Moers somewhat aside, women are fascinated with dandyism and doomed to never get it. I think she accidentally made one comment I agree with about opposition to the current "ism" by a plucky reassertion of the self. I dont know that women can ever really understand mens' clothing except from the concept of "attraction", notwithstanding writing to the contrary.

I am not a big fan of cool. If anything I am a proponent of the opposite- total engagement that is indifferent as to wether it "shows" or not.
If it looks easy, fine. But the point is not to try to make it look easy, but to do it the very best you are able to.

The whole "easy" thing is a vessel for so many of the ideas that are polluting our life. 1) The whole assumption that the spontaneous gesture somehow has more value than the well studied or arduously honed in one 2) The idea that caring too much necessarily reveals insecurity rather than passionate commitment, or its inverse, that the I'm too cool for school pose denotes self assurance rather than a fear of failure. 3) The notion that dirt, imperfections, etc., make things "more real" as if the whole object was to stymie our impulse to transform things into a more idealized form, or worse yet that things are better the less we try to improve upon them.

The archetypal Dandy may be the opposite of cool, good on him. He is going at it full on, no reserve.

Hepcat, you ARE cool (I mean this unironically and as a compliment) so I'm not surprised you are "in with the cool".
But by all means, let's hear it...

The Fonz was cool..

Last edited by Sammy Ambrose (2013-03-31 04:17:25)