I'm not sure if you hooked me or the idea of "trad" has you hooked.  In either case, I enjoy our banter.

Of course, I changed what TNSIL stood for and continue to participate in the evolution of "trad" just as you participate in the evolution of ivy league style in England - how else can one wear cordury shirts, jeans, and beefroll loafers and still call it an ivy look? 

As you often say, ivy/trad for everyone! 

You have Jivey Ivy and we have Trippy Trad.  You have Rumpled Ivy and Horace created Tattered Trad. 

You have endless pictures of Steve McQueen and we have endless pictures of guys who actually wore ivy league style (I like McQueen myself, but he's hardly a poster boy for ivy style). 

You talk about Chensvold/J Simons/and the guys who used to work at 2 Russell Street incessently and we actually talk about ivy style. 

It's all part of the fun, isn't it?  The big, wide world of trad/ivy/tnsil.  It's all authentic and inauthentic at the same time - the "real world" and the "internet" linking two guys across the Atlantic who like natural shoulder "garments."

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The simple thing is I've seen photos of Jimmy, and the chap can dress, I've seen albeit one photo of CC, and get the impression, he is a clothes trainspotter, and the use of the word style on his blog title is very tenuous indeed.

Ideally we could, I believe in that, and all it would take is burying the hatchet, I feel though from the last two - three years, there is a long road to travel. I don't like the idea of clothes being anything other than products of design. If you tie into that, your ego, self-worth you are on a slippery slope, the genius is in those that make the clothes, and those that manage to put them together in a way we all love to look at, everything else falls by the wayside of fandom. That's what I think is so pathetic, and the reason Jimmy gets away with it, is because he can walk and talk. (maybe with the aid of a stick) but I like what he wears, and how he wears it.

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