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fritzl

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chukkas, where ever you look. it's a nightmare...
 

lasbar

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Originally Posted by fritzl
chukkas, where ever you look. it's a nightmare...

Italians love them...Always in brown and paired with everything even black...
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fritzl

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Originally Posted by lasbar
Italians love them...Always in brown and paired with everything even black...
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...but where is hope...
 

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Skinny gave bow ties Buzz status last June. I think we're just touching Saturation, with many to be seen over summer.

Seeing more in WAYWRN and I wore a couple this week.
 

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Originally Posted by RJE
Skinny gave bow ties Buzz status last June. I think we're just touching Saturation, with many to be seen over summer.

Seeing more in WAYWRN and I wore a couple this week.


Bow ties? Sorry guys ,can't see that look being ever fashionable outside university's professors and Baptist church's reunion.
 

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Originally Posted by lasbar
Bow ties? Sorry guys ,can't see that look being ever fashionable outside university's professors and Baptist church's reunion.

Yep, bow ties will hit the saturation point this summer and then us university professors and church reunion attendees can be left to enjoy them.


Pre-buzz/just beginning to buzz: black shoes
 

lasbar

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BBC;3140526 said:
Yep, bow ties will hit the saturation point this summer and then us university professors and church reunion attendees can be left to enjoy them.


God bless bow ties and university professors..
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fritzl

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Originally Posted by lasbar
Italians love them...Always in brown and paired with everything even black...
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..from what i've heard they are smaller than the foo...

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lasbar

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Originally Posted by fritzl
..from what i've heard they are smaller than the foo...

fr


Fritzl , I will not make any comment on taht particular statement of yours...
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SkinnyGoomba

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Originally Posted by RJE
Skinny gave bow ties Buzz status last June. I think we're just touching Saturation, with many to be seen over summer.

Seeing more in WAYWRN and I wore a couple this week.


sweet I was accurate.
 

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Saturation point: Skinny, pinched waste suits on gray-haired 60+y.o. guys.
Backlash: Double monks (one buckle is undone).
Backlash to Backlash: Knit vests and cardigans.
Backlash to Backlash to Backlash: Balmoral boots.
 

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Originally Posted by Pezzaturra
Backlash: Double monks (one buckle is undone).

Seriously? Did you actually see this or are you imagining it?
 

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Originally Posted by Tck13
Seriously? Did you actually see this or are you imagining it?

I saw it once in the US. It was in the security line at Newark - thought the guy had started to take his shoes off... Then I looked up (not too ar up) at the face of the guy.... Scott Schuman
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I find my feet almost slipping out if double monks are worn without the upper buckle being done

Also the deliberate sprezz is very fake ( dont know of a better word to describe it )
 

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Originally Posted by aj_del
The deliberate sprezz is very fake ( dont know of a better word to describe it )

+1.

Once a quirk becomes obviously contrived, it ceases to actually be sprezzatura. For real sprezz, you should barely notice (unless you are a SFer!).
 

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