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#1 2016-09-09 15:32:48

formby1
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Why jewellery looks so bad on men...


"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

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#2 2016-09-10 23:44:03

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Re: Why jewellery looks so bad on men...

There has been in the early to mid 1950s a fashion for men to sport gold wrist chains, it wasn't only a 1970s afflication. And remember those huge coin rings from the early/1990s?

The message is clear: if you don't want to look like a pimp, give ostentetious jewellery a miss.


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#3 2016-09-11 08:55:06

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Re: Why jewellery looks so bad on men...

Hilarious because most jewelry was originally designed for and worn mostly by men.

Fortunately I dont read a lot of papers here but the UK seems to have a lot of publications that write articles stipulating that men are doing something embarrassing and has better stop! Where that outraged, collective, normative standard comes from would be nice to know.

Do they have the same amount of pieces lamenting the behavior of women too? Or, as in seemingly all other social areas,  is it only men that are responsible for frightening the family dog?

 

#4 2016-09-11 10:45:33

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Re: Why jewellery looks so bad on men...


"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."

 

#5 2016-09-11 13:05:59

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Re: Why jewellery looks so bad on men...

Wear lots of jewellery in the UK and you'll either look like you feed other members of the criminal fraternity to pigs, or add to it shell suits and a cigar and you're a massive paedophile.

UK taste is best observed...our climate makes are miserable and in that we are extremely critical, and we are only moved when things are truly great. Arabs, Russians and Eurotrash are ruining the look of London. Of course the cold Anglo-Saxons have the best taste but add the wistful Celt blood...and you have the best of both worlds.

Velvet Maseratis?

I ask you.

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#6 2016-09-11 14:05:23

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#7 2016-11-06 14:49:05

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Re: Why jewellery looks so bad on men...

A small watch (<39mm) in precious metal, alternatively a nice 1950-1980ies Oyster. Maybe nice cufflinks. No rings. Done.


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#8 2016-11-08 09:56:45

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Re: Why jewellery looks so bad on men...

^Yeah baby, and if you can't afford the above a vintage Omega Seamaster, present day Ole Mathiesen, or Longines Conquest vintage stylee will do in no particular order.


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#9 2016-11-08 16:55:25

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Re: Why jewellery looks so bad on men...

a 1960ies 33mm YG omega, longines even audemars or vacheron should be doable for everyone


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#10 2016-11-12 09:43:17

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#11 2016-11-12 11:03:33

formby1
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Re: Why jewellery looks so bad on men...


"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

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#12 2016-11-12 13:54:28

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#13 2016-11-13 09:54:26

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Re: Why jewellery looks so bad on men...

The guy who invented the Macintosh doesn't wear anything...he's dead.


"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

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#14 2016-11-13 10:15:20

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Re: Why jewellery looks so bad on men...

But his glasses live on....I've just purchased a pair, well, I still have to pick them up and pay for them.


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#15 2016-11-13 11:42:09

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Re: Why jewellery looks so bad on men...


"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

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#16 2016-11-13 12:57:06

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Re: Why jewellery looks so bad on men...

I've had a lot of round and oval glasses over the years, not quite as thick as Corbusier's in a roundish style, although in the Lemtosh, yes. I always think round spectacles give a very creative impression. So we'll see how I get along with Steve Job's favs.


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#17 2016-11-13 13:36:59

formby1
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Re: Why jewellery looks so bad on men...

Philip Johnson wore them too, ripping his look off Corb and his architecture of Mies.

...what a cad.


"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

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#18 2016-11-13 21:37:14

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Re: Why jewellery looks so bad on men...

Getting an iWatch.


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#19 2016-11-14 07:53:19

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Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare

 

#20 2016-11-14 08:50:51

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Re: Why jewellery looks so bad on men...

There's always that Tag Connected watch that they are massively marketing along with sunglass as the market for the Tag Monaco has now collapsed. Even I am thinking of buying one.


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