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#1 2008-04-16 20:04:58
- Gomez
- Member
- From: old trolls home
- Posts: 500
the Trad founders' thank-you thread
this thread will be to accept thank-you messages from trads, to us, the founders of your lifestyle
Last edited by Gomez (2008-04-16 20:05:23)
#2 2008-04-17 02:42:32
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: the Trad founders' thank-you thread
I'm no "Trad" but I'd like to thank you, Gomie, for the idea of doing all this.
For taking the ill-informed fantasies of "Harris" (whoever he might be) and spinning them out into a forum with such devoted followers. And not just on the "Trad" forum is the construct so powerful - Over on Styleforum as we speak we have punters defending good old "Trad" as if it was real.
I do wish we could sell them a book or a T-shirt or something, when you find mugs like these who'll buy anything it's a crime aginst Capitalism not to pick their pockets a little...
Win/win as ever with us though, eh?
Even if I can't make "Trad" smart at least we've made it exist in the form it is today. The punters will just have to educate themselves.
You wanted to take the piss, which you certainly have, & I wanted to raise the profile of these clothes which I think I've done also. I do wish that the punters were sharper though... Still you can't have it all, eh?
Btw, I am a Yankee from Virginia too... "Trad" my sainted father used to call my Ben Silver clothes back in the 80's... 
Best, as ever -
#3 2008-04-17 03:49:26
- Horace
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Re: the Trad founders' thank-you thread
You both stole the style from me. But it's okay. More anon.
Horace "Skips" Adams
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#4 2008-04-17 05:10:53
- mike
- Member
- From: Covington, KY
- Posts: 1397
Re: the Trad founders' thank-you thread
I Bow Down in GRATITUDE to ALL who have brought me knowledge of the Trad.
Praise the Trad.
Holy is the Trad.
Sacrosanct is the Trad.
You love him? He is hephaistion.
#7 2008-04-17 12:58:21
- TE Alphonsus St Bonar
- Member
- From: An elite town, dear Sir
- Posts: 31
Re: the Trad founders' thank-you thread
My dear and distinguished Sirs,
I must woefully confess to not being very informed about the Trad lifestyle, but, I have known some personages who are themselves Trad, and, given this opportunity, wish to humbly offer my gratitude for the benefactors of this particular style - though I am not myself an adherent.
I remain, good Sirs,
Your most obedient servant,
Theodore Ebeneezer Alphonsus St Bonar, Esquire.
'Friends are born, not made.'
-Professor Henry Brooks Adams.
#9 2008-04-21 12:29:07
- Harris Anton
- New member
- From: Tradberg, CT
- Posts: 2
Re: the Trad founders' thank-you thread
= And I'd have gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for you meddlin' kids.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-HOyx_FH4E
"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain." - Mark Twain