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#2 2013-01-14 11:22:49
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Re: When "slender" was not "skinny".
I agree, these jackets you see at the mo, just don't look right at all.
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#3 2013-01-14 12:31:24
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Re: When "slender" was not "skinny".
The fashion world's need for exaggeration, maybe...?
Its still identifiable as a suit. They've just tinkering around the edges that's all.
Which is all they ever do really.
Says a lot about the suit.
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#4 2013-01-14 13:20:25
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Re: When "slender" was not "skinny".
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#5 2013-01-14 13:49:38
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Re: When "slender" was not "skinny".
formby is right. It is a silly parody, that sums it up. Besides there is no hope of me fitting into any of them! I am not sure whether to anticipate the return to baggy, no tailor will comply though?
#6 2013-01-14 14:08:28
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Re: When "slender" was not "skinny".
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#7 2013-01-14 15:53:03
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Re: When "slender" was not "skinny".
Well 1960s suits were recognisables.
60s Italian style or Anthony Sinclair's conduit cut are recognisables.
Today a suit recognisable for his good taste and good fit?
No,eh?
#8 2013-01-14 19:00:36
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Re: When "slender" was not "skinny".
Cógelo suave, pero cógelo.
#9 2013-01-15 01:38:59
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Re: When "slender" was not "skinny".
Skinny is a very poor look. I can fit into those hideous suits but would never consider purchasing one, they are simply unflattering and undermine everything I appreciate in the appearance of a smart suit. The zenith of wrongness is the cuffs of a suit jacket being lower than it's hem. 
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#10 2013-01-15 03:18:41
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Re: When "slender" was not "skinny".
I find it ironic that the skinny look is around at a time when the Western male is becoming increasingly obese. The look has been around for some time now and I am surprised that the pendulum hasn't yet swung back to a baggy, loose fitting, wide shouldered look. The overweight English comedian? Alexei Sayle sported the look way back for supposed comic effect.We didn't laugh then but we are laughing now.
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#11 2013-01-15 04:37:51
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Re: When "slender" was not "skinny".
^That falls into the same interesting phenomena of rugged work gear for those who work in offices and haven't lifted a finger in hard manual labour.
There's a desperate longing and nostalgia in-built in modern man's DNA that is telling us, things were actually better in the past, including sartorially.
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#12 2013-01-15 09:04:47
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Re: When "slender" was not "skinny".
There was a thread with a similar theme here:
http://forums.filmnoirbuff.com/viewtopic.php?id=7155&p=1
You need to go to the foot of page two to see the picture everyone is raving about. I agree entirely with carpu that slender does not need to mean skinny. Having said that, not everyone in the 60s was as well presented as Patrick McNee.
Is the offensive skinny look more of a northern European thing? I don't recall it being the dominant look in Italy on my recent visits.
#13 2013-01-15 09:36:48
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Re: When "slender" was not "skinny".
No,is not dominant in Italy,not in the way that is in USA i think.
But this year suits in the shop windows are more tights and shorts.
#15 2013-01-15 09:47:18
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Re: When "slender" was not "skinny".
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#16 2013-01-15 09:50:30
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Re: When "slender" was not "skinny".
The other very noticeable thing about the suit that Steed is wearing is the length of the trouser, with a clear break on the Chelsea boot. Again, our memory of the Sixties would suggest a much shorter pant.
#17 2013-01-15 12:34:39
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Re: When "slender" was not "skinny".
Well,in Italy was not short,but right, without break on shoes.
"Pantaloni a scalino" (stair trousers) with the front cut slightly more short that the back,just like a stair (a bit like the Steed's trousers in the picture) .
But the lenght was not short like in the American pants.