Back to the top post... "when I’ve said all I have to say on this subject"... ?

You've said nothing yet.

How he's now going to fill space on his blog will be fun to watch.

- To work with you, CMC!


Yr. Unc. 

Well, I don't think "commercialism" or "professionalism" is the problem of the Ivy-Style blog. There is business and there is business.

Its main problem is its lack of knowledge, its lack of depth, its lack of research, its lack of soul... sometimes, though, there was a little bit of good work involved, too! Ivy in Japan, for example....

His Ads are getting more desperate & tacky now too, now he's just going all out for money & being honest about it.

Debenhams?
McDonalds?

The layout of his site always puts me in mind of those A5 sized 'parish newsletter/booklet' type things that get posted though your letterbox. The ones where there are a few kind words from the vicar or news about the re-opening of the community centre flanked either side by box ads for Dave the plumber or the High Street kebab shop.

Staceyboy

The LIFE image archives are a good resource.  Just one of many, though, and I've tried not to be too reliant on it.  That said, I think I've got a post coming up with an image taken from LIFE. 

One must be very selective.  A man in a early-60s three-button suit and button-down collar shirt is not necessarily "Ivy" (or even what some call "Trad").  They tend to miss that somtimes over on AAAT in that big Alden Pyle thread.  And the image itself is not usually enough; it's important to me to add something of significance (for example, a little background on the person(s)) to the image.

I'm sure that this is a minor speedbump in Ivy-Style.com's fast lane to fame.

Last edited by The Look (2010-04-15 08:09:22)

Its a fast lane to fame and mediocrity allright, and not to mention abuse of historical fact.

Lets not pretend, or give Chinny-Chenners values or youth and integrity where he has none. He's 40 goddammit! Well practically, and he's hustling like John Voigt in Midnight Cowboy without the manners and half decency, or John Wayne swagger.

Don't treat him like a sixth form student. He's a man, at least in age. If he was my son, I would whip his ass, and make him get a job.