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#29 2007-07-27 09:38:56
- Admiral Cod
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Re: Suddenly Seersucker
"You will find that men of style and their adherents are considered either political enemies of the people or reckless, gluttoness consumers while most live in squalor" - FNB
#31 2007-07-30 07:07:59
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Re: Suddenly Seersucker
I am wearing seersucker today. It's too humid for anything else. I wont be wearing specs because it looks like rain but I will wear a knit tie for solidarity with the Brotherhood of the Trad.
#32 2007-07-30 18:04:51
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Re: Suddenly Seersucker
so where did you get your seeksucker? surely not from England.
Just a bit of history: Joseph Alsop was an historical name when I was growing up. A cousin of FDR, Groton and Harvard. One of the first great journalists of the age, he wrote a column with his brother for 30 years. A conservative who hated Joe McCarthy, he grew up the son of a gentleman farmer in Avon, CT. He gave the celebratory after party for his favorite politician: Jack Kennedy, on the night after the Inauguration. In his autobiography he writes about the summer fashion of the WASP aristocracy {"They arrived early and bought up all the land"} in the 1920s: Seersucker suits from Brooks together with white bucks.
Just the other day I showed up in the outfit for work and was accused of being an Oh So Preppy. and so it goes.
#33 2007-07-30 18:07:52
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Re: Suddenly Seersucker
PS: last year at work nobody wore seersucker (except me). this year I am one of four. this may be not a fashion. It may be a movement.
#34 2007-07-30 23:07:55
- Horace
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Re: Suddenly Seersucker
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#35 2007-07-30 23:10:20
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Re: Suddenly Seersucker
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#36 2007-07-31 19:35:32
- tom222222
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Re: Suddenly Seersucker
seeksucker is cheap cloth. that is why it was fashionable for kids in the 1920s. that is why we wear it. we don't want expensive imitations. we want cheap cloth made for not much.
#37 2007-08-01 03:36:16
- Horace
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Re: Suddenly Seersucker
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#38 2007-08-01 08:12:23
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Re: Suddenly Seersucker
Let's also remember that sometimes things that were once cheap become discovered and then become expensive. I'll offer two examples: lobster and (wooden) shingles on a house.
TB
#39 2007-08-01 09:09:06
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Re: Suddenly Seersucker
I think the original puffy and crinkly version of seersucker is a little dated. I like the slightly narrower but still candy striped version or even the pin cord version and I have no problem with refined italian versions that make the fabric a little more city and in color combinations that are edgier. I have a grey and cream one (the grey has a definite brown influence) and I consider it a more urbane look.
Although I love the look of the classic blue and white candy stripe seersucker as very clean and refreshing, it's practical uses are extremely limited and I wonder if the originality isnt offset by the absence you might feel in it when people look at the outfit for the wrong reasons. If you dont really care, then go for it, but it is best to be forewarned that people may ask you for icecream.
#40 2007-08-02 22:35:20
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Re: Suddenly Seersucker
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.