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post #31 of 595
1/20/12 at 7:24pm

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post #32 of 595
1/20/12 at 7:36pm
w.r.t. this thread, I reiterate Doc's thoughts
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Originally Posted by DocHolliday View Post

This might be the ultimate SF meta discussion and I, naturally, have nothing of value to contribute. But please keep the conversation going -- perhaps something will come to me.

Will end with some thoughts from the Simplicity thread
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Originally Posted by dopey View Post


You are approaching this like a hobbyist. You needn't. Ask Anna Matuozzo for a dozen identical white shirts and get six navy hopsack suits from Rubinacci. Keep your cream pocket squares and your repp ties. You will be done shopping or thinking about clothes, other than for black tie, for the rest of your life, and you will be as elegant as anyone on this board can hope to be.

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Elegance from simplicity is the first step.


Elegance from complexity is the next.


One does not exclude the other, but it is often mentally easier to be one or the other, and that's okay.


Clothes cannot make you more elegant than you are...at best, they can only bring out qualities that are intrinsic to you. If your life shows no habits of loving things that are beautiful, it is unlikely that the way that you dress can be imbued with elegance.


Elegance also arises out of the whole and never from the parts.


Elegance is also seldom admired by the many. You have to be prepared to be unpopular.



- B
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post #33 of 595
1/20/12 at 7:59pm
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post #34 of 595
1/20/12 at 10:19pm
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post #35 of 595
1/21/12 at 3:20pm
I hope you don't stop posting, Vox. I'm awaiting inspiration, if not a revelation.
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post #36 of 595
1/21/12 at 6:20pm
I think ace speaks for a lot of us here. This is the only thread I've obsessively checked in a while.
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post #37 of 595
1/21/12 at 7:17pm
Please excuse one who butters his potato ambrosia and cannot afford to wear Bijan, but does not the WAYWRN thread already offer thousands of examples? Why re-invent the wheel with a redundant thread such as this? Or am I missing something?
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post #38 of 595
1/21/12 at 8:58pm
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does not the WAYWRN thread already offer thousands of examples?
Because it does, and yet it overwhelmingly doesn't.
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post #39 of 595
1/21/12 at 10:18pm
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Please excuse one who butters his potato ambrosia and cannot afford to wear Bijan, but does not the WAYWRN thread already offer thousands of examples? Why re-invent the wheel with a redundant thread such as this? Or am I missing something?

I agree with this... just saying...satisfied.gif
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post #40 of 595
1/21/12 at 11:41pm
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Please excuse one who butters his potato ambrosia and cannot afford to wear Bijan, but does not the WAYWRN thread already offer thousands of examples? Why re-invent the wheel with a redundant thread such as this? Or am I missing something?

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Because it does, and yet it overwhelmingly doesn't.


Exactly! WAYWRN is very active and democratic and all that, but sometimes it helps to step back and out of the clutter and noise. There's a concept in Buddhism called 'beginner's mind' - I think it is useful sometimes not to think that either you or we know how it is, but to listen and reconsider the basics.

 

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post #41 of 595
1/22/12 at 5:27am
There's a lot in WAYWRN that I wouldn't wear even if someone paid me. Likewise there are plenty of clothes I wouldn't wear because they suit people older than me better.
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post #42 of 595
1/22/12 at 11:46am
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Because it does, and yet it overwhelmingly doesn't.

The Styleforum Koan.
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post #43 of 595
1/23/12 at 8:04am
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Edited by F. Corbera - 2/14/12 at 8:58am
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post #44 of 595
1/23/12 at 8:27am
Not sure if this is how you intend the dialogue to continue, but I will give my response to the above pics.

I don't like the look in either, but can 'respect' or appreciate the second pic (did not see the video in detail).

The first pic looks like he is trying to achieve a sober/ understated (harmonious?) look, bit something in the tie and the shirt, flower and square seems to work against the effect of the suit. If I think about it, the pattern - polka dot to stripes - seems jarring, the colors - red /blue/ white seem jarring, and that pocket square seems to have to add to the confusion.

The second pic I can appreciate because even though he's still wearing a 3 piece suit and striped shirt, now he's gone all the way into a more exuberant style. The tie, the hat, the coat - they all suggest the same thing, seem to be going to the same destination (although you may not want to go there yourself).
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post #45 of 595
1/23/12 at 8:33am
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Originally Posted by F. Corbera View Post

This premise will not be popular on this forum. The vast majority of you seem deluded into believing that you will look good by over-laying, festooning, "twisting," something "boring" (you think) with a bit of something "interesting," something with "personality," something that "sets you apart." Nothing could be further from the truth. You are diluting, you are marring, you are sinking into a type of mediocrity, of conformity, in coat and tie dress that is little different than the low-cost, mass-merchandized world from which most of you are trying to escape.
If you really are a dandy, an iconoclast, you can only be successful at it by committing full on...like LabelKing does. If you hold back, then all you are doing is dressing weakly. You are unlikely to be good, and you will never be excellent.

Can you, or someone that knows what you mean, elaborate on this further?
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