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What Has Been the Worst Era for Men's Suits?

bobby jonathan

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90s suits, have charm although, AFCW is 1988, the late 80s looked similar to the early, 90s.

bobby jonathan

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comrade

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^He looks like a pimp.

If he were a Pimp, which I doubt he is, he doesn't converse like what I imagine
the way a Pimp converses. And the girls he had in tow, in whom I took, let's say,
a grandfatherly interest, were vivacious, articulate, and beautiful(see above) and
I hope lascivious- but in an elegant understated way, as per the SF paradigm.
 
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I wonder how long label King will remain In China?
The way things are going under Xi, Label King might
be declared a member of the comparador class and subject
to socialist re-education or worse. Is my terminology
stalled in the Mao era?
 

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Clearly, he cannot be touched. Not by man nor woman.

What's interesting about Barims (my favourite ever member here), LabelKing and even UrbanComposition's recent fits are they are influenced by some aspects of a platonic ideal of 1970s aesthetics but they are actually nothing like what people actually wore then, let alone what was advocated as the pinancle of style at the time. They are actually quite conventional and contemporary in terms of materials, cut, and only pushing the envelope a little in terms of colour, but they are just far enough away from the norm and done so well, tthat you notice the differences and enjoy them. That's because, in many ways, CM in the last twenty years has been far more conservative and timid than in any of the variously more revolutionary decades in style (60s, 70s, 80s), and ironically a lot of that is precisely about the nostalgic but inaccurate fetishism of the past and the 'classic.'

This is pretty accurate. I've always found UrbanComposition's outfits inspirational for my own casualwear ideas, particularly his use of turtlenecks and texture. Nothing there really strikes me as applicable to a particular nostalgia - it's just good combos.
 
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