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#51 2010-11-29 07:01:17
- Big Tony
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Re: That little New England world
"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."
#57 2010-11-30 00:17:47
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: That little New England world
g- is correct.
Words have meanings & 'Trad' has a a very specific self-created meaning.
#58 2010-11-30 12:57:21
- Big Tony
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Re: That little New England world
"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."
#60 2010-11-30 14:46:39
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: That little New England world
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#62 2010-11-30 16:20:56
- formby
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Re: That little New England world
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
Souvent me Souvient
#66 2010-11-30 19:23:06
- AQG
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Re: That little New England world
The Vision of Visions heals the Blindness of Sight.
Good to hear from you egad.
#67 2010-11-30 23:33:28
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: That little New England world
This bodes well.
Bring me more of the righteous.
My tabernacle is your tabernacle.
#68 2010-12-01 02:19:28
- meister
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Re: That little New England world
Just looking at trad and New England from an Aussie perspective ...it's like the post War look Down Under until say the 1990s when so much of Australian society was British in their taste and clothing.
Then after this we all went ethnic and started with all the European stuff which until then would have been considered "common" and vulgar" "ethnic" in the sense of "not British" ergo not "the done thing/right look". Hence guys from the 1930s/40s would all wear tweeds etc C&J with the rugged buffalo leather etc...in fact C&Js were even made in New Zealand - the most Britsh/Scottish of all the colonies.
A couple of months ago a very well dressed gent aged around late 60s/early 70s was at the bus stop near my place. He was dressed impeccably in that British Aussie WASP trad look that was already passe but which would have been his look in his 40s/50s.
I could not but look with the trad eyes of some AAAC person and think how good he looked but he was a total anachronism. The fact I was 57 meant I was still able to understand his dress code but to most latter day Aussies it would have appeared a little bizarre or costumey.
Yet 20 years ago he would have graced the pages of any newspaper as a well dressed "man about town"/boulevardier type..
How Aussie society has changed with its de-Britishizing. Maybe the same thing has happened in the US of A.
#69 2010-12-01 04:32:47
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Re: That little New England world
^^ Similar. In the U.S. up until the '90s and the tech boom, the N. East excercised substantial intelectual control over the U.S. Then in the '90s you had the rise of the internet and overnight million / billionaires. The West, particularly CA and WA and several other states rose in prominence and the leaders of this generation of business people (who became sort of rock stars) did not value the Ivy league or any of its trappings. Bill Gates is a prep school grad and Harvard drop out but you won't hear him speak about this. You would have thought that Ivy clothing would have adapted to this because it is rather casual compared with other styles but it was seen as something that needed to be discarded. A sign of individuality was wearing a t-shirt and jeans--despite the fact that everyone was doing it. The influence of the West should not be underestimated as people there are generally raised with some level of distrust for Eeast Coast conventions.
