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#1 2008-07-20 10:42:05
- Marc Grayson
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The Suit Maketh The Man
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article734484.ece
"‘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
#3 2008-07-20 11:11:08
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Re: The Suit Maketh The Man
I see he recommends Huntsman.
Good writer but he worries a little too much about casual clothing. Casual clothing, worn nicely can look good too. If that man's jeans were custom, his sneakers prada and his shirt tucked in with a stylish belt, what's the problem?
#4 2008-07-20 11:45:17
- formby
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Re: The Suit Maketh The Man
Ah, the one and only A.A Gill. He and his table guest, who I think it was Joan Collins, famously got frog marched out of Gordon Ramsey's restaurant after he wrote a bad review of Ramsey's cuisine (Didn't like Ramsey's version of the fried Mars bar perhaps 
). He's known too also have a ill concealed contempt for we English. A Scotsman hating the English? surely not.....!!!!!!!!
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/17/arts/19book.php
This comment I thought especially insightful...
'..."For a generation now," he writes, the English "have gone from making history to curating it," looking backward not forward, dwelling in the past rather than "the salted present."...'
Sad, but unfortunately true and as an Englishman and very proud of my country's achievements it pains me too admit it.
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#6 2008-07-20 14:37:09
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Re: The Suit Maketh The Man
Gill's one of my favorite columnists for the Times. Great stuff that goes way back.
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#7 2008-07-20 15:07:26
- formby
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Re: The Suit Maketh The Man
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#8 2008-07-20 18:34:18
- Marc Grayson
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Re: The Suit Maketh The Man
"‘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
#10 2008-07-21 10:33:59
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Re: The Suit Maketh The Man
I've read it -- s'funny. Helps if you aren't much impressed by the English to begin with ... 
#12 2008-07-21 11:48:10
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Re: The Suit Maketh The Man
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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