MoneyWellSpent's Southern Trad Thread

[smittycl]

@Count de Monet, how could anyone buy a copy of "The Official Preppy Handbook" without "realizing much of the book was satire"?

Like its 2010 sequel, "True Prep", "The Official Preppy Handbook" was in the Humor section, not the Fashion section, in bookstores and libraries.

Both books are joke books, not fashion books. Anyone smart enough to graduate from kindergarten knows the difference between joke books and fashion books.

On a related subject, we can all probably think of books that are in the Fashion section in bookstores that should be in the Humor section.

The book came out while I was in high school. The affluent kids embraced it immediately and started wearing topsiders, sweaters and button downs. It may have been satirical but it had a concrete impact.

 

[Caustic Man]

I don't know if Lisa Birnbach would approve of the polo shirt and madras jacket combo but, at least for today, I do.

 

[Roycru]

For those who don't remember the wonderful pre "Officious Preppy Handbook" world, the answer is in the 1967 film "the Graduate". As Mr. McGuire tells Jonathan, "Plastics".



Before the least Preppy, Ivy, and/or Trad person to ever walk the Earth, Lisa Birnbach (who, had she lived in New England a few years earlier than she did, would have been burned as a witch, which would have been the only case in which an actual witch got burned at the stake) wrote the worst book ever written, "The Official Preppy Handbook", the greatest wonder of modern science, plastic, was rapidly becoming a part of many textiles.

People could buy clothes at Brooks Brothers (and almost everywhere else) that didn't wrinkle, didn't get eaten by bugs, didn't need to be sent to the cleaners, and lasted forever. Then people who didn't know it was a joke book read her book and wouldn't buy textile blends with plastic in them and ruined the World for everyone else (except hungry bugs and dry cleaners).

The blazer, tie, shirt, and trousers in this picture are all blends of wool, silk, or cotton with plastic. All except the shirt predate the publication of the worst book ever written.

On a totally different subject, the highlight of my day was the historic reference @Count de Monet made in his post in the Allen-Edmonds thread. For those who didn't notice the historic reference, here's a clue.

 

[smittycl]

Rain clouds about to open up and light was failing. Can't believe August is almost halfway over. Chances to wear pink pants getting more limited.

Pants and Shirt: RLBL
Shoes and belt: AE

 

[Caustic Man]

The only time this boater ever gets worn is to the track, and rarely, at that. It's a special occasion kind of thing. Today is the 35th running of the Arlington Million, so it got to come out and see the sunshine. That's the Crittenden Clothes linen sport coat recently acquired.

 

[Caustic Man]

Congratulations to the previously featured Louisville native Justin Thomas on winning the PGA Championship! Here he is showing some Southern Style at Derby.

 

[Blake Stitched Blues]

It's not a bad look. Shame about the peak lapels and the square.

 

[Caustic Man]

Agreed. I can forgive the square (though I would never do it) more than the peak lapels.

 

[Roycru]

Where the academia nuts grow.

Like Little Miss Muffet, sitting on my favorite tuffet at UCLA and wearing what are now my favorite shoes, Allen-Edmonds 1776's.

 

[Caustic Man]

UCLA was my grandfather's alma mater. He loved it so. He probably never sat on that tuffet, though. Looks fairly Brutalist, so I'm guessing it was built sometime in the 1960s.

 

[Caustic Man]

Something a little Northern and a little Southern for you today. The yeller trousers are from the old new Duckhead, jacket is from BB. I'm unapologetic about the hat, so don't ask.

 

[armedferret]

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[Roycru]

@Caustic Man, everyone here likes your hat (and your show of school spirit) unlike some of the people in some of the parts of cyberspace you wander into.

You might want to consider changing the initials you use when posting in a certain Facebook group to "PBS" since your posts there can be classified as casting pearls before swine. For some reason, that Facebook group (and its related website) seem to be a bizarre comment magnet. (I keep waiting for someone over there to mention Admiral Bull Halsey wore a ball cap while doing his part in winning WWII.)

Meanwhile just can't stop wearing my Allen-Edmonds 1776's as seen here earlier today on a traffic island between the La Brea Tar Pits (which if you speak English and Spanish translates to The The Tar Tar Pits) and the building I still call Prudential Square.

Unfortunately, the miracle of the Miracle Mile is now long gone. Today someone asked me why it was called that.

 

[Caustic Man]

This count?

If you wore the jacket, yes.

@Caustic Man, everyone here likes your hat (and your show of school spirit) unlike some of the people in some of the parts of cyberspace you wander into.

You might want to consider changing the initials you use when posting in a certain Facebook group to "PBS" since your posts there can be classified as casting pearls before swine. For some reason, that Facebook group (and its related website) seem to be a bizarre comment magnet. (I keep waiting for someone over there to mention Admiral Bull Halsey wore a ball cap while doing his part in winning WWII.)

Thanks Roy. That particular Facebook group is an interesting place, isn't it? There are some super people there, but some just come in to do the same things they do everywhere on the internet. Cause strife.

 

[elterrell]

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What kinda pants you rockin' there?