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#1 2008-05-19 23:29:30

Marc Grayson
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Clothes Make The Communist Man

From 1949...

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,800681,00.html?promoid=googlep


"‘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

 

#2 2008-05-20 08:31:35

AQG
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Re: Clothes Make The Communist Man

The communists and fellow travelers I've known have always, irrespective of sex, affected a uniform of olive drab or similarly colored, dreary clothing.  They look as though they honestly expect that at any minute they will be manning the machine guns at the barricades.  With the awful dress code, it's no wonder the movement has lost steam.  I mean, really, if that's what we have to look forward to after the Revolution, I'd rather be killed in my bed.

 

#3 2008-05-20 08:56:09

Tony Ventresca
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Re: Clothes Make The Communist Man

Does this mean Brezhnev was really a "trad", with the sack suits? Nice to see that Flusser's overblown copy in his latest book is nothing new to fashion writers, so to their willingness to coin new words. (That silliness about the last button on a vest, needs to die.)

 

#4 2008-05-20 10:51:17

Fogey
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Re: Clothes Make The Communist Man

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#5 2008-05-20 10:58:03

Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Clothes Make The Communist Man

^ How does he brush his hair up at the back to do that?

 

#6 2008-05-20 11:11:23

Film Noir Buff
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Re: Clothes Make The Communist Man

For the stylish Left wing dictator in us all...

http://www.theeastisred.com/cufflinks.htm

 

#7 2008-05-20 11:27:13

AQG
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From: The Sticks
Posts: 1306

Re: Clothes Make The Communist Man

Those links would go perfectly with a Mao hat.  I have one around somewhere that my parents brought from China for me 20 years ago.  When I was on the staff at a Boy Scout camp, I took to wearing it ironically on off-duty hours.  Your average Scoutmaster, however, lacks an ironic sense of humor and complaints were made to the camp director that I was spreading commie propaganda.  In a move whose swiftness and totality the Chairman would have appreciated, my freedom of speech was curtailed.

 

#8 2008-05-20 11:29:46

Voltaire's Bastard
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Re: Clothes Make The Communist Man

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“You know that saying, 'Caesar's wife is above suspicion'? Well I put an end to all that rubbish!"..”

 

#9 2008-05-20 11:39:34

AQG
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#10 2008-05-20 11:40:39

Tony Ventresca
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#11 2008-05-20 11:47:56

AQG
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#12 2008-05-20 11:48:57

Tony Ventresca
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#13 2008-05-20 11:55:10

Voltaire's Bastard
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“You know that saying, 'Caesar's wife is above suspicion'? Well I put an end to all that rubbish!"..”

 

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