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#26 2013-11-02 06:50:21
- formby
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#32 2013-11-02 14:24:24
- Goodyear welt
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^^
Er, where have you been for the last 4 years? Camping at Red Rock?
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#33 2013-11-02 14:27:00
- Goodyear welt
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My tailor is 74, even he is suggesting a 32" length jacket.
I should add I'm 6' 5" I guess.
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#36 2013-11-03 05:57:02
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#37 2013-11-03 07:19:22
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Most of such dicta probably refer to the need to avoid attracting attention just to one's clothes - be remarkable overall - and not just because you are a bonehead with a snazzy tie.
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#39 2013-11-03 10:13:19
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As a matter of interest and coincidence, I have just been reading H Rider Haggard's A Farmer's Year (1899) in which he says ''Heretofore John Bull has been depicted as a countryman and nothing else, a comparision with meaning.'' So, if that is right, John Bull is a clod; a bumpkin; a yokel.
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I'm in love with every gal;
I flirt with Maudie and I flirt with Alice,
I'm a real life Regent's pal.
#40 2013-11-03 10:36:25
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Doesnt matter what Brummell actually said or meant, bravely frightened dressers wearing the drabbest items possible will still assert that they're wearing the only correct attire.
In their minds, they will believe they are wearing a navy solid suit, white shirt and navy solid silk tie (Not that there's anything wrong with that, -Seinfeld) even if they are really wearing a poorly fitting odd navy jacket with mismatched navy pant and a moldy thrifted striped tie.
Clothies often misunderstand that plain clothes can be very tacky as well.
#42 2013-11-03 14:24:02
- formby
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Re: Fashion...
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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