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#326 2008-07-21 13:07:12
- formby
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#327 2008-07-21 13:42:11
- Film Noir Buff
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
Formby,
that I agree with. Many of the weaving practices for fabric have gotten better. Demands change and just because something isnt offered anymore for an igent to covet doesn't mean anyone else cares.
That's why you hear about imbeciles digging in Huddersfield warehouses for 100 year old lengths of cloth in circus patterns that have dried up and become brittle. Not to mention, no one probably wanted them back in the summer of 1919 and no one wants them now.
Sometimes i think this over lament about the lost golden age is more about the way someone defines where they think they are now than where everything else really belongs. I know J. Press has brought back an item whined about by a certain "less advanced" forum's members only to see it gather dust on the shelf when it was apparent no one would buy it. Apparently there is comfort in having other people preserve your past.
And as for cars, whenever they switched over to cpu transmission is basically when the car became a dependable and awesome machine.
#328 2008-07-21 17:17:49
- Marc Grayson
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
"‘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
#329 2008-07-21 17:32:17
- Marc Grayson
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
"‘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
#330 2008-07-21 17:44:20
- Marc Grayson
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
Why would someone curse out his boxer tailor for refusing to kowtow to his every whim and then pretend on the fora that the tailor did not fire him and that he's still a client, when in reality he no longer is a client.
Why would that same someone subsequently badmouth his now ex-tailor for raising his prices and iinconveniencing him by relocating to upstate New York when the tailor would rather gouge his own eyeballs out with a hot poker than take that certain someone back as a client anyway?
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"‘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
#331 2008-07-21 17:50:57
- Marc Grayson
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Why would someone insult his tailor by having suits made by other tailors and then, realizing the suits are botched, taking those botched suits to his current tailor for fixing?
Why would someone then insult his tailor's wife by suggesting she's a mere flunky taking orders for expensive bespoke Italian shirts?
"‘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
#332 2008-07-21 17:55:20
- Marc Grayson
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Why would someone call himself out on the fora for the badly fitting suit I mentioned, without my actually indicating whose suit it was, and then proceed to have an offline mental breakdown after linking himself to the suit?
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"‘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
#333 2008-07-22 01:23:09
#334 2008-07-22 01:30:16
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#335 2008-07-22 01:40:22
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#336 2008-07-22 02:19:20
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
My favorite - slim fit, both in shirts (I like mine with a generous amount of cloth around, to quote a guy in T&A store on Jermyn street "Sorry sir, we do shirts for gentlemen, not young lads!) or the "slim fit" suit - in my book "the deceased one was smaller" suit!
See that on a discussion that I had with a young gentleman:
http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?p=1182687#post1182687
#337 2008-07-22 06:16:40
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#338 2008-07-22 06:58:45
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
"I'd give all the Champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him(Eric Cantona) in a big European match at Old Trafford." George Best(1946 -2005)
#339 2008-07-22 07:19:56
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Because they think it is drape 
, or just because the consort of Posh Spice wears them. I like chunky shoes with heavy fabrics, but also I like smoothies as the G&G (even if I think that they are too "osees", as also Berlutti, etc.) The main problem is that our fashion raw models today are not gentlemen, but footballers (Girls Ball games players), third-hand actors, etc. SR big houses, or Parisian, or Italian houses had "head-cutters" not "designers", people that were dressing gentlemen not their phantasms!
#340 2008-07-22 07:22:20
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#341 2008-07-22 07:27:44
- Marc Grayson
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
"‘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
#342 2008-07-22 07:43:29
- koolhistorian
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
Well I was tempted to give to a very young guy who was asking the SF what to buy for his college wardrobe that the standard answer on SF would hand been: Hoodie from Rubinacci (with spalla camicia) or at least with floating canvas, tees from Anna Matuzzolo, shots at Ambrosini (or Kiton) and sneakers by G&G, properly antiquated! And the compulsory knitted tie! I know I am mean, but there is a huge wave of copycat in the SF, with people that do not know that the first rule of elegance is to be balanced!
#343 2008-07-22 07:45:58
#344 2008-07-22 07:54:12
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As a postscript to my previous post, Zegna, which I don't believe is based in Naples, is doing spalla camicias...
http://www.esquire.com/style/obsession-of-the-month/obsession0607
"‘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
#345 2008-07-22 08:12:06
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#346 2008-07-22 08:15:43
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#347 2008-07-22 08:26:47
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The article appeared also in the No 1 of the Romanian Esky edition under the name of "The Italian shoulder explained" LOL
#348 2008-07-24 08:27:40
#349 2008-07-24 08:46:20
- The_Shooman
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lf you wore a full-on nipped in waist in Melbourne, you would risk being punched up. Wouldn't be a good move.
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