- And you'll know his son's Brooksian observations in 'Famous After Death' too.

In a way this just shows the diversity of the classic American style - Yes, it's got O'Hara, Buckley & Cheever in the mix, but also just look at all the rest. Kerouac had a Brooks suit too...

Could this have been it?

http://27.media.tumblr.com/AhHLjGs1Vqrx0qf1Oj2AfMTfo1_500.gif

I'm happy that someone put up an interesting post. And just for fun I will state my honest opinion that Skip or Harris knew far more about this subject in his finger nails than any of you English posters combined.
    But I do request that every english poster stop wearing American clothes and stop posting anything about American Style. To quote Jim Cramer on a similar controversial subject "THEY KNOW NOTHING!!!!!!!THEY KNOW NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
    Do us all a favor. Do western civilization a favor. Do the late Kenneth Clark A favor. Ban yourselves from the internet. All you people who shopped at whatever you call that store "John Simon"s" or whatever. Begon! You have sat here too long for any useful purpose.
    I am not joking about this. Get the hell out of dodge. The world does not need this drivel. If you can't attract American posters go ahead and shoot yourselves. You serve no useful purpose.Go read the Ivy Style blog and actually learn something.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9lmepH9STs   ????

... He actually believed in none of the above & was just doing an act on the telly.

This was well known. He was a fake.

Now... Malcolm Muggeridge - There was a fake!

However, Lord Longford was for real...


Not much to do with clothes is it, all this?

Another tangent:

Lord Winstanley & This Is Your Right!

Who remembers that bit of fun on ITV, Oooop North?

Now he was for real.

... Couldn't find a pic of him, but here is Lord Longford:

http://www.excatholicsforchrist.com/images/long%201.JPG

Is he Trad?

- I once held a door open for him on Paddington Station, you know. I'd often see him up there on his way home out West...

One of those stories like Michael Foot's 'Donkey Jacket', eh?



... So where's that clothing expert Tom, then? 

Oh no, I'm sure that just like SC he's a lovely bloke in real life. I enjoy his posts a lot.

The style has is a type of 'shift', a creative incongruity, an unorthodoxy outside its homeland. The concept is hard enough - for me - to explain, so I'm not surprised that some cannot grasp it.

No confrontation sought, fellow Weejunaires

Tom is fine, but he will play the 'lifestyle' thing to the hilt.

And, to repeat, this is a clothing forum.

Great shoes that old Ken was wearing, he would get my vote, that tells us he's too big to bother getting a new pair for a petty conference and is his own man. And that's probably why he was never Tory leader.

I've seen the video footage of Foot at the cenotaph, it was nearly a donkey jacket. He was pillared by the Tory press and yet, he did a sterling job as a journalist during WWII. He also got pissed with Hemmingway when he came over.