That thread was never going to last.....

Yes, whatever happened to it? I was looking forward to expanding on it.

Kicking against the Prigs,

A.C.

Not a good question.  Why do you need half the threads posted by Terry Lean?  "I'm so drunk", "Too Trad fo' Trad", &c. 

Just seems like removing threads all together is rather like the oft-decried actions of other message boards.

Just a thought.

TB

Last edited by Admiral Cod (2007-07-26 19:25:48)

In so much as he stole Horace's work & passed it off as his own. More of a thief than a troll?

Film Noir Buff wrote:
Terry Lean wrote:
Film Noir Buff wrote:
Theres no end to the wonder. People lamenting the fact that people are lamenting what people are lamenting, it's very abstract.

Maybe this returns Trad to its Japanese roots?
The exquisite twists & turns of it all...

that's waht ialways thought Trad was, the japanese fad fetish about the English Etonesque/Oxbridge and American Prep School/Ivy league look. Whatever the name really should be here, there was a time when the clothes signaled that you came from a certain background, those clothes werent chosen by accident. I can only say that because this was my personal experience, that the good guys wore Brooks three buttons and OCBDs and the smarmy guys wore the designer stuff. It was always altered depending on one's lifestyle, crested blazers were worn by college students tongue-in-cheek because the fuddy duddy's wore it seriously. OCBDs were worn with fatigues. As far as I know Paul Staurt was always taken very seriously, was never considered too expensive and was basically the grown up branch of the look. In any event, even Brooks made shirts for my dad with English collars in English fabrics which he wore with two button or three button suits with a natural shoulder. The cordovan shoe thing is bizarre considering black with laces was considered the best shoe choice for biz.


Maybe they do belong to a lifestyle as well but the fans of it are taking a snapshot as if it always was and will be the same.

I agree with this.

Moreover, what Skip/Chauncey/Thatcher/Harris/Calvin or whatever his name was offered as a vision (and I think that vision was in part valid as a "look" for certain days/times) it was pretty much perverted from the outset.  Moreover, in addition to often lifting my posts wholesale, Skip had the peculiar tic of never being able to keep his story straight, or back tracking so much that he criss-crossed himself.  Some tried to make a dogma of his stray comments.

What you got then, was a bunch of guys like Preacher and Patrick taking on a "style" that was pretty much a mixture of confusion.  So what.  It doesn't hurt anybody.


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Last edited by jack_sparrow (2007-07-27 09:08:22)

Would the title "what happened to the jcusey head" be more interesting?

What they need is an "Official Handbook". Another one.

Charismatic authority:
Charismatic authority grows out of the personal charm or the strength of an individual personality (see cult of personality for the most extreme version). Charismatic regimes are often short-lived, seldom outliving the charismatic figure that leads them. For a charismatic regime to survive the rule of the individual personality, it must transform its legitimacy into a different form of authority. An example of this would be Augustus' efforts to create the position of the Roman principate and establish a ruling dynasty, which could be viewed as a shift to a traditional form of authority, in the form of the principate that would exist in Rome for more than 400 years after his death.


Trad without a central figurehead to whom all the would be Trads can look is an interesting phenomenon. It is drifting. What you can now observe on the Trad forum is a lot of floundering around. I enjoy those posters who strive especially hard to keep the faith. Their names are well known. They fight as hard as they can to enforce the rules of the cult and to keep it all going. Their problem is that they do not know the rules. Harris must have taken his copy of The Official Preppy Handbook away with him, leaving his children alone in the dark. What will happen next will be very interesting.