became rather fond of them. \u00a0They had that most redeeming feature of a trouser – they were comfortable. \u00a0I wore them rather more than I should, which is where they got their ‘lived-in’ appearance. \u00a0When my first child was born, they were the chosen attire in the dash to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Like many clothes, the cords somehow fell out of use. \u00a0They probably got buried under a half dozen pairs of jeans. \u00a0So, when Mr Allen suddenly – somewhat out of the blue – offered me the sum of \u00a375 for them one day, I accepted. \u00a0I think we paid less than that for them when they were new.<\/p>\n

Well OK, I made that last bit up – mostly. \u00a0In the late 1990s my wife worked as a costume designer for Tussaud’s, dressing most of the figures in the original New York exhibition that was unveiled in 2000. \u00a0She was struggling to find suitable items for the Allen figure, when she happened upon the trousers in our cupboard. \u00a0And that’s how they started their journey to New York. Hopefully I’ll be able to update this post with a photo of my daughter next to the trousers, and Mr. Allen, in the near future.<\/p>\n

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