l can't answer the question but l can see some resemblance of some posters here with actors in old black and white American films. Brownshoe looks like alot of old lvy blokes on the telly.

How would you classify Dick Sargents clothes in the old show `bewitched'? (l think Sargents suits always looked better than Dick Yorks).

l turn the topic over to you guys now.

Individualism is the spur. But not in some goth way...

First when becoming a mod back in the day and now in the middle ages, I wanted something different that referenced that and would be subtly different. Mixing Ivy stuff with Euro seems the way for me. I remember years back, when I was about 19 or so and on holiday in Italy, seeing a group of middle aged guys sitting outside a small bar, just mooching, watching the girls go by etc and checking the clothes they were wearing, chukkas and loafers, soft scarves. Knowing that that was the way to grow older with style and grace. I couldn't put my finger on it at the time but in retrospect they were showing off without actually showing off.

But going back to the OP, I think mine was a sort of rejection too but rather of the status quo than anything else and continues to be so. A covert rejection from which you can then build so many positives. There's a lot of knocking of 'mods' on this forum but I credit it personally for leading me to so many things, including ivy, jazz, the nouvelle vague, all sorts of art and architecture.

When there is talk of 'suss' on here that's what I think of, the desire to know things, to incorporate them and learn how to discriminate.

Only 'cartoons', Subtle, only 'cut-outs'.  Every original mod on here gets our respect second to none.

My favourite mods looked on it as a beginning rather than an end.

Worth a bump?

I do have a funny overlap with those guys...

I wonder why I find it a bit strange for me?

  - And I have to say that they've always been most welcoming to me. Tweedy little oddity that I am!

Best,

Last edited by Alex Roest (2009-12-17 05:27:18)