• Comment by Roy R. Platt — September 27, 2012 @ 11:37 pm
Through the magic of the internet, one can hear actual recordings of the voices of King George V, King Edward VIII (later The Duke of Windsor), and King George VI. Anyone who wishes to comment about “accents” might want to listen to their “accents”.
Some of the posts at FNB are enough to make one ashamed that some of their ancestors might have come from the UK. It’s almost like what Malcolm Muggeridge said in the Carnaby Street-Mod/Rocker era, “The British have stopped being Romans and have started to become Italians”.
As a history nerd i find this very interesting. As the Romans were inspired by and emulated all things Hellenic (Greece being the preceding superpower). There are direct comparisons between the ending of Pax Britannia (early twentieth century) and the beginning of pax Americana. Does Chenners and his cohorts see themselves as the noble torch holders of the Patrician classes of America who were thus inspired by the aristocracy of the British Empire? The accent of the aristocracy of great Britain was only ever used by a very small minority of British people.
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Definitely not, Chenners (we can no longer call him Chinny after his diet) chums have always had an anti-English bent. For all the usual reasons cited by Americans. But amongst this bile and hatred, there is quite possibly a chip on their shoulders for not having been born into the landed gentry of the old country. In short, jealousy.
Hepcat there is truth in what you are saying.They just don't get though do they.The critique is not of Americans,how can it be.
This forum is about American clothes and in a wider context Americana.I think the ideological differences are about aspirations
and delusions of grandeur.I think British people just hate snobbery and i think that's what Chenners and his gang are all about.
I like these clothes because i like them it does not make me fell superior to anyone else.
It's silly really I quite like FNB telling me what English people think, I like to see the fantasy vs the reality.
The one voice of dissent on the FIT video was Bruce Boyer talking about the jazz connection but that aspect doesn't seem to feature in the exhibition.
I know its really boring and not even worth a mention but ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
• Comment by Sloan Square — September 28, 2012 @ 2:45 pm
Comment by oxford cloth button down — September 28, 2012 @ 12:31 pm
I am going to say “B” by default. If “A” removed that sweater from around his neck and was photographed more naturally I would have voted for him I think. Both are dressed better than most people that I encounter day to day.
I concur.
Moreover, as well as probably being able to spell ‘Ivy’ they are better dressed than some of the bizarre attempts at being well-dressed posted elsewhere.
There is one particular clothing forum, whose name escapes me that has some of the darnedest scoundrels imaginable cluttering up bandwidth with photographs of themselves in the most tasteless attire a Glaswegian garage mechanics on a Saturday night could imagine.
They really should stop with the compliments. We'll all get big heads.... and I can't have that. I've a popover on the way!
^^ your not a mechanic by any chance are you mate?
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I just thought it was some advertising thing to try and bring some colour into the shot. It's an advertisement, not some real life event. Let's face it, it's obviously something a Truman Capote wannabe communications major from a third rate northern Californian University, would regard as hip.
lol the guys on the left must be the darnedest scoundrels from the unnamed clothing forum.
Is this really what Glaswegian garage mechanics dress like?
I don't think i would fancy a full service from one of that lot.
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Thats shooey behind the bar.
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Christian suddenly discovered that his 'Go to hell pants' meant something else when he went back to his old haunts in San Francisco.