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#1 2006-04-25 10:15:05
- kenperes
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"The New Black"
There was a funny comment on one of the other forums regarding the AAAC obsession with jackets sans padding. I put it to you, is totally unpadded clothing truly "the new black", or is it simply a new toy for the geeksighters (the emperor's new unpadded clothes)?
#4 2006-04-25 11:04:32
- padawan
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Re: "The New Black"
I believe that it is as much a question of comfort as one of looks.
Plus, I think that padding tends to look unnatural since - as noted - people more often than not have sloped shoulders.
#5 2006-04-25 15:02:46
- Incroyable
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Re: "The New Black"
I once saw Graydon Carter in a hideous sartorial anagram of bulging plaid dinner jacket and highly tapered trousers in which he was standing in an awkward fashion.
He looked like an overstuffed Christmas element.
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#6 2006-04-25 20:01:51
- Incroyable
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Re: "The New Black"
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#8 2006-04-26 00:11:39
- Incroyable
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Re: "The New Black"
He's all over the place. Apparently that is where out of work Santa actors with a small drink problem go.
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#9 2006-04-26 07:10:49
- Film Noir Buff
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Re: "The New Black"
I could see an occasional unpadded, completely shoulder padless jacket to wear like a sweater. But it's not something to aspire to for everday.
#10 2006-04-26 23:29:48
- Horace
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Re: "The New Black"
Mother of Jumping Jesus, those suits look horrible. Carter's writer, Hitchens often looks horrible but he's such a great wit that you forget what he's dressed like. Carter's stuff is bad. Very bad. Those trousers.
I seem to recall that Charles, who is wears A&S, doesn't have those horrible shoulder problems that Dan Rather's suits appear to have.
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#11 2006-04-27 14:15:01
- Incroyable
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Re: "The New Black"
Not to sure about the "stealth" though.
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