I'd lay odds only southern lads are sussed.  Up here you didn't stand a cat in hell's chance of being anything like it.  Our thing then was to stand out from the crowd.  Now there is no 'our thing'.  I thought I was 'different', all those moons ago, sporting Timberland and Duffer.  Bollocks, obviously.  Just don't compete these days; can't; just - still - trying to get to know what I really like, which is soft cashmere v-necks and a fresh haircut.  John Simons has always been kind to me - they all have - but I'm no more sussed than our cat.

Having 'Nous' is, I think, the Northern version of the Southern 'Sussed'.

What goes on in the Midlands may also have a name - In fact I bet it does.

This continues to be a favourite thread of mine.  I don't lay awake at night wondering and worrying - there's no bugger round here to look me in the eye and say yea or nay. 
I'm finding blue/grey/black/white combinations are working quite nicely: knitwear, shirt, jeans, shoes.  I do like Allen Edmonds 'Lexington' with Bean denim and navy blue Falke - one of the most comfortable shoes I've owned.  I defy anyone not to feel 'sussed' in a bit of pricy Anglo-made for export cashmere.

another bit that always works for me is a navy jacket (G9, bomber, whatever) with a white based buttondown underneath (more than likely a white shirt with check pattern) so that just the top bits of the collar stick out above the navy jacket....and that's enough to take on the day in full stride

So, who is sussed? Hyancinth Bucket or Onslow?

I still want to send you back to the start of this thread to be sadistic! 

I'll do a thread on 'Nous' next...  Where's Formby?

I did have a pair of grey shoes back in 1978 or 79.  I also had a red suede pair with a stud fastening.  Both came from a very funky shop where the assistants sat around reading Jean-Paul Sartre while teds steamed in to nick the leather jackets.  All very Chris Sullivan influenced, I suppose.

I've been determined to bring this back to the forefront of the forum; partly to remind myself of why I broke my 'Groucho' rule and posted here in the first place.  Russell Street always had a way with words, didn't he?

Yes, Rip, Rig & Panic, i think it`s that whole QUESTIONING thing that is so absorbing.


I really do believe those early, Original Mod/ernist/s had that. They were a `tribe`, but they were also a tribe of individualists, to a greater degree. Perhaps?

I don`t know/ i wasn`t there!

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