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conservative business dress WAYWRN: An Experiment
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You should lobby to be named the OP of the regular WAYWRN. Otherwise, it will fall upon Mr. K.Originally Posted by voxsartoria
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Maybe I'll just start a new one.
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I hope that you get the power to go into other people's threads and delete posts.Originally Posted by voxsartoria
That would be awesome.
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Originally Posted by voxsartoria
^ Warm [autumn jacket] and cool [mostly winter tie, summer shirt] mixed together, one can only see the clothes, not the man. conservative business dress, so no need to see the man. One can stare at the little patterns and think how unobtrusive the repetitions are. There is no "uniform" in conservative business dress, more mixy-matchy.
Originally Posted by oldog/oldtrix
^ All warm [autumn] palette allows one to see the man. Not a conservative business dress man, but a stylish one. This can pass as "uniform." - M
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Originally Posted by voxsartoria
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Sweet. Contra Foo, I believe this brown worsted is swell and works splendidly with the shirt and tie.
So, citified, countrified, conservative business dress?Originally Posted by oldog/oldtrix
Some here might argue that the suit is too light in color to be conservative business dress, but for me it's pushing the boundaries in a non-FU kind of way. I wish that you were more of a roll-to-2 fella, though.
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Like Japanese poetry, conservative business dress seems, at first glance, restrictive and formulaic. But in the hands of someone immersed in the art, it can be immensely expressive.Originally Posted by Bounder
Creativity arises from constraints. Igor Stravinsky:
"My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit."
"No matter what the subject may be, there is only one course for the beginner; he must at first accept a discipline imposed from without, but only as the means of obtaining freedom for, and strengthening himself in, his own method of expression."
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^ Warm [autumn jacket] and cool [mostly winter tie, summer shirt] mixed together, one can only see the clothes, not the man.Originally Posted by mmkn
conservative business dress, so no need to see the man.
One can stare at the little patterns and think how unobtrusive the repetitions are.
There is no "uniform" in conservative business dress, more mixy-matchy.
^ All warm [autumn] palette allows one to see the man.
Not a conservative business dress man, but a stylish one.
This can pass as "uniform."
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The thread continues to find new ways to surprise and impress.
And here I thought I couldn't see Vox's posts because he was deleting them. Little did I know he was posting in a blue tie.
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Interesting. - BOriginally Posted by voxsartoria
^ Based on sage advice, I am standing [sitting?] by you. Color is a purely emotional response, usually the first response, and a visceral one at that. Proportions and lines follow. For example, once I get past O/O's uniformity, I noticed how somewhat anemic his lapels are for a DB, especially when buttoned down low. More belly on them [leading to less accentuation of his] would glare less. - M P.S. What do you read on the commode?
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