Stuff Styleforum underrates!

Originally Posted by Phat Guido

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Paisley is cool. It's a good luck sign actually. Nobody cares though.

Originally Posted by Phat Guido

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I may just finally visit our office in India soon..

OK. Hope you will find some good stuff there. My advice: never during summer season, the sun will kill you. Either you will love the place or hate the **** out of it.

Originally Posted by DocHolliday

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The American cut
Military cuts
Cuts outside the SF norm
Machine-made shirts
Round-toed shoes
Quality without frills
Style as not defined by SF
Discretion when discussing money, personal info and lifestyle
Well-worn clothes (This one gets a lot of lip service, but ...)
Enjoying clothing without making it a competition
White shirts
Patterned trou
The Avengers

I agree with a lot of these. That is all.

Texture. Underrated compared to, say, colour or fit.

Originally Posted by Prince of Paisley

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Texture. Underrated compared to, say, colour or fit.
I think it is harder than color and fit. I learn a lot here about texture but am still lost.

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

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Don't worry...there are still people who take photographs inside public restrooms or headless shots within their office.


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How could I have forgotten the plates of food? That's essential. Dirty dishes even better.

Upon a moment's reflection, maybe what's bothering me is this: I'm starting to feel like SF is creating a specific lifestyle image people are trying to adopt, to varying degrees of success. I had the same issue with the Trad forum. It became a reality because people willed it into being, even though many of the participants seemed to have little experience with it at all.

Blarg. I'm going all Holden Caulfield. How unseemly, and I don't even have the excuse of being 15.

Originally Posted by Manton

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Abridged version.

Also you left out patterned trou + patterned coat.

PS, I put in white shirts just for you, Manton.

Pants that actually fit.

Originally Posted by DocHolliday

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How could I have forgotten the plates of food? That's essential. Dirty dishes even better.

Upon a moment's reflection, maybe what's bothering me is this: I'm starting to feel like SF is creating a specific lifestyle image people are trying to adopt, to varying degrees of success. I had the same issue with the Trad forum. It became a reality because people willed it into being, even though many of the participants seemed to have little experience with it at all.

Blarg. I'm going all Holden Caulfield. How unseemly, and I don't even have the excuse of being 15.

I see what you are saying, but I think that you are taking some of it too seriously.

Phatty G has been very influential in two ways.

First, he brought a whole new level of visual sophistication in the presention of clothes on this forum.

Second, the diarist style he adopted can, in fact, show useful context to the role clothes play.

I agree that it is nearly impossible for most people to match the former. But, recently, a few have come close. The different angles, closeups, shots of the man in motion, all of these are more useful and interesting than the static shots that you and I, and much of the forum fogies take. Why get disheartened by that? I enjoy it even if I can't do it myself, nor as you put it, "compete" with it.

As for the latter, well, whatever negatives one might attach to it, even the worst diaries are better than 95% of what gets posted here day in, day out. Hot assistants, old dudes eating sausage, fast cars, world travel, whatever: if new are still more interesting than yet another thread asking how tight one's pants should be.

Have you considered that you might just be getting bored with the whole thing? There really isn't a lot of new information on tailored clothes to be had for someone who has been around like you.

Clothes are not actually an endlessly interesting topic in and of itself. Stunning, I know.


- B

Originally Posted by Manton

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If you don't wear Rubinacci, you are nobody.

Then I'll be the zero in the car.

Originally Posted by Vintage Gent

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Then I'll be the zero in the car.

I thought that your answer would be, "vegetarianism."


- B

Originally Posted by DocHolliday

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PS, I put in white shirts just for you, Manton.

I stopped hating black shoes, so I may yet come around on white shirts. White buttondowns are pointless, though.

Originally Posted by Manton

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White buttondowns are pointless, though.

Booooooo!


- B

Originally Posted by Manton

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White buttondowns are pointless, though.

Ecru!

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

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Booooooo!


- B

I have one, I just think it cannot justify its existence.

Originally Posted by mafoofan

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Ecru!

Those are nice. Have several.