Metlin
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What about a guy with an expensive watch, expensive shoes, rp speech, and good grammar?
Clearly, he's either my grandpa's age or deranged. I kid, I kid.
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What about a guy with an expensive watch, expensive shoes, rp speech, and good grammar?
Clearly, he's either my grandpa's age or deranged. I kid, I kid.
If you have no idea, how did you come up with $3K? There are $3K+ bags, but most bags sold are around $1K or less. It's a very good chance the bags you saw were fake
Ah yes. He has often been my avatar. Below is my favorite shot.
You may be correct in my case.
This phenomenon is called the Diderot Effect, and is not new. It was first characterized in an essay by Diderot regarding receiving a new dressing gown as a gift, and how the gift lead to him replacing his entire office.
The best Style Forum threads should be read in lockjaw.
Yup... it all started with my first nice suit. I quickly realized I needed better shoes, better shirts, better ties... *******'s neverending!
So true. I've been working on replacing most of my wardrobe after discovering SF.
Reading this thread makes me want to buy something.
The desire to match is a damning desire, for all sorts of things not just for clothes and accessories. If you look at black guys, even the dandy ones, they don't give a flying hoove if it's pinstripe trousers with Campbell clan jacket and purple socks. Conventions, esp. English ones, are so dam boring as it's dictated by a group of people resistant to change, which is the reason they're still around, because the wind of change blew through Oct. 1917.
The desire to match is a damning desire, for all sorts of things not just for clothes and accessories. If you look at black guys, even the dandy ones, they don't give a flying hoove if it's pinstripe trousers with Campbell clan jacket and purple socks. Conventions, esp. English ones, are so dam boring as it's dictated by a group of people resistant to change, which is the reason they're still around, because the wind of change blew through Oct. 1917.
Every once in a while I take a step back and realize that our consumption (meaning that of my wife and I) has gotten completely ridiculous. At what point did we start expecting to have only the very best of everything?