I hope he is ok. He seemed to show signs of OCD, but then I think it's almost a requirement for membership of this 'club'.

"overwhelming DW odds" - hilarious! If this place is asleep then DW is stone cold dead. I found his ability to think around the topic of 'Ivy' fascinating. To be able to dig so deep and come up with new ideas and new readings indicated his was a serious, and no doubt somewhat frustrated, intellect. Dysfunction pushes the world along. The well-adjusted just shrug and laugh, but they make little mark on things.

The best conversation starter on here, no wonder DW wanted him over there, I mean has anyone had look recently ? Haven't seen hardly any clothing threads, and their Ivy thread seems to have dried up.

Great guy, sadly missed.
A true gent into the bargain.
No doubt chilling out with a stack of New York cabaret discs.

Does anyone know the whereabouts of stanshall? Is he active somewhere else? His contributions were among the most interesting here.

Runningeez ‘ The best conversation starter on here, no wonder DW wanted him over there, I mean has anyone had look recently ? Haven't seen hardly any clothing threads, and their Ivy thread seems to have dried up.’

I’ve been following this forum for a while.

There was a quantity v quality aspect, rather than starting a conversation a lot of the time he seemed to be having a conversation with himself, a lot of the time no one replied to his posts many of which were so cryptic and vague as to be unintelligible.

There isn’t much interest in Ivy clothing on DW it’s true, but the forum works and people can post images. I think Woofboxer was hoping members from here would follow him over and set up an independent Ivy republic, like the Pilgrim Fathers voyage to The New World to seek a place where they could practice their religion freely (Ivy is a religion isn’t it?). However his ship looks to have foundered on a rocky shore and he’s probably scanning the horizon for a friendly sail.

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Kingston1an - ‘ Andy had a very good posting style.’

Perhaps his posts exposed my shallow knowledge and intellect!

‘ Even his rawmaish was worth reading and usually far more interesting than the average poster on clothing forums’

His reports of his extra mural sexual activities were entertaining reading, the ninth item he had bought on ebay that day not so much.

Andy was an erratic but brilliant poster. He has disappeared before and returned years later. This forum will have gone, or many of us will have croaked, by the time he attempts a return. He liked a feud, and winding people up, but the likes of Woofy and Yuca really should have just turned the other cheek and laughed it off. The notion of a rival Ivy forum on Dressed Well has always been laughable. For all its current feebleness Talk Ivy is an amazing archive of ideas, cultural and social history, controversy, madness and much more. Dressed Well is a few blokes talking nonsense - no spirit, no ideas, no originality. Utterly banal, it is devoid of meaning.

FlatSixC said:

'There is little interest in Ivy clothing on DW it’s true, in fact there is little interest in any sort of clothing, the most active sections concern politics and current affairs.'

I can't speak for DW as a whole, but my understanding is that it is collection of people with an interest in menswear and particularly in dressing well who enjoy talking about these things, but also about the world in general, with others who have that common sartorial interest.

Several of the posters on DW were regular posters on FNB and I believe that the Ivy Club section was opened, as you appear to clearly understand,  mainly to give FNB Talk Ivy members an alternative venue given the current technical limitations of this site.

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Runningeez.   ‘ Hasn't really gathered momentum, has it ? Which means possibly one thing no one over there is remotely interested in an Ivy Style forum. Looks like Woof and Yuca could be flogging a dead horse. Better off back here in my opinion.’


People don’t like reading stuff these days, or just ignore the bits they don’t like. Have I not said twice already in this thread that there is little interest in Ivy clothing on DW?

Why are people better off on a forum that doesn’t work properly?

You’re right there TwoRS, looking back through the old threads on here, even though you can’t read half of it, a newcomer can see that this was once a far more lively and creative place. But you can’t create much if your tools have been nicked!  Even old Barking Woofo is a bit misty eyed about Talk Ivy in his latest post on Dressed Well.

Perhaps the difference is that most of the DW posters are Americans who have, shall we say, a different sense of humour. It needs a few piss takers to shake the place up a bit!