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Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still in f... - 4/11/2010 9:14:24 PM

OrpheusAgonistes

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I'm watching an episode of Mad Men, and it occurred to me "Oh man, I wish it were still socially acceptable to wear an ascot." I'd look dashing in an ascot. I'd wear an ascot every chance I got. While we're at it, I'd love to wander around in a straw hat, a crisp collarless shirt, seersucker jacket, and cuff links. Basically, I'd always like to look like I just got done swan watching with Daisy Buchanan.

Now I'm quietly convinced that there are other fashion trends whose demise people lament. What would you like to see come back into style?

PS--I also wish more women wandered around dressed as flappers--cloche, opera gloves, gaudy dinner ring, the whole deal.

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/11/2010 11:03:32 PM

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This might not be what you're looking for but I wish you could still buy a musclecar. I mean a bigblock V8 with around 400HP, a gas guzzler to be sure, which would mean it's not a daily driver. My first car was literally a racecar with air conditioning. We are talking the 1970s here.

My buddy had a Ford with an SHO (super high output) and it moved indeed. But once the hood was open and I saw it was a V6 my first though was "What if they hadn't left out those other two cylinders ?".

Sorry if I am so technical but there is another thing as well. Knobs. I have an amp and I'm glad I didn't pay for it because I might just have to shoot it. I took it from work, and no, I don't steal. I just told the boss I was taking it and got him to give me some speaker wire. Instead of a knob it has volume up and down buttons. It doesn't work quite linearly and is probably considered "intelligent" in the sense of ergo blastics or something. Well sometimes I like my music LOUD, and I mean as loud as it will go. I want every dime's worth. But then I can't stand distortion so I want it right on the edge. This is easy to do with the old style volume knob that was simply coupled to a potentiometer. But NOOOO, I hear some clipping distortion and want to turn it down just a hair, and the fucker will jump down like about 6dB. Wrecks the whole damn song sometimes.

OK, not technical this time - white picket fences. You know you can just jump over the thing but you don't because for whatever reason the property holder does not want you walking on his grass or whatever. A white picket fence is not security, it is just a sign that says "Don't walk here". And you respect that.

The longest word in that last sentence is what I really miss, but I am not going to wreck the thread going into detail about that. It's all been said. But maybe some just don't understand the whole nature of the white picket fence. It's not secure, you want secure you need a higher fence with barbed wire at the top, you don't want that in your neighborhood. A white picket fence is a sign that around here people still respect one another. There is no need for laser targeted weapons, electrified fences, junkyard dogs.

One good friend of mine actually HAS a white picket fence. But only one. And he's the only one on his street, I don't even know his address, I just get to the street and look for the white picket fence.

Sorry if your intent was more along the lines of clothing or haidos or something like that. If so, I could mention silk shirts. I used to have one and it was awesome. I can extrapolate on that if you wish.

T

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/11/2010 11:11:27 PM

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1950s Audrey Hepburn style clothing. Fitted and elegant.

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/11/2010 11:23:35 PM

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quote:

OK, not technical this time - white picket fences. You know you can just jump over the thing but you don't because for whatever reason the property holder does not want you walking on his grass or whatever. A white picket fence is not security, it is just a sign that says "Don't walk here". And you respect that.

That's not exactly what I was thinking of, but it's actually an interesting point. When/where I grew up, pretty much everybody had these really snazzy stone walls with (mostly decorative) iron gates. At night you'd shut the gate, but that mostly meant "Yo, we're sleeping. Don't bother us." I mean, the average child could have climbed over the wall or the gate pretty effortlessly. I remember I must have been 9 or so when we had to start locking all the windows at night--that was the first time there was a robbery in the neighborhood. Before that, my biggest fears had been the Russians, Freddy Krueger, and space aliens. Last time I was in the old 'hood, years ago, there were big, fully functional gates in front of several of the houses and they'd hired a marauding gang of rent-a-cops to patrol the area.

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/11/2010 11:41:42 PM

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Bell bottoms. And whatever happened to lawn jockeys? They were everywhere in the 1950's.
Oh yeah, and fedora hats for men, and women who wear Audrey Hepburn style clothing, I agree with you there Ange1ica. However these days many women would have to have them made in spandex. They'd be "fitted" alright.

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/11/2010 11:48:26 PM

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Lawn flamingos.

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/11/2010 11:51:55 PM

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1950s Audrey Hepburn style clothing. Fitted and elegant.

I'd never argue with Hepburn. Even when she was in a scene with Cary Grant, my eyes were still drawn to her. Also loved her gloves and hats.

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Lawn flamingos

I still have a lawn flamingo. It's right in front of the door to my apartment. It makes some people angry, but my aesthetic sensibilities are often misunderstood.

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/12/2010 12:49:59 AM

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FYI, if you see a PINK lawn flamingo in Cuyahoga or Lorain county in Onio, there are Polaks in the house. Racist or not, it was kind of a local thing, or ethnic fling, something. Not sure what but pink flamigos were like some kind of local craze here for a time. Two local TV show hosts (when we had them) commonly referred to pink flamingos in that particular context.

Well I am Polak and there was no offense intended and none taken. But, I am not all that good of a Polack, because my house is yellow and I just don't think the pink would quite click. So now I have to paint the house ? Well it is about due. Think I'll go with gray and then off to eBay. I shall have my pink flamingos and if anyone wants to say anything talk to Smith and Wesson. My racial pride is at stake !

Does anyone have any idea of the proper density for pink flamingos ? I mean like how many per square foot. I want to flaunt it but I don't want to overdo.

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/12/2010 4:18:09 AM

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I'd look dashing in an ascot. I'd wear an ascot every chance I got. While we're at it, I'd love to wander around in a straw hat, a crisp collarless shirt, seersucker jacket, and cuff links.

So...I don't believe I have to say this, but...if you'd look dashing in an ascot, man up and wear one.

You'd turn heads-make that be a *good* thing.

Fashion is a crutch for those with no style-when I wear vintage tea dresses, people stop me in the street to compliment me-there's no reason you couldn't have the same effect.

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/12/2010 4:49:49 AM

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/12/2010 4:56:11 AM

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Laughing at the 8 track comment. My dad was mournful for years after cars stopped coming with 8 track players. He had all those tapes and couldn't use them anymore and couldn't buy them in cassette format.

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/12/2010 5:17:38 AM

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Fashion is the problem,things only seem to come back into fashion because some fashion designers says so, usually whilst looking for that new look to sell their designs. So why let fashion be dictated by others, if you like something and want to wear that something, just find it and do it, create your own fashion, I do. In what I do, the things I wear, I scour places like ebay for items of wear under the headings; gothic,ethnic,hippy,asian,vintage and military surplus. I get told what I wear in not in fashion, to which I reply good, I like it that way, but I am known around here for having my own distinctive style and I have started a fashion for the wearing of Aussy bush hats, more and more people down the pub who once laughed at my leather bush hat seem to have them themselves now, all for practicality you understand, it keeps the rain off, I tend to be more practical than fashionable.

Regards Termy's V8 muscle cars, there are a few of them around here, they don't come out often but when they do, they are great, one a seventies trans am is converted to run on LPG, which here in this country is less than half the price of petrol. Of other vehicles, bikes, most of the bikes are harleys and similar cruiser style, boats, old wooden boats are again being built and sailed, but this is Devon, long has it been known one can be what they want to be here, no one really cares what others do, the reason why I came back here.

If you want something back in fashion, start it off yourself, wear what you like.

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/12/2010 5:35:00 AM

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Nehru collars...

or something groovy like this.

Yeah, I'm a hippie at heart.

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/12/2010 5:39:53 AM

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Nehru collars...

or something groovy like this.

Yeah, I'm a hippie at heart.

Asian wear, totally practical and suited to the enviroment it hails from. Oh, and the wearing of trousers only came from the need to ride horses, I know a few men who wear skirts, kilts to be precise and they are not Scots, Scots cannot claim that as their national dress, for it is worldwide and ancient.

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/12/2010 5:48:37 AM

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I like classic styles that stand the test of time..

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/12/2010 5:54:48 AM

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My Audry Hepurn tastes go back further then the 1950's, I actually think that if you live in a large city, and have a good dress maker, that style is very doable.

For me, think "My Fair Lady"... That amazing creation she wore to Ascot, the incredibly beautiful gown she wears for the final test...

A time when women had dresses for the morning, the afternoon, and those beautiful evening gowns...outrageous hat's and beautiful gloves, corsetts and kid skin slippers.

I also love the shirtwaist dresses June Cleaver wore in "Leave it to Beaver"

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/12/2010 5:59:28 AM

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I got to get a sewing machine, for some of the things I like in the material I like I cannot find, I have patterns and I can get the material with ease, so it makes sense for me to make what I like to wear.

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/12/2010 7:03:33 AM

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My Audry Hepurn tastes go back further then the 1950's, I actually think that if you live in a large city, and have a good dress maker, that style is very doable.

For me, think "My Fair Lady"... That amazing creation she wore to Ascot, the incredibly beautiful gown she wears for the final test...

A time when women had dresses for the morning, the afternoon, and those beautiful evening gowns...outrageous hat's and beautiful gloves, corsetts and kid skin slippers.

I also love the shirtwaist dresses June Cleaver wore in "Leave it to Beaver"

I live in the city and A line dresses never go out of style!

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/12/2010 7:17:55 AM

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For a long time when clothes shopping, my mom would always try to convince me to wear stuff like peddle pushers, which I thought were hideous by saying " They're so cute, and they're in fashion now, all the young girls are wearing them" to which I'd reply" I don't care if they're in fashion or not, or if all the young girls are wearing them, I personally find them tacky and stupid looking, and wouldn't touch them.

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. I get told what I wear in not in fashion, to which I reply good, I like it that way,

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RE: Modern life is rubbish--What do you wish was still ... - 4/12/2010 7:21:32 AM

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A lines are amazing, and if custom tailored, flattering to every figure type.

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