MoneyWellSpent's Southern Trad Thread

[Artigas]

First outing for this Luxire shirt (new) and this jacket (new to me). Definitely one of my luckier eBay purchases. The promised snow was nowhere to be found.

 

[Caustic Man]

Very Ivy and very nice. I'm not convinced by that shade of... blue? Even less so if it's purple. And I'd have gone with darker shoes but that's a nice example of the Ivy natural shoulder and a loose, easy silhouette. Love the club collar and collar bar, too. Keep the traditions alive!

 

[pasadena man]

Nice to see the collar bar in a totally non Gordon Gekko ensemble. Don't really understand why these have gone so totally out of style. It can do a lot for both the collar and helping the tie to pop under the right circumstances.

 

[Artigas]

Very Ivy and very nice. I'm not convinced by that shade of... blue? Even less so if it's purple. And I'd have gone with darker shoes but that's a nice example of the Ivy natural shoulder and a loose, easy silhouette. Love the club collar and collar bar, too. Keep the traditions alive!

It’s blue but it’s definitely a bit darker than I had hoped. It’s kind of hard to tell sometimes on the computer screen when placing an order.

Glad you guys liked the pinned club collar. I have wanted to try one since I saw an American CIA bigwig wear one in “A Perfect Spy” (a John le Carré miniseries adaptation) when I was a teenager.

 

[Caustic Man]

Did Luxire put the collar bar holes in it or did you pierce it?

 

[Artigas]

Did Luxire put the collar bar holes in it or did you pierce it?

I pierced it. Seemed a bit less fussy that way.

 

[am55]

I pierced it. Seemed a bit less fussy that way.

How durable is it? Are the holes large, did they cause tears? What is the shirt material?

I've always wanted to try it, albeit with a solid gold pin and white shirt. I suspect my collars are too stiff, though, and would get damaged.

 

[Artigas]

How durable is it? Are the holes large, did they cause tears? What is the shirt material?

I've always wanted to try it, albeit with a solid gold pin and white shirt. I suspect my collars are too stiff, though, and would get damaged.

I knew I wanted to wear it with a pin, so I ordered the collar unlined. The holes are visible if I remove the pin, but disappear between washes (based on my experiences with this and other shirts). The pins don’t cause tears; they just move through the weave of the fabric.

Over time I suspect there will be some damage to the collar, but since I will probably always wear this one pinned, it shouldn’t be too visible. I have never had a dedicated collar for pinning before, though, so as long as the pin never goes through at exactly the same point, maybe there won’t be damage.

 

[JJ Katz]

Two (unoriginal) comments.


> Love the pinned collar, Artigas. Second CM's comments about the shade of shoes and shirt. Especially the shoes.

> At the risk of sounding fawning, sycophantic or inappropriate, I think that AcuteStyle’s combos are the cat’s pajamas. IMO, one of the best and most internally consistent dressers on SF.

 

[Caustic Man]

Interesting observation. What do you mean by "internally consistent?"

 

[JJ Katz]

I mean that it hews to a uniform, harmonious aesthetic with no glaring contradictions.

Or, to put it differently, he's 'always in character'.

 

[Caustic Man]

I get you now. It's true that you absolutely know when you see an AAS fit.

I entitled this "That face you make when someone younger than fifty tells you they're a post-structuralist." But this is how I did the gray tweed jacket thing. Total coincidence that this was on deck after Artigas' picture, but timely.

 

[Artigas]

That tie is killer. And gray tweed plus khaki is always a winner in my book.

Are you often accused of post-structuralism?

 

[Caustic Man]

Are you often accused of post-structuralism?

Not even a little. But I seen people who are. Mostly avoiding the sun in dark basements with the archivists. Naw, I love archivists.

 

[JJ Katz]

Structuralism and Post-Struct. in a way are interesting and worth knowing about, if only because they play a role in the evolution of 'western' culture, in the same way that even an atheist really should know / understand Ambrose and Pelagius.

Having said that, if anyone really cannot be bothered, it's perhaps enough to know that S/PS cannot even agree on who is or isn't one and how or whether they differ...

In my day PS were sometimes called 'deconstructivists'.