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#1 2008-03-25 08:45:34
- The_Shooman
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Question for trads (Oxxford).
What's the story with Oxxford. Sure the suits look as boring as bat-shit, but does it have any foundations or resemblance to Trad?
My tailor says the style is more English than anything else.
Opinions?
#2 2008-03-25 08:53:37
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Re: Question for trads (Oxxford).
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#4 2008-03-25 09:30:00
- The_Shooman
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Re: Question for trads (Oxxford).
l feel like registering with AAAC and asking these guys WTF are they on (l want some 
). lt's like a big club for men who have never grown up. As try-hard as it gets. lt's pitiful, extremely disturbing and extremely embarrassing that our fellow man can behave in such a way. Maybe they are robots, or maybe not of this world.
l'd love to say it, but it's not worth getting banned after 1 post.
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#6 2008-03-25 09:34:10
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Re: Question for trads (Oxxford).
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#7 2008-03-25 09:40:45
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Re: Question for trads (Oxxford).
The deeply committed 'trad' people I've met in real life tend to have huge chips on their shoulders. They dress the way they do because they wish they were part of the imaginary class they envy.
#9 2008-03-25 10:00:46
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Re: Question for trads (Oxxford).
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#10 2008-03-25 10:01:46
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Re: Question for trads (Oxxford).
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"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
#11 2008-03-25 10:04:28
- mafoofan
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Re: Question for trads (Oxxford).
^^^ Eh, I wouldn't call Oxxford 'English'. They're everything and nothing. In a positive light, that means you get a lot of variety. In a negative light, it means the resulting garmet is somewhat of a mutt.
#12 2008-03-25 10:06:58
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Re: Question for trads (Oxxford).
Louis Auchincloss has a bit somewhere in one of his short stories about the Gens Waspa not forgiving Roosevelt, but really missing the point that he was the last one of them and that they would then go extinct after him.
A message which, I am sure, the intertrads have yet to fully internalize.
Curiously enough, Auchincloss has cachet aplenty and should be easy to find in thrift shops...
ETA:
http://www.fazieditore.it/img/autori/auchinclossthumb%20copia.jpg
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/partypictures/2006/11_16_06/images/frenchamerican/24.jpg
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#14 2008-03-25 10:15:27
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Re: Question for trads (Oxxford).
That the aspiration is directed towards an extinct class, existing in antoher time and space, not somewhere up above.
The travel is in space-time to a parallel reality. Hence, there is no nobilitas to be acquired thorugh the parrotry.
A point which most here get, may I add.
#15 2008-03-25 10:15:37
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Re: Question for trads (Oxxford).
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#16 2008-03-25 10:18:55
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Re: Question for trads (Oxxford).
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#17 2008-03-25 10:20:19
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#20 2008-03-25 10:30:59
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Re: Question for trads (Oxxford).
I wouldn't characterize Oxxford as Trad nor European, just sort of American in cut. I own a couple Oxxford suits in what is supposed to be a European cut, however they don't really look or feel European. It's kind of a roomy, generic cut, nothing special. Feel free to mention my name at Oxxford, although you'll just elicit blank stares.
"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde
#21 2008-03-25 10:32:09
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#24 2008-03-25 10:45:27
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Re: Question for trads (Oxxford).
But why call the clothes "Trad"?
They never were before.
Do you call them that to identify yourself with AAAT? What does the name mean to you? Tradition?
Just interested.
J.
#25 2008-03-25 10:46:50
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Re: Question for trads (Oxxford).
"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