exactly. how many serious men in the real world want to waste time messing about like us on a clothing forum & worse descend to the even lower depths of creating a 'clothing blog'? by definition the guys who go to the trouble are going to be sad, unsociable, losers with a Walter Mitty persona which usually takes the form of wanting to play a member of the landed English gentry circa 1937.

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I think what we need to break this increasingly downward spiral of negativity is perhaps a long discussion looking at the philosophy and psychology which goes behind our sartorial choices. I've been thinking about some of the things I admire, which is very similar to what most clothes hobbyists admire as well, some realise it and some don't, its drawing on the aesthetics of English aristocratic dress from at least 40 years back. Watching the new tv drama on Lord Lucan with a full costume budget, along with perusing Roubi's work at creating a new RTW range for Huntsman (which isn't wholly inspired by this same meme) made me think more deeply about this. It also made me wonder why I am aping English aristocracy in my dress when I don't come from such a background myself, don't share many similar lifestyle pursuits (thinking about country estate type clothing for hunting etc) .. so am I doing it because I admire the aesthetic, or because I associate this strata of society as 'high value' which I want to ride on the back of. I've ridiculed this practise myself but am guilty of it personally, albeit in a diluted form, ie I don't wear full tweed suits with a trilby, gloves, formal overcoat with double monks (you know the type from our ridicule on other threads) like some of our hardended fora friends but the framework for dressing is the same, I just miss out some of the accoutrements.

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If I'm not mistaken Cromps has recently re-jigged his website so that readers can no longer post their comments.

I see that, recently, Crompie has taken to dining with his tailors! In my day, you might have bought him a quick pint for a job especially well done - but dinner? I think not. Crompie (who doesn't attend fashion shows) is off to Pitti soon and that will guarantee some more side-busting shots of him on top of an Italian ice cream, sidling up to Luca. Crompie has shifted in my mind, from being an irritating, smug bore, to being really quite an entertainment.

Heck, l thought l have been posting in `inane post of the day thread'.

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I think Shoeey was being a little facetious.