Last edited by wombat (2010-05-25 15:15:53)

Jesus. Ask Andy: the place to go when you want style criticism from people who wear their Blackberries on belt holsters.

Let us now discuss AlanC's shoes: why do they all look diseased? Every other part of his outfit clearly receives intense scrutiny and calculation, yet his shoes always look like he pulled them out the dumpster behind Aldo:

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?62656-What-Are-You-Wearing-Today&p=1104179#post1104179

I mean, the rest of the outfit is pretty bad (I have never seen seersucker make someone look that fat before), but at least it looks clean and planned. Also, could someone please explain to me the machined belt buckle trend that appears to be sweeping the "fora"? Some kind of boy scout fetish?

While we're at it, could someone please explain this inanity to me:
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?105323-Does-anyone-wear-printed-t-shirts-here-or-is-it-plain-t-shirts
Do iGents really not know how to wear "printed" t-shirts? Did they all proceed directly from the age of, say, six to thirty without passing through the intervening years?

And a trip to the Agoge:
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?105325-Yellow-Traces-around-the-armpit-area-of-my-MTM-Shirts...
In which the troll Virtuti returns with a normal, though gross question (although he does inject his typical note of the bizarre by claiming that his "company laundry" cleans all his shirts), and Kabbaz and Googlestrom butt heads.

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?105330-What-type-of-collar-is-this
And a tart, short thread in which Kabbaz makes a statement with which we are all certain to agree.

Change is afoot in Tradland!

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?105284-Yea-or-Nay-...-and-What-s-It-To-Be

I still think his shoes look diseased and I will stand by that opinion until I die. It's a subtle, tragic disease.

Speaking of philosophical meltdowns, here's a thread in which a bunch of people who do not really know what "modernist" means discuss Foo as if he were the founder of a major intellectual movement:

http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=102175

Last edited by formby (2010-05-26 10:30:31)

http://www.styleforum.net/showpost.php?p=3258401&postcount=205

http://www.styleforum.net/showpost.php?p=3258448&postcount=206

Oh brother.

Is it Spinoza who said that error and doubt merely manifest the absence of knowledge of the truth?

I think, therefore, I am.

I am, therefore I think.

Sometimes I just sits and thinks, but mostly I just sits.

Letterman jackets? they cannot be serious! I earned a letter in wrestling and cross country. I was jumped by 3 football players and sent the fair haired boy, class president and quarterback to hospital with a compound fracture in his throwing arm.
We lost every game my senior year, he lost a athletic scholarship to UCLA and the athletic committee rescinded my two letters for 'unsportsmanlike conduct.'  So I removed them both and wore the damned jacket like a disgraced military officer. They tried to stop me from wearing it. I threatened lawsuit or the option of buying it back- at 2x the price. They bought it.

Last edited by ckav (2010-05-26 12:27:23)

I am embaressed by my threadbare wardrobe, but hardly psychotic. The irony, I live in a society where my boring Park Avenues set me apart from 99.9875% of other men. Should I see that .0020% it's a simple matter of fading into the sea of denim blue to hide. Problem is, the .0005% igents are in red cords  and Park Avenues spouting allusions to "wine red seas."

Last edited by ckav (2010-05-26 13:20:10)