It's not so much paranoia as caveat emptor.

I walk out to my mailbox and some insurance agent is calling me by my first name.

I go online and some barely 18 y/o named Malinda is offering to screw me if I buy her $25 CD.

The guy who's shirt lies mouldering away with Yul Brynner, the responder who never explained his

distaste for my violet on black Oxford weave tie claim arcane knowledge and then let people wander lost

in some Da Vinci code riddle between that $25 CD and Saville row expecting their personal income to

somehow benefit by being smug and embracing a code of silence that puts Masonry to shame.

Is it any wonder, certain online personaes and websites get treated like that insurance salesman's junk mailer?

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?t=93053

This post is disturbing on several levels.

I admire vintage clothing. But I wonder if it was a zenith followed by  decline, or just a period of stability when men dresssed like men, 'the good old days' so to speak. I think back on other periods painfully documented in movies and TV series with extremes like skinny to obese tie widths and believe
a 'classic' form does exist. But, is it static or open to creativity?

Last edited by formby (2009-04-09 12:06:43)

If Lost Angeles possesses any redeeming qualities ( we do) it is a abundance of vintage clothing resources.
The fashion Institute is a school of design with incredible collections of clothing, home items etc.

Periodic sales of the studios wardrobe collections has released thousands of period items.

There have been many outlets selling surplus studio items.

Matt Deckard belongs to a group of period dress aficiandos who gather for ballroom dances, a safer
activity than meeting up with a group of civil war reenactors arguing with a lesbian witch's coven and
a boy scout jamboree overbooked in a campground.

And lastly, if you can crawl over the junk, many garage  and estate sales are a treasure hunt for vintage items.

Last edited by Chris Kavanaugh (2009-04-09 12:48:57)

Dumbest thread ever. This bloke is full of high quality non-sense.
http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=112808


Even more dumb is this:
http://www.styleforum.net/showpost.php?p=1946123&postcount=23

Comparing shoos to barbed wire??  lt's hard to believe people could suck so much.

Last edited by The_Shooman (2009-04-10 07:03:24)