Aside from the effects on forum chatter, I wonder if much or any of this made any impression upon retail sales patterns.  Have the "trad mainstays" witnessed an increase in sales or significant influx in new buyers?  Or, have they, perhaps, sold a few more ties or ocbds here and there?  Perhaps it is something in the middle.

My own hunch about the phenomenon would be more like this.  The entire "trad" concept was a reflection of where a subset of the fashion market was heading, with the internet giving people a soapbox from which they can opine congruent thoughts.  Without the market trend, Harris would merely be blathering into the wind.  IMO, the current form of traditional dress is, in large part, a reactionary movement.  Sure some of have always dressed in similar form, as have I (but without the rules).  However, the militancy behind the movement reflects an inner angst about current cultural trends - a key trait motivating more than a few fashion styles. 

AAAC offered an outlet for this expression, and condensed it into syrup form, ready for mass distribution.  But as all good informed consumers know, that which is dehydrated, from concentrate, frozen or otherwise not whole and fresh is not really authentic or pure.  It might as well be, horror of horrors, Ralph Lauren with a logo.

Last edited by Russell_Street (2008-04-25 01:58:42)

Tee-Hee! And then my mate Dopey bumped it & so has my new mate Manton!

Shame I had to kill the thread to keep LA GUY happy... I've PM'd "Dashing1", but it's not the same as smaking the nebbish down in public. He so clearly takes all of this seriously thus proving himself to be all the things he thinks to try to accuse me of being. There are a few others who could use a humility check there too, especially those Pavlovian posters who always care enough to post to say that they do not care. If you don't care then why read & post? And I wonder why that other guy mentioned me being Jewish? Why was that worthy of mention to him? Odd because I'm not remotely Jewish. My only Jewish family connections go waaay back on my Mother's side and even then only by marriage. My mother's family also provides my distant Russian and Irish connections too...

Oy! To be sure, to be sure, Comrades. To be an English Gentleman is to be a wonderful patchwork.

J.

ABC stuff, but you are kind, Sir.

Now that the story is 'out there' there's no excuse for playing the "Trad" game in its current form any more. Those who do are going to look mighty... Well, how would you describe a person like that?

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Lacking in Knowledge?

J.