Why would anyone defence the arse-licking bully?

Last edited by khaki sack (2008-05-23 11:53:05)

Manton wrote a very enjoyable book.  I read it in one sitting at work (ah, the pleasures of self employment).  The only clothing books I like better are Flusser's 1981 Making the Man and 1996 Style and the Man.  (I also use Flusser's books to estimate inflation since '81 and '96.)  Manton's book was just plain interesting.  Also, read the whole index of the book.  The index is a real gem.

Unlike Sator I thought the book was crap and my only consolation was that the library paid for it, rather than me. But by far the most serious charge against Manton is that he tried to get competing opinions banned. That is the action of a shit and an insecure one at that. No one has ever rebutted this on his behalf and I assume it to be true, therefore.

Otherwise he is merely another bloke who makes some poor choices but insists that he is a thing of beauty. He can't be taught because he recognises no opinion but his own and he provides little by way of value to any discussion for the same reason. He seems to regard the respect and adulation of those who contribute to Gilchrist and Style Forum as both worthwhile and an objective valuation of his own worth - a stance which is simply deluded but which touches most normal people not at all.

Poor child. Has anyone called social services?