The past is indeed, another country. Its unknowns, if you read history, are known. Tempting, to go back and make a quick buck. The only problem is purchasing a reliable time machine.

Personally, I dig true believers/adventurers in the past, those who are well read and choose as an artistic endeavour to place themselves, as an example, Storyville 1900, or the zoot suit riots of 1946, as a moment of stylistic zeitgeist. This must be respected.

The problem with Trad, is it's a post-modern construct to make a quick buck out of the lame and insane.

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Gilgy - I notice that they plug 'The Ivy Look' as a Trad Handbook.

This bodes well for Trad.

I once had some hand-me-down shirts from a long-gone Bond Street maker. They were made of material the like of which I haven't seen since; they had lined fronts and even loops to hold the tie under the collar but no plackets - the simp0le choice of the bespeaker. The presence or absence of such detail is just a matter of personal choice.
RR.

Last edited by Gilgamesh2003 (2010-05-16 12:30:09)