Random fashion thoughts - Part II (A New Hope)

[Gruff]

White dudes making a society for white dudes that needs to be protected in perpetuity by and for white dudes. Maybe someone, at a different time, in a different place, can explain to me how that's governing America, and not white nationalism.

Just want to point out to be fair, many other countries do the exact same thing: "X ethnicity making a society for X ethnicity that needs to be protected in perpetuity for X ethnicity."

Japan comes to mind - they're pretty explicit in their restrictive immigration policies, although I think they've (marginally) softened in recent years due to the demographics of population growth and aging. But I have a sense that most Japanese would tell you Japan is for the Japanese. To the extent that 98.5% of Japan's population are ethnic Japanese, it's hard not to draw conclusions about the values they place on a cohesive polity.

(Note: I could be wrong on this. Those with extensive Japan experience, feel free to correct me.)

 

[nahneun]

how i feel throughout all the CE talk.

anti-intellectualism! hurray!

(but seriously, i'll be the contrarian here and say please continue (0). this is all very fascinating despite being super off topic)

 

[CBrown85]

@DieWorkwear is arguably as smart as Manton but without all the weird stuff that I don't agree with politically.

 

[nahneun]



@DieWorkwear is arguably as smart as Manton but without all the weird stuff that I don't agree with politically.

i don't think it's arguable that they're of equal intelligence. @dieworkwear is very smart (i would actually argue that he is smarter than Manton :foo. that being said, i don't think it's right to discount someone's views just because they're not in line with yours.

 

[penanceroyaltea]

Oh my goodness that gif nahn. You've outdone yourself

It's hypnotic

 

[nahneun]



Oh my goodness that gif nahn. You've outdone yourself

It's hypnotic

mfw senpai finally recognizes me :foo:

 

[t3hg0suazn]

where do you find all these gifs? is it just an advantage of being one with the internet?

 

[baltimoron]

when you'll never be better at finding gifs than hyung

 

[nahneun]

cheer up nico nico ni

 

[msg]



I will still maintain that city germs are different than country germs, but it's not quite as extreme as you make it out to be. I obviously maintain normal hygiene habits in both places, but I'm more inclined to be careful about germs here, and less so in places where there aren't so many people

I've never carried hand sanitizer or stressed about that stuff, but I'd sooner eat a raspberry off a bush in the woods than lick a subway pole. The germs are different!

I'm with you. I was just reacting to some of the sentiments expressed in the thread, about consistency and opinion over time, not you personally. Nothing but respect.

 

[APK]

Fok, I know the CE discussion is OT, but I appreciate you letting it play out a bit here. The sort of discussion that's happened over the last few pages here generally isn't possible over in the proper forum for reasons that become obvious to anyone who spends more than 10 minutes reading those threads.

 

[Coldsnap]

Dunno if I should go to the Shockoe sample sale in Richmond this weekend. $30 in gas..

 

[cyc wid it]



cheer up nico nico ni

I had hyphy flashbacks.

 

[LA Guy]

Fok, I know the CE discussion is OT, but I appreciate you letting it play out a bit here. The sort of discussion that's happened over the last few pages here generally isn't possible over in the proper forum for reasons that become obvious to anyone who spends more than 10 minutes reading those threads.

Welcome, but I don't think that that is true. I used to spend too much time in CE, and in general, the discussions were of the same tenor as this one.

 

[dieworkwear]



Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

So, in other Hermès news, I recently learned (through this article), which contractor in Germany makes Hermès' knit ties. I had wondered about this since when I bought my first Hermès knit tie a while back and noticed that the label said "Made in Germany".
It's this company:

http://www.ascot.de/

Since they also make ties under their own name, I was curious how those would compare to the Hermès-labeled ones, so I ordered one, and lo and behold, you get almost exactly the same product. The only difference seems to be that the ones made for Hermès are 0.5 cm narrower:

Aside from the minimal difference in width, everything else appears to be the same - same construction, same "crunchy" fabric, same everything. Except of course for the price: the "Ascot"-labelled ones cost only 60 €, vs. around 130 for a Hermès one (in a boutique in the EU).

If only everything Hermès was available directly from some contractor...

The Knottery sells them for even less

http://knottery.com/collections/knit-ties

Conrad Wu and Drake's use the same tiemaker.