Come on Sadness.  Be a man and give it a go. Just imagine the luxury of being able to quote and post and view pics.  If you don't like it  you don't have to post.

But I am sure your insights and knowledge would be appreciated and as Woof pointed out AFS is now talking to himself on here. Do you like talking to yourself?

I did enjoy the reference to 'Mods' and their 'smooves'.  Spot on.

I'm pretty certain Social Justice Warriors roam, patrol and lurk in all dark corners of the Internet, being they dedicated to clothing forums or otherwise.  'Tis the very Nature Of The Beast in the 21st century.
Nat Hentoff, that great promoter of jazz culture, wrote a book about free speech in the United States: how Left and Right have a habit of denying one another certain basic courtesies, i.e. agreeing to disagree.  So, although Senator Goldwater despised Richard Nixon, he was a friend and admirer of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. 
But we've all seen how the likes of Ms. Rowling have been howled down and spat on for daring to advance an alternative, unorthodox point of view.
Keyboard warriors, no?

'But DW is a highly unattractive place in so many other ways, full of smugly superior gentlemen' -AFS

I've checked out DW on a number of occasions and I tend to agree with AFS. Not many posters on there that I feel I would enjoy meeting in a pub and sharing a few pints with. Mind you AFS might not want to meet me down at the local Wetherspoons either. Ha.

Purely objectively, one is taking into account everything that is being aired about online discussions.  I noted the Trump/Brexit comments elsewhere and am relieved I was doing other things during that period.  I'd have been jumped on, simply for being, in my Warholian way, uncommitted.  I long ago gave up on what an old friend of mine used to refer to as 'isms and schisms', and have read everyone from Malcolm X to Ayn Rand, taking in a lot of now unfashionable chaps like Vance Packard along the way. 
When it comes to clothing, though, I sometimes doubt whether those two magical words 'Ivy' and 'League' can now sprinkle much in the way of moondust.

Oh, I imagined Woof would simply be taking up golf, reminiscing down at the club house, then returning home to iron his vast collection of underpants.  I didn't realise he'd jumped ship, the little rascal.

Well said, R.

Posters on 'Talk Ivy' have been interacting again since last autumn.

I agree with a lot of the criticisms of DW, however I also have my issues with this forum. Consequently, and after careful calculations, I have decided to continue to post in both forums, with a posting ratio of 76.8 to 23.2, TI to DW.

Well, have you heard of a word called 'interaction ', ol' chums?

Not only do I interact on here but believe it or not on IG as well. Pop into the 21st century, you might like it.

2RS - If it did kick off outside a Wetherspoons are you sure Woof would be on the TI side? I picture Woof standing in the middle, dazzled and confused, tasering all around him and upholding the law.
Us TI boys, kitted out with work wear, would have an advantage over the DW dandies.

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I'll wear me Red Wings, and I've got a freshly shaved head. We'd take those ponces no problem.