you say you can't speak for me but you just did. everyday life, entrtainment. that's what all this forum malarky is all about to me.

Fair enough, I only post occasionally. Disregard!

I don't think you'll get very far with the old 'I do it to bring out the best in people' gambit. Not here, and not without being a whole lot cooler about it.

If it's escapism and fantasy you're after, why not dress as a pirate? Much more fun.


'Snap yourself, don't crap yourself' is brilliant BTW. I'm going to start saying that to people just to savour the nonplussed look as I walk away.

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Are you turning on me Moose. I note a slight change in the tone of your posts. Have I not entertained you today?

I knew big Gibbo would wade in at some point with his God-like voice booming from Ivy Mountain.
I love the man's unfaltering faith in his own taste and intelligence. Wonderful.
Unfortunatly his judgement in this case is slightly clouded. I am not now, or have ever been, a mod Sir, or have ever been on, or seen this Modculture site.
I do have a hard on for Daniele. If that means I think he is a very well dressed man, who would turn heads and also knows how to take a good photograph and present himself well. I would admire this whether he was a punk, a mod or new age crusty.
I do see the glamour you describe in a sack suit and desert boots (strangely enough what i'm wearing today). I just think this glamour isn't played up enough on the forum and we often revel in the mundane.
Gibson can't you see why I do this? We have had some lively and entertaining debate today, and if it means I have to play the pantomime baddy to initiate this then so be it.I may be a nasty, rude boy (I'm 48!) but your racist remarks and negative mod references are also uncalled for.
GG, I just got bored and tried to stir up some craic. All this about me stamping on stuff is rather overly dramatic.
We all know you won't really be happy until you have your 'bona fide' Ivy forum left to yourself and maybe one or two others. Sadly I'm queer and I'm here old chum!

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On the subject of the frumpiness of 'the look' I've always kind of gone along with that old line about it making you look older when younger but younger when older. When I was 22 I wore bloody herringbone and saddle bucks and didn't get laid for 4 years! But I/we were extreme cases, especially when we all went out and got Anglo-American hornrims to make us look like extras from Annie Hall but completely physically undesirable to all the 20 year olds we wanted to bang. Bittersweet years indeed. Folk like Adam! though it seems to me have taken the sweeter, boyish, sporty elements of the style and are probably still attractive to the opposite or indeed the same sex. Now I am 44 I think my look is considered charming and distinctive by the more discerning out there. Most though still don't give a shit, don't have an eye and their opinions are completely worthless anyway.

GG