Last edited by formby (2012-04-26 14:56:30)

Surely, it depends on what the compliment is for: if another man on the sidewalk says ''That's a well-cut suit'', that's just fine. But if he says ''Ooh I do like the way the color of the flowers in your tie are picked out in your pocket square'' then it is time to hurry off to an urgent appointment - unless, of course, you are Simon Crompton, because then you will get some color co-ordination cards out and start examining the point.

Not sure that a love of clothes is primarily a feminine characteristic - Mohammad Ali, Chris Eubank, Al Capone, Edward VII, George V, Winston Churchill, FD Roosevelt, Napoleon, George IV, A J Drexel Biddle - what a mix - all had a love of clothes and none of them is\was at all effeminate, It depends on the man and the depth of the 'love' and how much fussing and frigging goes into the exercise of dressing and, finally, whether the overall effect is Brummellesque elegance or a Cromptonesque dog's dinner.

However, it is interesting to mark that, just as the definition of marriage is about to be changed in Britain to embrace civil unions between same-sex partners, most men still probably fear being tagged as feminine or effeminate! Strange society that we live in, ter be sure, ter be sure, it is at that, Interesting too that, presumably, Elton John's civil partner will, presumably, become 'Lady John' wah! ha! ha!

Last edited by Reckless Reggie (2012-04-29 08:00:34)