Posts by DocHolliday

Quote:Originally Posted by mafoofan Did I say the greats were infallible? To put a finer point on things: to the extent they are admirable for their style, it is for sticking to a coherently distinguishable manner of dressing. When...

Quote:Originally Posted by mafoofan Context, conviction, taste, and execution. A lot of what both the DoW and Astaire wore in later life is absolutely awful. Would get them stoned out of the good taste thread. Don't make me dig up...

Quote:Originally Posted by mafoofan Yes and yes. No matter how unorthodox certain choices may have been at the time, they were characteristic of the wearer. How is that different than every peacock that populates SF?

Quote:Originally Posted by mafoofan Name a man of great style. Whoever you can come up with, he will be a man who found answers and then expressed them. He will not be one who ceaselessly experimented. If he had, he'd have no...

At that point I might just say screw it and give in to the urge to try a bowler.

You guys are hung up on this definition thing when the OP specified that he was talking about lapels that are wide, not 4-inch lapels that fall halfway across the chest. The pictures he posted are pretty definitively wide.

The car shot, I think, is more iconic.

Not a fan of DBs without a tie, tweed or no.

Will soon look just as dated as they did the first time around.

Don't overthink. Knits are meant to be easy, effortless -- the opposite of fretting about the relationship between tie width and lapel width. Square-end knits start to look odd at 3 inches and look odder as they grow larger.