Last edited by Prof Kelp (2009-03-06 05:07:16)

The BD was poison in England with the SR & even the SR wannabe set. It wasn't seen as remotely English by then.

... You know, sooner or later we will have to deal with how most of the English look down on most Americans... And yet wear their jeans & drink their Coke & watch their films & listen to their music and...

A real 'special' relationship!



... but not me though. i'm nice.

I'm cool with that but also still slightly inclined to crack the whip...

"Trad" is a total pastiche. An iStyle.

The London scene brings in more from Europe than the US one now does it's true, but we don't buy into 'Preppy' or 'Trad', and in fact 'Trad' was manipulated by London anyway...

So I'd still say that on the Net. London stayed truer while America drifted.

Last edited by Russell_Street (2009-03-09 10:40:10)

Jim's no Blimp, I'd swear it on a silver dollar.  But he knows what he likes.  If 'trad' or 'preppy' are media inventions, though, he'll want no part of it; and I second that emotion.  Dresswise, it may be that young America is the land of the bland; but some of the oldsters might still be relied upon.  Having said all that, when I saw that Press catalogue with the guy wearing bumfluff on his boat I began back-pedalling; and my nice lambswool jacket from Press was the object of slight suspicion in Russell Street...