Trad contest finalists

[ted]

Originally Posted by ABALO

American Style IS dumb...

 

[AlanC]

I regret I didn't have opportunity to wear this ensemble for the contest:

 

[Man In Space]

^ I'm dizzy...

 

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by AlanC

I regret I didn't have opportunity to wear this ensemble for the contest:

 

[AlanC]

 

[ted]

Originally Posted by AlanC

All you needed to go with that was striped boxers and striped socks -

 

[AlanC]

Maybe I'll pull it out for a pattern matching contest if Kent sponsors one.

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by AlanC

Maybe I'll pull it out for a pattern matching contest if Kent sponsors one.

This would be better entered into the "Create a Sartorial Optical Illusion" contest.

 

[AlanC]

Originally Posted by Manton

This would be better entered into the "Create a Sartorial Optical Illusion" contest.

Semantics.

 

[Larry Lean]

(Also posted on that Film Noir Buff Style Forum that I'm so fond of...)

Sorry I missed all this yesterday - I was at J. Simons buying a tie & having an all too quick chat with the great man re: The old Brooks & the old Haspel (I'll post on it later).

I think in a nutshell what we all like is the American Traditional Natural Shoulder Ivy League style (TNSIL) - if we like these clothes at all.
Because we like these clothes we call them by their proper and historically correct name: The Ivy League Style. This is the name that you will find the style called by in pre '04 writings on the subject. It is the name that everybody understands.

"Trad" is an internet lifestyle game. An update on the "Preppy" lifestyle spoof.

If we are serious about this style we should be concentrating on it seriously in my book and not playing "Curriculums" and all those other games which have no basis in reality.

I'd like the impact & influence of the Classic American Ivy style appreciated and discussed properly on the Net. in all it's aspects - even including the Brooks natural shouldered double-breasted style.

"Trad" can be played out elsewhere as a game for lightweights, spoofsters and trolls. Why not? It's all internet fun.

But nobody who is serious about this style has any place buying into it or calling Ivy League by this new made up name "Trad".

"Trad" as a game has been going on for far too long now and there are fools out there who believe that it and it's rules of dress are real. They are not. They are an ill-informed interpretation of Ivy League style only, and a very limited and limiting interpretation at that. A pale and very silly echo.

We should leave it behind and let the nebbishes play their game in their ill-fitting and garish clothes. They simply do not know what they are talking about when it comes to discussing this style and I deeply resent their assumed ownership of what classic American style is all about. It's as if a bunch of morons had latched on to Savile Row style and were playing around calling themselves "Rowers", making up silly rules as they went along.

Time to move on.

IMVHO.

David

 

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Kent Wang

Thanks to all the other finalists and contestants, and thank you to Manton for judging. I'd like to sponsor some other contests in the future. Any suggestions?
SF being SF, I say a best assembled thrift outfit with a price ceiling of 50 bucks head to toe, judged by Dr. J, the thriftmaster himself. Plus, itll be nice to give them some new clothes

 

[AlanC]

Originally Posted by m@T

SF being SF, I say a best assembled thrift outfit with a price ceiling of 50 bucks head to toe, judged by Dr. J, the thriftmaster himself.

Now that idea I like a lot.

 

[DocHolliday]

Originally Posted by m@T

SF being SF, I say a best assembled thrift outfit with a price ceiling of 50 bucks head to toe, judged by Dr. J, the thriftmaster himself.

Plus, itll be nice to give them some new clothes

If we're talking discount and not necessarily thrift, I've got some killer entries.

 

[VMan]

Originally Posted by DocHolliday

If we're talking discount and not necessarily thrift, I've got some killer entries.
We could have it both - discount and thrift - but still keep the price ceiling low. $100 max, perhaps. Bonus points if the outfit was under $25. However, a problem lies in the fact that it is nearly impossible to substantiate the origin and price of the clothing in question. Of course, this being SF, we can rest assured that total honesty and gentlemanly conduct will prevail from the contest entrants, right? Either way, I am down for this contest.

 

[AlanC]

VMan would be a worthy foe on this contest. Lucky Strike could be dangerous, as could pejsek, if he came out of the shadows.