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#1 2013-08-17 06:22:58
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"Dressing Well / Being Well Dressed" ?
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#2 2013-08-17 07:17:13
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Re: "Dressing Well / Being Well Dressed" ?
I'm thinking there is some kind of gestalt effect at play with the phrase, but pinning it down is not easy. Plus, clothing (like any art form) is so subjective and enmeshed in culture, that there can be no substantive "this is well dressed, always" statement.
As to the last question, I'll have to think upon it some more before responding. Cocking my head from side to side is not working.
#3 2013-08-17 08:57:49
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Re: "Dressing Well / Being Well Dressed" ?
I believe it was Baudelaire who suggested that Democracy was the enemy of being well dressed and/or dandyism. It takes some attention and upkeep. Can everyone do it well? Most in the USA will suggest it's all about money, even the ones who will drop a half a mill on a car. But it is rather like asking can every man be a talented musician or artist or lawyer or anything that requires passion, application, aptitude, imagination.
And of course, the vast majority of men cant compete and would suggest that "appropriate" is the way to go.
#4 2013-08-17 09:38:03
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Re: "Dressing Well / Being Well Dressed" ?
Isn't the distinction between being well-dressed and merely well-clothed.
I came up to see her sometimes.
#5 2013-08-17 10:40:12
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.
#6 2013-08-17 12:49:11
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Re: "Dressing Well / Being Well Dressed" ?
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#7 2013-08-17 13:19:26
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#8 2013-08-17 14:50:18
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Re: "Dressing Well / Being Well Dressed" ?
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#9 2013-08-17 16:45:54
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#10 2013-08-18 04:00:19
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Last edited by formby (2013-08-18 04:01:11)
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#11 2013-08-18 05:27:00
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Re: "Dressing Well / Being Well Dressed" ?
No, English is not my native tongue, so some odd idiom/grammar can happen.
#12 2013-08-18 05:45:48
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I came up to see her sometimes.
#13 2013-08-18 10:46:09
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Re: "Dressing Well / Being Well Dressed" ?
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#14 2013-08-18 10:47:38
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Re: "Dressing Well / Being Well Dressed" ?
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#15 2013-08-18 10:49:13
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Re: "Dressing Well / Being Well Dressed" ?
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#16 2013-08-18 13:35:28
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Re: "Dressing Well / Being Well Dressed" ?
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#17 2013-08-18 13:55:26
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Re: "Dressing Well / Being Well Dressed" ?
Lol...Dudley signs on (skip to about 4:30 for the lol):
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/06/12/medgar-evers-widow-jim-crow-is-alive-in-a-brooks-brothers-suit/
#18 2013-08-18 20:48:16
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#19 2013-08-19 00:23:39
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Re: "Dressing Well / Being Well Dressed" ?
No, English is not my native tongue, so some odd idiom/grammar can happen.
#21 2013-08-19 04:07:38
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#24 2013-08-19 04:32:11
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#25 2013-08-19 04:48:26
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Re: "Dressing Well / Being Well Dressed" ?
Britain or England?