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Groupthink or Connoisseurs' Consensus?

voxsartoria

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Originally Posted by Fuuma
I have to leave but doesn't it go like this: A&S: Italians likey, Italians develop a fashion industry (Chanel used to say Italians couldn't make clothing for ****, how things have changed), Italian adopt a sort of soft tailoring inspired by A&S, big guns like Armani emerge.

I think that the Italians who adapted Scholte did so nearly in historical parallel with A&S.

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Originally Posted by Film Noir Buff
A&S is definitely upper class in a way Corvato is not. Upper class read as tradition bound in spite of actual quality, slovenly, unkempt and uncaring of what anyone thinks about them. Class to burn and clothes to with it
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Scuffed, resoled navy blue shoes...
 

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Originally Posted by Film Noir Buff
A&S is definitely upper class in a way Corvato is not. Upper class read as tradition bound in spite of actual quality, slovenly, unkempt and uncaring of what anyone thinks about them. Class to burn and clothes to with it
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OK, what about this "slovenly" or "unkempt"?

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Ask you wife to take the pic, I used to think this suit was messed up but realized you were just raising your arm to take the picture. Probably looks tops.
 

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Grimslade saw that suit in action last night. He can give you a rundown on its poor quality, slovenliness, and unkempitude.
 

Fuuma

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Originally Posted by Manton
Grimslade saw that suit in action last night. He can give you a rundown on its poor quality, slovenliness, and unkempitude.

You should watch "Two jakes", Nicholson's collars are so wide they reach his arms.
 

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My wife has this tendency to get into the tastes and aesthetics of wherever we are traveling. Lets say Hawaii, for instance: she would never, not in a million years, buy a necklace made of shells or coconut fiber here in the states because she would think it is hideous. Put her in Hawaii for 5 days and she'll be brainwashed to start liking all this ****. Put her in San Antonio, Texas, and she'll come home with turquoise Wrangler jeans and a belt buckle the size of a salad plate.

I consider that "group-think".
 

voxsartoria

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Originally Posted by Film Noir Buff
A&S is definitely upper class in a way Corvato is not. Upper class read as tradition bound in spite of actual quality, slovenly, unkempt and uncaring of what anyone thinks about them. Class to burn and clothes to with it
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Do you recognize the club?

How about the tailor?

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Originally Posted by Manton
Grimslade saw that suit in action last night. He can give you a rundown on its poor quality, slovenliness, and unkempitude.

The last two are usually T4phages department.

Well done.


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Originally Posted by RJmanbearpig
Scuffed, resoled navy blue shoes...

Used castles, decrepit palazzos, chateau with worn stone, acres of unmown lawns, whole forests allowed to mature wild...

...boar roaming free to be shot.

So not midtown.

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Originally Posted by voxsartoria
The last two are usually T4phages department.

Well done.


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To do otherwise is to draw the leery eye of "teh ****"...

and this thread hurts my head
brb weed.
 

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Originally Posted by T4phage
To do otherwise is to draw the leery eye of "teh ****"...

and this thread hurts my head
brb weed.


Are you working in Kary Mullis' lab or something?
 

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Originally Posted by RJmanbearpig
Are you working in Kary Mullis' lab or something?

I left when he tried to get my DNA for the theoretical MCB top deck cards.
 

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