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#1 2007-10-11 11:05:22
- jack_sparrow
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The John Cheever Collar Trick -
Buy 'Home Before Dark' by Susan Cheever & check out the photos of her Pa.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/105-2440718-0506814?initialSearch=1&url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=home+before+dark&x=13&y=17
OCBD under a Shetland with the collar points unbuttoned & (his) left collar point worn outside the crew neck whilst the right is worn tucked inside. He does this in shot after shot over a period of years.
Casual.
Relaxed.
And quite self-confident too, I think - A dweeb would be too fussy to play with asymetry like this.
The book is very good too, but I love the photos especially.
(This is the kind of quality I could have added to the Trad forum tonight if I was already in there...)
j.
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#2 2007-10-11 16:23:23
- Tyto
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Re: The John Cheever Collar Trick -
Reminds me of the WFB collar trick--one side buttoned, the other unbuttoned. In his case, though, it seems more contrived.
#3 2007-10-11 19:31:37
- Coolidge
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Re: The John Cheever Collar Trick -
It's a nice quirk but almost has to be an accident to be done without looking a little contrived. Not that this doesn't happen: In fact, I'm absolutely sure I've (indeed all of us have, I bet) done this by accident, probably with those big buttonholes on the Mercer...one corner gets dislodged, I pull off the sweater, put it back and and *floop* one corner is out and one in.
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#4 2007-10-12 08:18:45
- jack_sparrow
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Re: The John Cheever Collar Trick -
"However, it is we of the moderator corps that
ended up handling the hundreds of Post Reports your previous - and
legendary - trolling managed to generate."