You rant on Suitedbooted old boy!
The whole Mod scene in Britain has become so diverse anyway, lots of sub categories and they all have their own sets of snobby criteria with which to judge a person.
Some of the last big Mod functions I've been to are almost laughable with Regency bucks with Sgt. Pepper moustaches looking down on the suits who look down on those in knitwear and everybody looking down on some poor kid in a Fred Perry and a parka. And the New Untouchables crew sneering at everyone regardless.
I agree with snobbery, pride and attention to detail but not when it becomes so out of control it threatens to destroy a whole movement.

Those factions were there almost from the very start and I really don't think there ever was a true 'movement' as such ( as the media would have people believe ). It was always a thing of small circles of like-minded people ( not necessarily from the same area at that ) that seemed to have a few things in common. After all it was just fashion and the things people feel they really have in common are usually much more basic than wearing the same type of clothing. Any kind of revival turning into a 'scene' has always struck me as pretty sad for various reasons. Then again I dislike 'scenes' full stop.....

But if we weren't all snobs we surely wouldn't all be on this site. We would be on Twitter happily discussing The Apprentice or what Fern Cotton had for lunch. This is elitism/snobbery, whatever you want to call it and thank God for it!. It seems to me to be a cyber Gentlemen's Club where you can talk to your peers and keep out the riff raff. And what's wrong with that? Maybe we are all a bit sad Prof. but this is a light hearted diversion, we are not really curing cancer here.

Last edited by Alex Roest (2009-04-30 00:56:14)

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Amen, brother!