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#1 2009-09-07 01:39:14
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
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Duh !!!
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?t=97722
Where d'ya think "Trad" comes from, boys?
The term and the construct are Japanese, used by Flusser correctly and then misinterpreted on the MBs starting on the GoPreppy site. That spawned Harris & he spawned Trad. Others then took the ball from him and gave it a good kicking. iBall is a growing sport!
That there should be "Trad" in the US is the odd thing. It belongs in Japan. Why would America have a pastiche of it's own style when it owns the real style anyway? And why adopt (and use incorrectly) a foreign term for the style?
The answer is... The shameful ignorance in the US of its homegrown style on the MBs.
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#2 2009-09-07 01:55:15
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: Duh !!!
And in Japan only Ivy means Ivy. The term Trad also contains classic English style - In fact anything 'Traditional' at all.
#3 2009-09-07 02:21:49
- Moose Maclennan
- Ivy Inspiration
- From: Hernando's Hideaway
- Posts: 4577
Re: Duh !!!
^
That fits in with the Tradds to a 'T' tho'. Barbour, Bookster and Bentleys. And why the heck not?
Don't answer that.
#4 2009-09-08 02:07:51
- Beatnik
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Re: Duh !!!
That Japanese trad is scary. A load of middle aged Japanese gentlemen dressed as Pee Wee Herman or looking like they were extras in 'Caddyshack'.
Bizarre, how after fighting a war with the USA they now all want to be American. It would be like a club of British blokes meeting up to wear traditional Bavarian Lederhosen. Good luck to them though, but do they really have to look so shit?
#5 2009-09-08 03:07:51
- Kingstonian
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Re: Duh !!!
^ Tartan trousers and bow ties. Perhaps they are wearing all that stuff for a bet ?
#6 2009-09-08 03:21:39
- Beatnik
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Re: Duh !!!
Perhaps we should all get together in our kimonos for a traditional Geisha tea ceremony...
#8 2009-09-08 04:33:48
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
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Re: Duh !!!
Some Japanese Ivy is fantastic. Other bits not so much.
#9 2009-09-08 04:49:40
- Moose Maclennan
- Ivy Inspiration
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Re: Duh !!!
I suspect the notorious Japanese love for detail can work just as much against them as for them.
#11 2009-09-08 04:53:50
- Beatnik
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Re: Duh !!!
I love all the different youth cults that come together in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo. As Moose said the attention to detail is fantastic. Especially the rockabillies. They get the style spot on.
#12 2009-09-08 07:54:43
- Big Tony
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Re: Duh !!!
"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
"When it comes to infidelity, broken families, and reckless fatherhood, the underclass are amateurs."
#13 2009-09-09 01:36:44
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: Duh !!!
This gave me a grin this morning:
http://www.observer.com/2009/fashion/trad-men?page=all
Posted up by A Continuous Lean on AAAT. He it was who got me that NYC FT gig last year...
- Fakery is in the air... You can smell it!
#14 2009-09-09 01:57:38
- Moose Maclennan
- Ivy Inspiration
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Re: Duh !!!
^
I have often thought of opting for the more economical and authentic route of getting my dress shirts custom-made, perhaps by a tailor like Alexander Kabbaz.
#15 2009-09-09 02:08:38
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
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Re: Duh !!!
I loved seeing AK's name there in the Trad article.
Wot a crock.
#16 2009-09-09 02:11:04
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: Duh !!!
And ACL is best mates with Mark McNairy & "The Trad"...
It's a fix! Again!
#17 2009-09-09 02:44:15
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
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Re: Duh !!!
Last edited by Russell_Street (2009-09-09 02:46:56)
#20 2009-09-09 09:42:02
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: Duh !!!
'Trad' as a fashionable NYC thing tickled me too...
Wot trash this is!
#21 2009-09-09 09:48:51
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
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Re: Duh !!!
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?t=97783
There are men & there are boys. There are men & there are "Trads".
HoHoHo.
#23 2009-09-09 11:29:44
- AQG
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Re: Duh !!!
Here comes Russell Street again
With venom and spleen
and the Ivy thing.
He's gonna do another Trad tease.
Hey man, where'd ya get those Weejuns?
He's been hurting since he bought the gimmick
About something called Trad,
Yeah something called Trad.
Well, that's like hypnotizing preppies.
Well, he's just an Ivy guy.
Of course he's busted on the Trads before.
He's got a lust for strife.
He ought to get a life.
He's spent a million in Simons'.
With his button down,
Buy some LL Bean,
Wear a dessie boot
All on a government loan.
He's spent a million in Simons'.
Yeah, I'm through with listening to Russell talk.
No more beating my brains
No more beating my brains
With Ivy and Trads
With Ivy and Trads.