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#1 2009-07-08 19:14:05
- tmc22
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All the News that Fits
I have always followed these sites in order to learn something. I haven't learned much since the beginning of the year, but I will note what I have learned:
1. "Bookster". Haven't bought anything but it seems like an incredible, reasonably priced resource, if they can do proper transfer of measurements.
2. Haspel suit seperates from Belk. Belk is an old time southern department store chain. I have bought Haspel suits since I reached my majority. I realize they are now made in the Phillipines. However, I saw that they were very reasonably priced and offered seperate jacket and pants sizes. I could buy a 44l jacket and 40x32 pants. To my unpracticed eye they were sewn with skill, reinforced at the pockets, 1/4 lined like suits used to be made. a great summer resource. I bought the seeksucker and the linen models.
3. Bold striped socks from JPress. The kind that can get you physically assaulted when you wear them.
4. Stetson offers a shantung straw hat for summer this year. Impressive.
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#2 2009-07-09 01:04:05
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: All the News that Fits
And I've learned more from that post than I have in a good while too - Thank you, Tom.
Personally I've moved even further from trying to find information online to the quest for easy entertainment on the Net. I no longer look for good advice & sage opinions when I log on. I wonder if I ever really did. The real world is the place to learn. Online one can only really report back and chat.
Maybe.
#3 2009-07-09 01:22:39
- dundeedavie
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Re: All the News that Fits
^ I don't think a truer word has ever been spoken .
#7 2009-07-13 06:30:32
- Alex Roest
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Re: All the News that Fits
I'm always interested in what makes people tick, sartorially or otherwise, so that is basically what I want to learn about through logging on. And maybe use an idea or two in the process, twisting them around as one does.
There probably aren't that many interesting characters to be found on the net although a lot of the time you have to read between the lines a bit also. After all not everyone is that good an author, or good with words for that matter, which doesn't always mean they have little to say I think.
It's probably more about entertainment indeed, I'm not sure. There's that 'community sense' to an extent as well of course as PK has mentioned with regard to the lack of an immediate circle of friends with the same interests. For some of us at least it compensates just that.
I think I recognise passion however despite the actual distance of the forum formula and that's what makes it worth my while to be a member of TI. Real life can be a drag too as it happens 
#9 2009-07-13 07:24:00
- The Beatnik
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Re: All the News that Fits
Is it just me, or is this the place people from Modculture come to when it's time to grow up?
May I just add...Sartorially, perhaps not emotionally or intellectually.
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#10 2009-07-13 07:26:37
- Prof Kelp
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/\ or when they start to lose their hair!!
http://thetownoutside.tumblr.com
#12 2009-07-13 08:04:16
- The Beatnik
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Re: All the News that Fits
Alex.
Is David S, Dave Steel by any chance, if so he's an old chum of mine.
#13 2009-07-13 08:16:50
- Alex Roest
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#15 2009-07-13 08:49:14
- IvyLeagueOfGentlemen
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Re: All the News that Fits
"As I looked out into that night sky, with all those infinite stars, it made me realise how unimportant they are"
Peter Cook
#16 2009-07-13 09:05:58
- The Beatnik
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Re: All the News that Fits
Mod is a young man's game. Always was.
You cannot be a thirty or forty something Mod. Unless you are Weller and famous enough not to care if he often looks a fool.
At some point you have to grow up. No-one is saying you have to lose interest in all things Mod, but there is nothing sadder than some balding, paunchy geezer still believing he's the Ace Face. (With apologies to our own Ace Face).
Daniele on this very forum is the proof of how to do things properly with style and dignity.
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#18 2009-07-13 09:22:51
- The Beatnik
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Re: All the News that Fits
Indeed Ponyboy. After leaving the Liberals he could indulge his love of all things Modernist.
#19 2009-07-13 09:36:20
- IvyLeagueOfGentlemen
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Re: All the News that Fits
"As I looked out into that night sky, with all those infinite stars, it made me realise how unimportant they are"
Peter Cook
#21 2009-07-14 02:06:25
- Alex Roest
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#22 2009-07-14 03:04:26
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#25 2009-07-14 04:47:12
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: All the News that Fits
I really welcome all of this - Personal evolution!