I like the English type too. I agree with a lot said in that article. However, I am always curious why people attracted to this space seem to need to strictly define everything. Clothing attracts a lot of control freaks and a lot of what makes dressing elegant, stylish and admirable is at odds with "control" and "anxiety". Dressing is about appropriate but it's also about flow and ease.

Men who wear suits without ties think they look cool and individual but instead they merely look uniform, rumpled and expressionless. The antithesis of dandiacal warmth.

Confusion abounds. I get the impression that middle aged men think suits age them and other men. The younger characters both male and female consider suits and ties to be youthful. Clothing seems to carry both generational impressions as well as innate ones.

I'm getting some made at Van Buck, fabric will hopefully be off to them next week, I think they'll be disgusted when they see the sample tie turn up to copy, an American mid-c Rooster, flimsy by UK standards. But just how I like a tie!

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