Mad Men was an interesting show but the clothing never impressed me. it could be that the mood of the show and the retro promise of restoring lost power for men might have created a desire to emulate the dress but the clothes themselves weren't that hot.
I did think about that quite a bit the other week. And I think ying/yang doesn't work. The introduction of a third number does. For instance with notes or colours two can oppose each other but a third may compliment both...in this instance you have the idea of relative tensions and partnerships I know in Taoism the ying/yang further splits into subsections.. like a colour wheel may..amd then what we are really left with are the harmonic relationships of wavelengths for the most part.
Or should I say ratios..
Banana Republic did a Mad Men tie-in a couple of years ago. The clothes were terrible.
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Middle aged spread is not inevitable, the right diet free from biscuits and lashings of proletariat beer reinforced with exercise should do the trick. But there comes a time, when the metabolism starts to slow right down and then you have to make the jump to a different calorie intake or you're going to look like someone from Hogarth's Beer Street.
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That's the general assumption - but if sufficient people think differently maybe society will reevaluate. The concept of rejecting contemporary fashion to replicate previous eras is afaik a recent phenomenon that appeared for the very first time in the 1970s, and has continued in various forms to date. As such the concept is too new and is far too confined to a tiny number of people to have made any impact on general consciousness. The concept is probably still unknown in most parts of the world, and it will probably always be confined to a tiny number of people, or it may even disappear, but you never know. As I said earlier - I would like to see a shirt that beats the Brooks of the past.
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Fashion always references the past. That's a different phenomenon to a small number of people deciding to reject the fashion of the day to recreate the past. How many of those women in 1960 were actually fascinated with authentic replication of the 1930s rather than following fashion? If those women were 30s reenactors, most would have continued after the fashion world moved on, yet if they did, they don't seemed to have left any sort of mark. For example, there are photos of teds in the 70s, mods (of the retro variety) in the 80s, etc, but I've never seen a photo of people in the 60s trying to recreate the 30s.
Boo yah.