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I'm pretty sure I recognize this dude...

A year or so ago:

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Originally Posted by barims
I'm sure of it. Brazzaville is purportedly this continent's finest shopping destination outside of South Africa. I could use a more nuanced summer counterpart to my autumn wardrobe

During our talk on Francafrique recently, I omitted to mention that I recently inherited a Peugeot 607 - standard issue for your government at one time, I think? - to supersede the slightly more entertaining Nissan pickup I previously drove


They used to have the old DS in the sixties...

That was an iconic car...

When De Gaulle nearly got killed at the hands of the OAS , he always stipulated he only owed his life to the Citroen's hydraulic system allowing the car to continue with all tyres burst..
 

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Why do you respond to almost everything in this thread? 14 posts in the last few pages. And you never contribute an image.
 

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Originally Posted by vncrz
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"I think what she has done with her hair is great, but she took it a step further with her dramatic razor thin eyebrows. One of those elements, without the other, would have made the whole look less effective.

I also love how she plays with the contrast of tough but femme sexiness. Yes, she has an obvious punk sensibility, but she still shows a little bare shoulder, has some sparkle in her top and just the slightest touch of color on her lip.

Well played young lady."

Seriously, WTF?


Maybe for a cyberpunk video game character?
 

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Originally Posted by barims
I'm sure of it. Brazzaville is purportedly this continent's finest shopping destination outside of South Africa. I could use a more nuanced summer counterpart to my autumn wardrobe During our talk on Francafrique recently, I omitted to mention that I recently inherited a Peugeot 607 - standard issue for your government at one time, I think? - to supersede the slightly more entertaining Nissan pickup I previously drove
I would have imagined Cairo--with its rather Francophile aristocracy during the Farouk years--would have sophisticated shopping options. But then I suspect the Egyptians may also see themselves as more Arabic.
 

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Originally Posted by needler
Does he delete anything seriously critical or does everybody there really lap up everything that much? The only comments I read are on the most ridiculous pictures because it entertains me to watch people try to come up with compliments for some of the ridiculous things he posts.

I've repeatedly tried to put critical comments on his blog, and not one has gone through. Even something reasoned and thoughtful--like saying the girl with the partially shaved head was not a look most would care for, and as for the thin eyebrows that is an unfortunate preference of many eastern European women--a vestige of earlier times for western European women that has no (thankfully) lost favor. In fact the over-tweezing these EE women do results in many of them eventually losing their eyebrows completely and having to pencil them in, which looks awful. I've seen many an older EE woman with the clownish over-makeup... To encourage this over-tweezing is criminal, in my mind. I feel badly for the poor teenage suburbanites in the U.S. who drink his kool aid... Scott has no idea what he is talking about sometimes.

Of course, when I say "Great look! Love the (fill in the blank)!"--that gets posted immediately!
 

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Originally Posted by EBugatti
I've repeatedly tried to put critical comments on his blog, and not one has gone through. Even something reasoned and thoughtful--like saying the girl with the partially shaved head was not a look most would care for, and as for the thin eyebrows that is an unfortunate preference of many eastern European women--a vestige of earlier times for western European women that has no (thankfully) lost favor. In fact the over-tweezing these EE women do results in many of them eventually losing their eyebrows completely and having to pencil them in, which looks awful. I've seen many an older EE woman with the clownish over-makeup... To encourage this over-tweezing is criminal, in my mind. I feel badly for the poor teenage suburbanites in the U.S. who drink his kool aid... Scott has no idea what he is talking about sometimes.

Of course, when I say "Great look! Love the (fill in the blank)!"--that gets posted immediately!


Didn't know comments had to be approved before they are put in.

I thought blog owner could delete comments once they are posted but never thought each comment would go to him for approval before getting posted
 

EBugatti

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Originally Posted by aj_del
Didn't know comments had to be approved before they are put in.

I thought blog owner could delete comments once they are posted but never thought each comment would go to him for approval before getting posted


Scott is still in marketing mode, IMHO. He only wants positive comments. He knows his stuff wouldn't stand up on its own without careful editing. He can have some good shots, but has frequent misses in my view...
 

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Originally Posted by EBugatti
I've repeatedly tried to put critical comments on his blog, and not one has gone through. Even something reasoned and thoughtful--like saying the girl with the partially shaved head was not a look most would care for, and as for the thin eyebrows that is an unfortunate preference of many eastern European women--a vestige of earlier times for western European women that has no (thankfully) lost favor. In fact the over-tweezing these EE women do results in many of them eventually losing their eyebrows completely and having to pencil them in, which looks awful. I've seen many an older EE woman with the clownish over-makeup... To encourage this over-tweezing is criminal, in my mind. I feel badly for the poor teenage suburbanites in the U.S. who drink his kool aid... Scott has no idea what he is talking about sometimes.

Of course, when I say "Great look! Love the (fill in the blank)!"--that gets posted immediately!


+1, every critical comment I have posted has been stopped at the gate and deleted, even if it was only mildly so, but every single "That looks great, thanks Scott!" has made it through quickly. The odd thing is that they're not even consistent. On that pink suit image, my comment saying in kind terms that it was horrible didn't make it through yet 2 other comments saying the exact same thing did. My guess is that he tries to weed out all clearly critical comments but isn't particularly good at it. Either that, or he must get hundreds of people hating them
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Agreed on the EE tweezing thing too, it's tragic.
 

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Originally Posted by lasbar
They used to have the old DS in the sixties...

That was an iconic car...

When De Gaulle nearly got killed at the hands of the OAS , he always stipulated he only owed his life to the Citroen's hydraulic system allowing the car to continue with all tyres burst..


I love the effusiveness of French automobile pride - it has genuine charm

My 607 would be a great ride, as opposed to serviceable-to-good, were it not a fixer-upper. The roaring trade in second hand vehicles in Togo and the Cote d'Ivoire may merit investigation presently

Originally Posted by nemuu
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The other photographs aren't loading for me, but that's likely to be on my end. I like the fellow's tie and boots only but he seems like he'd make for entertaining evening conversation. Decent photograph

Originally Posted by LabelKing
I would have imagined Cairo--with its rather Francophile aristocracy during the Farouk years--would have sophisticated shopping options. But then I suspect the Egyptians may also see themselves as more Arabic.

I think the rest of the continent may also. It is, on some levels, the Dubai of Africa, after all - crass commercialism is a stock in trade

I don't know the breadth of Congo's shopping options, but across Africa, all it seems to take is a sizeable and marketable enough combination of interest and liquidity. If the shoewear tastes of a cousin of mine in Lagos are any indication, Cleverley could possibly justify a Nigeria tour one day. TM Lewin's first operations outside of Britain, for example, are there and also here in Accra

Originally Posted by EBugatti
Scott is still in marketing mode, IMHO. He only wants positive comments. He knows his stuff wouldn't stand up on its own without careful editing. He can have some good shots, but has frequent misses in my view...

I'm certain I snuck in a short critical missive last year; perhaps I was too subtle
 

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Originally Posted by aj_del
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It's not even really the darker-than-hair skin this guy's rocking, it's the cut-away+fat tie shooting out over his ribcage. On short-neckers like this it just makes them look like wack-a-mole victims. I really like the material of the coat, but the short ticket pocket is unnecessary, kind of like the intentionally unbuttoned sleeves.
 

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Originally Posted by BillyMaysHere!
+1, every critical comment I have posted has been stopped at the gate and deleted, even if it was only mildly so, but every single "That looks great, thanks Scott!" has made it through quickly. The odd thing is that they're not even consistent. On that pink suit image, my comment saying in kind terms that it was horrible didn't make it through yet 2 other comments saying the exact same thing did. My guess is that he tries to weed out all clearly critical comments but isn't particularly good at it. Either that, or he must get hundreds of people hating them
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Agreed on the EE tweezing thing too, it's tragic.


This is called selective reading...
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Constructive criticism is always a good think even if it is sometimes hard to stomach...

A blog is a more personal form of expression than posting on SF for example and the blogger might find more difficult to receive criticisms .
 

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Originally Posted by lasbar
This is called selective reading...
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Constructive criticism is always a good think even if it is sometimes hard to stomach...

A blog is a more personal form of expression than posting on SF for example and the blogger might find more difficult to receive criticisms .


I agree with you--for 99% of the blogs out there you are absolutely correct. However, once you are trying to trade on the fact that you're some kind of authority (Scott likes to promote the fact that he influences fashion and trends), to be credible, you are eventually going to have to go out in the "real world" and see if your ideas stand up on their own. Right now, he's posting to a carefully edited fan club... Notice on his Tokyo trip he's saying to his audience: if you bought my book, come to XXXXX location and I'll sign it. He doesn't want to face his critics.
 

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