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Merde.
So, does anyone in this thread simply wear clothing because they like the way it looks on them or is that just for the simpletons like me
Yes- and they get their ass handed to them by assorted rubes all the time.Originally Posted by edmorel
So, does anyone in this thread simply wear clothing because they like the way it looks on them or is that just for the simpletons like me
Actually, it was more FNB v. the proles who try to dress above their station.
WTF happened to this thread? I thought it was some usless digest of passable pictures. Did it end up being all about Manton vs FNC again?
I will amplify [Despos'] point by suggesting that the AA illustrations also capture a time when men aspired to a life led as a concatenation of social occasions. This American aspiration was definitely one of American class. Today, however, the class that was the object of aspiration in America is dissapated, diminished, and irrelevant. Just because descendents live does not mean that class survives. And without that class, the underlying form of life to which the AA illustrations reach loses quite a lot of punch. The only thing that really makes the privileged class distinct is the encultured assumption of superiority which, if life does its job, gets broken by reality. And reality has broken it completely as far as I can see...
But you know what? I was the youngest guy there by twenty years, and I am not a young man.
All right, I am sorry, really, truly sorry. But give me credit. For every 50 whacks he takes at me with his stick, I only hit him back one or two times.
The upper class is defined by "encultured assumptions of superiority": ok, perhaps admirable, at best something along the lines of Jefferson's natural aristocracy. The "class that was the object of aspiration in America is dissipated, diminished, and irrelevant": I'll take that as an observation.
So, does anyone in this thread simply wear clothing because they like the way it looks on them or is that just for the simpletons like me
Reading StyleForum is like being at a NHL game. How, you ask? Well, you're watching the game, it gains momentum, you're getting into it and then a fight breaks out. Some are energized by the fight some think it is an unnecessary interruption to the game.
All right, I am sorry, really, truly sorry. But give me credit. For every 50 whacks he takes at me with his stick, I only hit him back one or two times.
Well, isn't it their fault for not inviting the Film Noir Buffs, mafoofans, and Mantons of the world, instead of just the Vox Sartorii (of whom there are few left who want to go, I presume)?