And now for some casual misogyny:

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?t=104035
Tell us how you REALLY feel, Edmond.

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?t=89522
A spectacularly inane thread about hats. Some college weirdo wants to know if he should take his hat off as he walks through the cafeteria. Here's a hint: take your fedora off first thing in the morning, and leave it in your closet next to your monocle and spats. Also, Edmond makes a late-thread appearance to talk about how much he hates women.

Last edited by Maximilien de Robespierre (2010-04-11 16:23:12)

On that note:

http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=175296
A discussion of high school teacher attire that is nine parts "teachers dress like slobs! Baggy pants!" and five parts batshit crazy. I suppose Styleforum would prefer to outfit public school teachers in effeminate, poorly fitting Italian double breasted suits and gigantic Alden longwings.

Apropos of Kabbaz:

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1087020&postcount=3

Alexander the Great accuses someone of shilling. I guess when he posts a 1280X800 image of one of his fine scarves wrapped around the proud bosoms of that confused Italian woman it's education, not advertising?

(from the same day: http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1086824&postcount=2)

Last edited by Gilgamesh2003 (2010-04-14 17:09:54)

This whole page is pure iGent:
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?t=103728&page=3
Just amazing. Sneezing, OCD, incredibly unfunny jokes, Kabbaz shilling away.

Also, here is the thing: I do not think that there is any reason for grown men to debate on the internet what they do when they sneeze, blow their noses, sweat, cut themselves with their pocket knives, etc. Please, do NOT tell me where you like to put your various bodily effluents. I do not care. It is not something that people with even the slightest pretension to gentility discuss.

It turns my stomach every time I hear the particularly banal and embarrassing battle-cry of the pocket square fancier "one for showin', one for blowin'." It makes me almost equally ill to see adults write the words "hank" or "hankie," both of which seem needlessly infantile; and again, since the handkerchief is a piece of cloth intended to catch bodily discharge I would be just as happy not hearing about it at all.

For that matter, I'm sick to death of all the idiotic singular/plural screwing around that the iGents do, viz., "two pair" of shoes, a wool "pant." I get the impression that they think this makes them sound knowledgeable, but to my ear it sounds more like something that someone who works in a clothing warehouse would say. There's nothing wrong with working in a clothing warehouse, of course, but there's also no reason to believe that using tradesman's jargon makes you breathlessly sophisticated and refined.