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#101 2011-07-04 08:15:11
- Kingstonian
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Re: Brown shoes don't make it ?
It could be a great look for going to Brentford games.
I don't think Pooley or Omally wore anything special though. You would just need to say 'God Save All Here!' when first entering a pub and own a magic, talking bicycle.
Hugo Rune on the other hand:-
''Rune's physical appearance is the most obvious detail about him that makes him stand out from the crowd, being described as a large, bald man with a tattooed pentagram upon his head, of great weight and colossal hands, the fingers of which are covered with silver rings covered with occult symbols. His trademark clothing is a suit of green Boleskine tweed, brown size-twelve Oxford shoes, and several watches, giving him the appearance of someone from the 1930s while still leaving him with a great sense of charisma.''
I would not mind being the Professor Slocombe character with his faithful servant Gammon. I have often wondered which particular house in The Butts in Brentford the professor was supposed to live in.
#102 2011-07-04 09:15:36
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i may have not bothered to read the last few pages, but regarding Gilard, shes had speech training since becoming PM, but its still very average, had to analyse it, an assignment for communications, interestingly, she was a partner at a decent law firm. i thought law firms were still (or at that stage) a little to 'boys clubby' to offer partnership to someone like that.
#103 2011-07-04 11:36:50
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#111 2011-07-05 01:11:02
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#115 2011-07-05 06:26:15
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Re: Brown shoes don't make it ?
The irony of the "let's go back in time" crowd, both the sartorial and political versions, is that in the goode olde days with rigid class systems and impermeable economic barriers most men were slaves as much as women. Granted, men were a few rungs higher up the ladder than women, but that's like saying I get to clean the king's balls while you have to clean the king's ass.
FNB - Talk to more women about this as I think you will find they dress for group acceptance as much as men, just more subtly (less of the 'military uniform' ridigity).
Sator - Keep it coming.
"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
"When it comes to infidelity, broken families, and reckless fatherhood, the underclass are amateurs."
#116 2011-07-05 07:10:18
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#120 2011-07-05 16:25:05
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Re: Brown shoes don't make it ?
I'm in London right now for my summer vacation. Literally as I typed I see men wearing navy pinstripes suit with brown shoes. That must be the very in-thing in London.
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#122 2011-07-05 21:13:01
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#124 2011-07-06 08:21:32
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Re: Brown shoes don't make it ?
I don't object at all to the notion of following trends or of taking bespoke into the future. Jack Buchanan is a sartorial hero of mine and was always very up to date. I don't like Sator's expressed intention to take bespoke forward by reference to the nutty designs seen on the RTW catwalks: suits with shorts and even skirts. As for 'rules' there are reasonably established customs (not really rules at all) such as not wearing brown shoes and navy suits. While we note them we have to decide for ourselves what to wear and when and most people don't give a 'rat's ass' (US spelling and pronunciation) about any of this anyway. One thing is for sure: iGents do not wear untrimmed full beards and tinted, tropical reading glasses; nor, I suspect, do they wear socks with sandals...Anyway, I do not intend to fall out with Sator because he is a Good Egg.
I have never knowingly supported steam-punks and goths. I certainly don't think that period costume has a place outside museums and I am not the originator of the phrase 'permanent style' as it seems a nonsense to me in that 'style' is a personal virtue and lives and dies with each person; I am not sure what else is meant except, maybe, that men's suits have remained much the same in substance for a hundred years or so. I just don't know why thre 1930s are seized upon by iGents as the 'golden age' of modern men's dress: the trousers were terrible, baggy numbers for a start; although it is certainly true that, across the board, taking time to dress well for each event each day most certainly declined after WWII, for fairly obvious economic and social reasons.
Sator, I did noty see your messages at first but anyway, let's be friendly Buffers and Cutters and Tailors again! But I still detest the Beckhams.
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