Disagreeable Menswear Post Of The Day

doghouse said:
Is there any Gen Xer that didn't have a pair of Sambas at one point or another?
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Me. For some reason, Adidas never fitted my feet well, so I wore Puma and Nike instead.

Way, way back in time when you could just go to the shops and pick up a pair of Nike shoes without having to enter a lottery, line up for ages, or pay a reseller, I walked in to my local department store and walked out with a pair of these:

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This was back when the Air Jordans were first out, from memory, and so I got a bit of flak from other kids at school, who said that I should have got Jordans instead. However, I didn't care about basketball and didn't want basketball boots so had no idea why anyone would want a pair of Jordans!
 
I once heard, that at one point (and to make a point), Adidas made a shoo, for every olympic sport.
 
sirloin said:
I once heard, that at one point (and to make a point), Adidas made a shoo, for every olympic sport.
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Well, that was probably a lot easier to do some decades ago, when footwear was simpler and you would wear the same shoes for a variety of different sports or activities!

Adidas was a very sports-oriented brand - the forerunner to Adidas (Dassler Brothers Shoemaker) made track and field shoes from the mid-1920s onwards and persuaded Jesse Owens to wear their shoes for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he won four gold medals.

Of course, the Dassler Brothers later had a falling out - one of them kept the business and renamed it after himself, Adolf "Adi" Dassler. The other brother started his own shoe business on the other side of town, and called it Puma.
 
Journeyman said:
Well, that was probably a lot easier to do some decades ago, when footwear was simpler and you would wear the same shoes for a variety of different sports or activities!

Adidas was a very sports-oriented brand - the forerunner to Adidas (Dassler Brothers Shoemaker) made track and field shoes from the mid-1920s onwards and persuaded Jesse Owens to wear their shoes for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he won four gold medals.

Of course, the Dassler Brothers later had a falling out - one of them kept the business and renamed it after himself, Adolf "Adi" Dassler. The other brother started his own shoe business on the other side of town, and called it Puma.
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Bugger. So the Australian pronunciation is wrong. I’ve been saying ‘adeedus’ all my life.
 

HOF: What Are You Wearing Right Now - Part IV (starting May 2014)

Nice combo. I see the edges are starting to fray on the shirt. Well done. I rather like the frays on my oxfords. Cheers. This one will soon be retired from “proper” wear, but a well worn, airy linen will still have plenty of use for beach trips/whenever vacations are realistic options. Nothing...
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Dear Muffy,

What does The Community think of bright red overcoats for gentlemen?
 
Kingstonian said:

HOF: What Are You Wearing Right Now - Part IV (starting May 2014)

Nice combo. I see the edges are starting to fray on the shirt. Well done. I rather like the frays on my oxfords. Cheers. This one will soon be retired from “proper” wear, but a well worn, airy linen will still have plenty of use for beach trips/whenever vacations are realistic options. Nothing...
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Dear Muffy,

What does The Community think of bright red overcoats for gentlemen?
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Lovely when worn by women, shit when worn by men.
 
Dropbear said:
Don’t forget Roark’s Drift!
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Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you, I was there...

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With my chums...

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My photos at Rorke's Drift were a bit poor. The last one shows the hill over which the Impi came. There's no real perspective, even with the caves and trees. Completely unlike Isandlwana where the scale of the landscape, battle and the extended firing line and grave kerns are awe inspiring and overwhelming even on a mobile camera.

Both battle sites will illicit a spiritual reverence for the absurdity and bravery of that very pointless war. I didn't a shed a tear, but I was close.
 
I’ve stood on a few battle sites (both famous and less so) that had that effect on me. I’m not really superstitious, but I did feel that some sort of spirit was present.
 
Young Fogey meets Fedora Lounge.

Here is the main culprit, an academic who often poses with books or stands in a strange looking stance. He even has a 1940s haircut:-

Did you dress like an adult today?

Such a tie clip may be described as "spectacular." (Ha, and again, ha.) The coat and shoes seem to belong to a higher register of formality than the rest of the outfit. But you have explained why that is. My own difficulty with casual wear is that I have not found a source of inspiration...
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Kingstonian said:
Young Fogey meets Fedora Lounge.

Here is the main culprit, an academic who often poses with books or stands in a strange looking stance. He even has a 1940s haircut:-

Did you dress like an adult today?

Such a tie clip may be described as "spectacular." (Ha, and again, ha.) The coat and shoes seem to belong to a higher register of formality than the rest of the outfit. But you have explained why that is. My own difficulty with casual wear is that I have not found a source of inspiration...
www.styleforum.net www.styleforum.net
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Just been through the whole sordid thread...

I take great comfort it's only 12 pages.
 
Background of the moderator on FNB when it closed - ‘Part anthropologist and part fashion curator’.

It was just him and the other annoying one(not woofboxer) talking to themselves at the end.
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The Instagram Account Showing “Ivy’s” More Eclectic Side

Jonathan Wertheim is the one-man operation behind the popular Instagram account Berkeley_Breathes. Part anthropologist and part fashion curator, Wertheim spends...
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Kingstonian said:
Background of the moderator on FNB when it closed - ‘Part anthropologist and part fashion curator’.

It was just him and the other annoying one(not woofboxer) talking to themselves at the end.
putthison.com

The Instagram Account Showing “Ivy’s” More Eclectic Side

Jonathan Wertheim is the one-man operation behind the popular Instagram account Berkeley_Breathes. Part anthropologist and part fashion curator, Wertheim spends...
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Another earnest young fellow taken to the post-modernist cul-de-sac.
 
Kingstonian said:
Background of the moderator on FNB when it closed - ‘Part anthropologist and part fashion curator’.

It was just him and the other annoying one(not woofboxer) talking to themselves at the end.
putthison.com

The Instagram Account Showing “Ivy’s” More Eclectic Side

Jonathan Wertheim is the one-man operation behind the popular Instagram account Berkeley_Breathes. Part anthropologist and part fashion curator, Wertheim spends...
putthison.com putthison.com
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Such a shame that that prat was allowed to take over and effectively ruin FNB. It was quite amusing when Goodyear Welt (who had had a couple of tellings off by our young English teacher) would refer to him as Berk.
 
GW was always good for the banter.

FNB replied to an email a few weeks ago I sent him that he would get the forum back up, but it doesn't seem to have happened.
 
doghouse said:
GW was always good for the banter.

FNB replied to an email a few weeks ago I sent him that he would get the forum back up, but it doesn't seem to have happened.
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Let's keep our fingers crossed. Hopefully, the posters on here can do double duty and the prats can be told to stay on Ivy Style with Chenners and the ghost of JFM (Rip).
 
Sammy Ambrose said:
Such a shame that that prat was allowed to take over and effectively ruin FNB. It was quite amusing when Goodyear Welt (who had had a couple of tellings off by our young English teacher) would refer to him as Berk.
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GW used to be quite aggressive when he first showed up. Then after he reappeared he had calmed down a lot. It was only him on The Wardrobe at the end - along with an amusing troll whose name I forget.

The other chap always used to ask ‘is this forum dead?’ and pose questions about which calatrava he should buy or what limited, but expensive, clothing should be on his list. He was Russell Street quality. That now sounds like a box of chocolates reading it back.
 
Kingstonian said:
The other chap always used to ask ‘is this forum dead?’ and pose questions about which calatrava he should buy or what limited, but expensive, clothing should be on his list. He was Russell Street quality. That now sounds like a box of chocolates reading it back.
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Oh, I forgot about him. Beestonplace maybe?
 
formby002 said:
Chuckle.

Even though I've been sent to Coventry often, I've never worked for the 'big 4'.
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Clearly, somebody doesn't know their English geography.

Same here, mainly for stealing girlfriends off lesser mortals. One of the times, such was my superior demeanour, I didn't even know until somebody told me, so I just carried on regardless.
 

Ongoing Bespoke Projects

Interesting jacket; what happened to the pocket on your watch-side? Intentional design
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my eyes go from brown on the left to brown on the right and back. I can feel my brain cells exploding, but I can't look away. help.
 
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