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He was bunkmates with Enoch Powell fer chrissake.
don't forget Ram Man and Fistor.
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He was bunkmates with Enoch Powell fer chrissake.
don't forget Ram Man and Fistor.
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Here's a photo of Edward Carpenter, an advocate of gay rights and socialism who argued for the abolition of respectability and hierarchy. He's pictured here wearing a suit with sandals (sandals!). His thinking was pretty close to Oscar Wilde's, who while striking a pose, often pointed out the hypocrisy of London's fashionable society (in contemporary terms, this would be like wearing something designed by Jerry Lorenzo while voting for Donald Trump). Carpenter thought the dress codes of his day were overly restrictive, linked to phoniness, and wanted to get rid of them.
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Wilde and Carpenter would later influence post-WWI fashion, when some of the more fashionable men switched to just oxford bags and golfing sweaters (including Edward, Prince of Wales). Tweed in the city also became popular when, earlier in the century, it was mainly worn by Marxists, granola eating vegetarians, and pacifists who identified with the working class.
Lots of the stuff people today think is "respectable" was just radical dress from another era and hated on by traditionalists of that generation. In Hardy Aimes' Englishman's Suit, he goes on and on about the dangerous incursions of postmodernism and sets up the worsted suit as the prime achievement of a superior civilization (namely a very specific section of British society). You get the impression that he just pines for the restoration of the empire. He even uses terms like "well-bred and upper-class ways."
I'm pretty happy that I have this much work security, if nothing else.The year is 2050 and artificial intelligence has improved. A new thread appears:
"Who Still Works?"
My Mom did the same thing with cartoons. She got upset that I was watching a Thor cartoon and made sure I knew the Norse stuff was fake and that I should pay more attention in church. This is when I was 8-9 I think.My mom would't let me have he-man action figures as a kid because she thought they promoted the devil or some ****. I cried when I had to return my he-man birthday presents when I was 6.
just read the entire thread and there are some interesting views on history and grand politics.
I wear white scrubs to work. So the top and bottom are the same cloth and color, but i think they qualify more as pajamas than a suit. As I commute by bike on the norwegian west coast it is great to know that there always is a dry and clean pajama ready at work.
I can relate to Foos statements regarding a work uniform. It does creat some sort of camaraderie. And it is great to step out of the uniform in the afternoon and leave work behind.
I dont remember who posted "The school of Athens". I guess DWW is Aristotle who clearly wears brown to town and point downward for explanation, while Foo is Plato in a brigthly color toga. Alan Bee is the guy in the orange toga looking with some sceptisism at the guys in the middle. And Riva is lying on the stairs half naked in a blue toga screaming his views.
The rest of us are the guys taking notes.
Have a nice weekend!
Looks like suits the suit cycle is come full circle:
Givenchy Takes Inspiration From Korean Street Culture for Suit-Filled SS20
Taking over a grand Palace in Florence.hypebeast.com
Looks like suits the suit cycle is come full circle:
Givenchy Takes Inspiration From Korean Street Culture for Suit-Filled SS20
Taking over a grand Palace in Florence.hypebeast.com
My Mom did the same thing with cartoons. She got upset that I was watching a Thor cartoon and made sure I knew the Norse stuff was fake and that I should pay more attention in church. This is when I was 8-9 I think.
I got kicked out of Sunday school later when I was 10 for leading a (winning) guerilla movement. Don't think she ever got over it.
I think the traditional full three button has faded a bit. I got rid of the few I had. Greatly prefer the 3x2 roll and espcailly the version where the lapel is fully rolled over."So that’s why I wanted to bring what I love, the tailoring. I dipped back to a three-button suit, which felt modern again."
Huh? Like the three-button suit had become passe or forgotten in the tailoring world?
Started at age 18, out for college and the Reserves, then back active after graduation.I guess you started your military career early. I was two years in the navy before starting at a University, fatigues are comfortable! And it was nice to wear a DB with gold buttons without getting any questions. I dont think I could pull of a civilian db blazer with gold buttons.
I think the traditional full three button has faded a bit. I got rid of the few I had. Greatly prefer the 3x2 roll and espcailly the version where the lapel is fully rolled over.
I guess it's just a sartorial contrivance as the top button is rarely (or never) used in the full roll-over. I try to avoid contrivances but really like the look of the buttonhole showing on the rolled lapel. ?Ah didn't realize she may have been talking about full three-button. I tend to take things fashion designers say with a grain of salt, since they always seem to be changing their minds every six months.
Fully agree that the three-roll-two is much more appealing, even if its origin story supposedly emerged out of resource scarcity and make-shift adaptations to the full three-button when they fell out of favor.