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#26 2009-10-19 02:24:23
- Kingstonian
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Re: Wearing the classic cardi
Merino cardigan will go under a jacket.
My thin Northern-based uncles managed to wear heavy cardigans under suit jackets, but they were just being Northern - like the bloke in the old John Smiths adverts.
#27 2009-10-19 02:26:32
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Re: Wearing the classic cardi
zip jumpers are always on sale from Woolovers. I do not think there is much of a market for them.
Too close to a fleece maybe ?
#28 2009-10-19 02:43:19
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Wearing the classic cardi
^ Good point.
Which is all about NOW & not Ye Tradition!
#31 2009-10-19 11:50:33
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^ Real Northerners ? Depends what age you are talking about
http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie_vintage.php?filename=VA0024
Bare chested drunk Geordie football supporters is a relatively new phenomenon.
#32 2009-10-20 02:26:26
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Just trying to be humerous really Kingstonian. Not really up for a debate on REAL northerners. As for mad Geordies football fans... Yeah, the've only been around for the last 40 years at least. Relatively new...
#33 2009-10-20 12:35:58
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Re: Wearing the classic cardi
i like the way peter falk wore his cardi in 'a woman under the influence'. only did the last two buttons.
#36 2009-10-23 05:47:19
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Can you use the term 'rocks' in conjunction with a cardie? Isn't that an oxymoron?
#37 2009-10-23 05:55:10
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#38 2009-10-23 05:56:05
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Wearing the classic cardi
... Ya know a while back the Cardi was voted Not Trad?
Cardigans were fashionable at the time with various young designers and so the Trads were against them.
Funny old world.
Moose makes the Cardi nicely Hip there, I'd say. Traditional & Hip.
Can we call this 'Trip' style?
#43 2009-10-23 07:49:09
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#44 2009-10-23 07:59:24
- Alex Roest
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Re: Wearing the classic cardi
Ivy only becomes cool when it's being worn in a clued-up manner, it doesn't have to be 'hip' necessarily, but one has to know what they're doing in order to make it work I think.
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#45 2009-10-23 08:24:12
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Re: Wearing the classic cardi
We ALL rock nicely! Like grandma's old chair!
#47 2009-10-23 09:23:23
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but you can be clued up and still not look cool though.
To me hip (not a word I would use much) is that coolness when you wear the clothes not them wearing you - which is why imagine that's why take ivy has quite a lot of interest - maybe especially to young guys? - it all looks natural and easy (even if some shots were staged!)
Which is why I don't want to totally replicate the look exactly piece by piece, as it might look too try hard. Which isn't cool regardless of any style.
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#48 2009-10-23 10:42:27
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Re: Wearing the classic cardi
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#49 2009-11-11 09:23:22
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Re: Wearing the classic cardi
I live in cardigans this time of year, the weather is usually just chill enough to where that's all you need so I have way too many than I could ever wear regularly.
I like the unfussiness of a cardigan's buttons, prefer it over a vneck and getting it over my head to put on/off. and I leave the bottom button undone, seems to function better when one is sitting, tho doing so has sort of become a written rule of how to button a cardigan.
and I actually quite disagree about Ivy looking natural and easy on younger guys, some reason when I see a younger guy now trying to dress ivy it looks extremely contrived (or worse like your mother dressed you). IMHO I think a "classic ivy" style is very difficult to wear without it looking forced, costume-y or stodgy. Most will do better using an ivy influence as a foundation, rather than full hog. But that goes back to Alex's point of needing to be at easy within your chosen style, and I dont think young guys are when they try to "dress ivy".
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#50 2009-11-11 09:39:59
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Re: Wearing the classic cardi
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