Our beguiling member Spycatcher attempted to rally the ranks on behalf of the Trad universe with fears of the camp being overrun by cuturally inferior natives. Since the last full moon, I have been in a decompression chamber coming up from those fathomless caverns immeasurable to man, with my trusty tomes of Colerdige, Shelley, Blake, Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs to give good council. This message is brought to you from radio Stalingrad, somewhere near the Atlantic Approaches, from a bunker that last saw action during WWII plotting the progress of the Atlanic convoys and implementing tactics to defeat the u-boat menance.

Before we rally to the Tradism cause, its definition is still up for debate and is shrouded in misty, myopic and rose tinted visions of a utopian and wholesome past. It is allied to morals, decency and American cheese, just like Willy Loman.

Tradism is the fetish manifestation of a nostalgic, aching saudade for a time of cultural dominance. It is a rear guard action by a beleagered garrison,  deserted by its greedy elite who have moved the means of technological innovation and production to the endentured communist slave labour factories of the East.

Tradism has yet to define its enemy, its enemy is within, whilst its armies are engaged in global conflict, all that it holds dear is being defeated and eroded from the vulture 'capitalists' from within. Let the market decide they said, unbridle us from regulations and yes, the biggest ponzi scheme in history was engaged, fed on greed, BS and a compliant media.

The hirelings are in the court, camp and universities.

Tradism is being overrun because its members have given the culturally inferior cultures the means to become advanced and innovative.

What has this to do with clothing?  Everything, in the cloistered realm of the Trad. 

Will Tradism have the courage to take the next step and become a revolutionary movement, instead of mincing around like peacocks on the Fora, will they arm themselves for the inevitable revolution?  For Tradism must become revolutionary to fulfil its manifest destiny, for return of the old order.

Ivy-League is engaged in evolution, not revolution. This is the difference.

"Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability." Percy Shelley.