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#101 2010-07-15 11:30:55
- zuckermandl
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To me, 'Sussed' brings to mind an incredibly lame song from the late 70s.
Got yer parka? 
#102 2010-07-15 11:40:14
- Hard Bop Hank
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I think that was somewhat taking the piss, though... even if they were somehow involved in the mod revival scene, too...
“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
#103 2010-07-15 11:41:39
- Hard Bop Hank
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“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
#104 2010-08-02 10:21:39
- Rip Rig & Panic
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Bump: because I like to re-read bits of this one. Key to the nature of 'Talk Ivy'.
#105 2010-08-02 14:06:52
- Sowtondevil
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'Sussed?'
Imagine a rather down-at-heel secondary school just off the New Kent Road - not far from the Elephant & Castle in South London. It was called Paragon School. It is now a housing development. But way back then in the 1960s when the school was active, the majority of 'students' were burgeoning villains. Studying for GCE and CSE examinations did not feature in their view of the world, south of the River. Certificates of Secondary Education were for others and were denounced (and pronounced) as "Suss-tificates" on the basis that they appeared to be awarded only to those clever bastards who could "suss things out".
#106 2010-08-03 08:11:02
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'Sussed': a complete indifference to the external world, yet without being callous. An attachment to the jazz life, to aspects of visual culture, to the natural world in its complexity. A cerebral insularity. An appreciation of colour, texture, provenance, silhouette, lines, heft.
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#108 2010-08-03 11:25:32
- Rip Rig & Panic
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External as in the masses, natural as in... nature... Just doodling...
#109 2010-08-03 11:30:52
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Oh, heft. The 'heavier side of Ivy', mostly as expressed through cordo wingtips.
#110 2010-08-21 01:40:06
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In order to be truly 'sussed', never give a fuck about anything other than what matters.
Eliminate all inessentials.
#111 2010-08-21 13:28:16
- Chris_H
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The older you get the less all this sort of stuff seems to matter....
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#114 2010-08-25 13:35:18
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Interesting that the clothes can become 'more important' even as they're growing 'less important'. It's never going to be a matter of not caring - quite the reverse, as one tries to track down that very specific polo shirt or raincoat. Just because there's a gradual blending in it does not mean the clothing has suffered relegation to the Fourth Division, as it were; and simplicity does not equate to dull.
#115 2010-08-25 13:46:40
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I'd say it's definitely a plus having lost the urge to be competitive somehow. It should be enough to be in the safe knowledge one knows a thing or two about clothing in general and what suits one in particular so as to be able to just rely on one's personality shining through a basically neutral image rather splendidly 
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#118 2011-09-02 02:06:54
- Taylor McIntyre
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It certainly got the online Americans in a spin...
#119 2011-09-02 03:04:25
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It did, perhaps because The Look in the UK has a narrower focus. It also, however, tends to suffer from the youth-cult hangover.
#120 2011-09-02 03:14:34
#121 2011-09-02 03:45:40
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I didn't express that terribly well. I only meant we don't do 'Trad' etc.
#122 2021-10-08 12:00:34
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I've just been smiling over this. Chris_H knew what he was talking about. John Gall was either busy making his living or being 'sussed'. I'm less 'sussed' than ever, stumbling over the cobbles in this hilly little town in my Astorflex and wondering when my back is going to stop hurting. 'Coffin-Dodger Ivy'.
#123 2021-10-08 12:04:26
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It may be different for you but I found wearing gunboats most days to be very beneficial for my back. Slipons and crepe soles for occasional use only. It really sorted my back out. Prior to that I was wearing loafers most days and it was causing problems.
some sort of banal legitimacy
#124 2021-10-08 12:13:49
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I suppose gunboats do keep your back straighter. But, oh, brother, old bongo player, how my feet ached walking around Nottingham the other week.
This sockless thing, though - I just can't imagine I'd get home without my feet and ankles bleeding. Sticking plaster Ivy. I don't know how Gibson does it.
#125 2021-10-08 12:36:08
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Better feet ache than back ache.
Sockless is probably top of my ivy I dislike list. It's a bit like sellotape on Weejuns: fine if you're a student, on campus, in the early 1960s.
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some sort of banal legitimacy