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#3251 2011-10-13 16:22:34
- Gilgamesh2003
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#3252 2011-10-13 19:10:37
- captainpreppy
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#3253 2011-10-13 19:15:05
- Gilgamesh2003
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I have from time to time danced under the name "Woodcock" but I have never hunted them. I hadn't said anything other than "these plus-fours are very silly," and this remark was not even directed to her. She was talking about a country club called Timberdoodle:
http://www.timberdoodleclub.com/
It may be very nice - I have never visited.
#3254 2011-10-14 14:08:48
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#3255 2011-10-14 20:11:30
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#3256 2011-10-15 13:37:05
- formby
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Well, the 3 piece suit has 'em all excited over there in Styless-forum land.
http://www.styleforum.net/t/253600/why-no-love-for-the-three-piece-suit
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#3257 2011-10-15 14:34:03
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#3258 2011-10-15 15:13:57
#3259 2011-10-15 15:34:06
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#3260 2011-10-15 16:21:05
#3261 2011-10-15 16:45:18
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#3262 2011-10-15 17:11:20
#3263 2011-10-15 18:31:18
- Popeye Doyle
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You have to consider that Alden supplies iconic tradulicious models to the Brothers Brooks, while AE supplies shoes to Zappos. Otherwise your statement about their inferiority when compared to even the most pedestrian English, and probably quite a few Italian, makers seems accurate.
"All in all they are a pretty sleazy bunch."
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#3264 2011-10-15 21:23:15
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#3265 2011-10-16 04:46:21
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#3266 2011-10-16 06:36:50
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The EG factory sale
http://www.styleforum.net/t/270032/anyone-going-to-the-eg-factory-sale-saturday
Involves people thousands of miles away touting for info on unseen shoes in their size. There is also mention of 'jonesing' which is probably some unspeakable American practice - possibly an obscure foot fetish.
Ends up with a complaint about how rude Edward Green are now that Danny DeVito is the store manager and wistful reflections on good service and Jermyn Street as it used to be.
#3267 2011-10-16 07:05:10
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"I'd give all the Champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him(Eric Cantona) in a big European match at Old Trafford." George Best(1946 -2005)
#3268 2011-10-16 10:03:03
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#3269 2011-10-16 10:14:00
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If you aren't seeing through all three eyes at once day and night you are up shit creek without a paddle. The Shooman
#3270 2011-10-16 11:55:44
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#3271 2011-10-16 12:12:40
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#3272 2011-10-16 14:57:45
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#3273 2011-10-16 16:12:50
- Maximilien de Robespierre
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#3274 2011-10-16 18:50:38
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Gil - reasonable effort, as far as it goes.
I assume you posted here for peer review and scientific checking?
My initial feedback (I haven't finished the complete analysis - am waiting for my Post Doc students to run the numbers), but I'd venture to suggest you have over simplified the work required to fit a shoe.
In particular might I point out that you seem to have neglected to mention the great Italian Shoe Artisan, inventor of Spella Checca and pragmatic Mathematician - Fibonacci. When it comes to shoe length, I'm sure other scholars here will agree with me when I say that a thorough knowledge of the Fibonacci numbers is central.
Known as the The Golden Rule or cut the Fibonacci is the age old "secret" that enables the Italians to achieve not only great fitting shoes but great looking shoes with that insouciance sprezz that all strive for.
To do this take a shoe length and divide it into two parts, L (Long part) and S (short part). We want the ratio of short part (toe to ball of foot) to long part (heel to ball of foot) be the same as the ratio of long part to the whole line (W). In other words, as the short part is to the long part, so is the long part to the whole line.
S:L = L:W
From this can be solved that L = (√5 + 1)/2 × S or L ≈ 1.618 × S. This number (√5 + 1)/2 is Phi.
So if you divide the line so that heel to ball part is Phi times (about 1.62) the length from ball to toe, you've divided it in the golden section (or golden cut).
And the golden ratio is the ratio Phi:1.
#3275 2011-10-16 19:01:26
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errata: Page 1 Abstract
One of my students has just pointed out that the original Fibonacci University Shoe Heel Institute Theory (FU Shit) was in fact the ratio of width of shoe, at widest point, to length of shoe. My misinterpretation of length to toe ball heel etc was a result of inferior translation from the original latin. nb:: the original translation was performed by one of my female PhD students of The Art of Bunga Bunga