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Suit Advice
I know Whitcomb & Shaftsbury visit DC, or at least they did before the travel ban (which should be lifted in the next few weeks). I think they're in your price range. As you'll see on this board, bespoke is not necessarily a panacea for fit problems. In many cases, the first commission is the...- stdavidshead
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Suit Advice
What are you hoping to correct with a different tailor?- stdavidshead
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The Oxford-Shoe-Worn-Casually Appreciation Thread
If anything productive has come out of this thread, it's the introduction to this guy's Instagram. Really good, tasteful stuff.- stdavidshead
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The Oxford-Shoe-Worn-Casually Appreciation Thread
I very much agree with this. The Great 2021 Oxfords with Jeans Debate:- stdavidshead
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Sneakers With Tailoring: Yes, No, Maybe?
Even if everyone in the world "decided" this, they would be wrong. Why? Because harmony in music has a specific, objective meaning, and there's essentially none of it in that piece of music, unless it happens incidentally in one of the radio snippets. The idea of coherence is absolute. The...- stdavidshead
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Sneakers With Tailoring: Yes, No, Maybe?
I mean, you started this with Kant.- stdavidshead
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Sneakers With Tailoring: Yes, No, Maybe?
My position is that there is such a thing as universal beauty. Certain things, like symmetry, proportion, etc. are present in nature and appear to appealing to people regardless of their cultural context. Note the lack of value judgement. I'm not equating "the good" and "the beautiful". If you...- stdavidshead
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Sneakers With Tailoring: Yes, No, Maybe?
I don't agree with this, and I think it's very unfair to medieval monks, Indians and Africans! Their initial reactions may be bafflement, but the notion that they would be utterly unable to "parse the message" with repeated listening, by virtue of having lost context, doesn't seem right. For...- stdavidshead
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Sneakers With Tailoring: Yes, No, Maybe?
It's almost better that you don't, like Hofstadter's aliens. If you care to listen, I've linked to the the two pieces of music he gives as examples. Is it possible to like both of these? I think so, and I do. But they're very, very different for the reasons I laid out earlier, and I think only...- stdavidshead
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Sneakers With Tailoring: Yes, No, Maybe?
I quoted a description of Cage's music in one of my earlier posts, which I think you may have missed. This may be the reason we seem to be talking past each other.- stdavidshead
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Sneakers With Tailoring: Yes, No, Maybe?
You don't think that a Barbour with a city suit is less discordant than t-shirts and sneakers with tailoring? Seems like a difference of degrees to me, but I won't quibble. Do you not accept different degrees of good and bad? So if one thing in an outfit is "off", the whole thing is bad? And no...- stdavidshead
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Sneakers With Tailoring: Yes, No, Maybe?
There are difference of degree in discordance, no? I'd argue that most of these are less discordant and so " in better taste" than oxfords and jeans. By the same coin, I can thing of things that are more discordant and so worse (e.g., the picture earlier in this thread of Ralph Lauren wearing a...- stdavidshead
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Sneakers With Tailoring: Yes, No, Maybe?
I bolded the part above because I think it illustrates where we differ. No doubt that formality is socially driven and completely relative. But the word I cottoned onto was "discordance". Formality is fully relative, yes, but the idea that discordance is not beautiful is, I think, universal...- stdavidshead
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Sneakers With Tailoring: Yes, No, Maybe?
But if someone doesn't care about the golden era aesthetic, or isn't trying to replicate that look, does it suddenly make oxford with jeans acceptable, even beautiful under the right conditions? You'd really change your mind if someone with sufficient cultural capital did this? I don't know you...- stdavidshead
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Sneakers With Tailoring: Yes, No, Maybe?
So there's no objective beauty? Again, I don't see how you can hold this position and also say that, e.g. business casual isn't in good taste. You surely don't deny that it has been "legitimized". You can say that you don't like it, sure, but you seem to actively encourage people to ditch it...- stdavidshead
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- Forum: Classic Menswear