Subtlety

[Rowly]

if you are consistent in your behavior you can and eventually WILL wear whatever you like.

This is very true. Consistency is key. You must be the constant in the equation.Your self identity comes from within yourself and you give it expression. Your self perception is not based on the reaction of others, otherwise your sense of self will be like a pinball in play. All the sheep need to accept who you are, is to see that you are who you are.
To thine own self be true.

[Costi]

Gentlemen, this is my very first post

...or second - but most welcome, for the first time!

Last one who thought he could vent his (unasked for) opinion was 3 years ago, and as things go in my neck of the woods: he has disappeared from view.

What a shame... If you need a new one, I could volunteer!

I shocked one of my correspondents by writing him that my next project is going to be a marine frock-coat. His first reaction was to inquire where I would wear it.

I suppose your correspondent knows little about computer work

Seriously, though, consistency is, indeed, (the) key, as you write. I remember a phrase Michael once coined - the dressing yo-yo: up for work, down for play. It just doesn't work that way. You are who you are. Of course you won't actually be wearing the same clothes for work and for play, but the style of dress, the way you put things together is the constant: not because you look for it, but because you FEEL it. You don't think about it, you just follow it. It is neither classical canons nor avant-garde fashion that should dictate how we dress: it is our own sensibility. And THAT is a constant... considered over a limited span of time

[Costi]

All the sheep need to accept who you are, is to see that you are who you are.

O-ho! There is a lot in that...
(the sheep needn't be "the sheep", but the second part is deep)
(sorry for the limping rhyme)

[Gruto]

The devil has landed ...

There is a certain irony in this thread. People seem to celebrate individuality and authentic expression, still they praise the same manners, suits, shoes and dressing philosophy. Please explain the link

[Costi]

The devil has landed ...

...or surfaced!

[Merc]

NJS

Another striking image of recent date occurred in the Paris metro. American girls have always had a mitigated reputation ( good or bad depending on your outlook and objectives) amongst European men.They were truly like creatures from another planet. And thanks to TV, these are the role models of femininity for the world. Gracious!
Michael

America is in the vanguard .you see it here first..then you see it elsewhere

[alden]

America is in the vanguard .you see it here first..then you see it elsewhere

Ha, ha...well at another time in my life I might have been more open to the idea of marauding gangs of female serial rapists (except each of these dainty creatures outweighed me.) It was like the cast of "Prison Women 3" had escaped after a few too many years behind bars (and not at them.) What a sight? Is that the new trend Stateside? Now if it were Grace and Rita leading the pack, I could be easily seduced. But you had to see Delilah to believe it.

Cheers

Michael

[vancehn]

Gentlemen, this is my very first post

...or second - but most welcome, for the first time!

I know for sure it is the first time I vented anything on this esteemed forum besides a picture.

[Merc]

Is that the new trend Stateside? Now if it were Grace and Rita leading the pack, I could be easily seduced. But you had to see Delilah to believe it.
Cheers
Michael

I spent many a friday night "hanging out" with a newspaper photographer friend on the street in the East Village and Lower East Side of NY.
and i would say the crowd has become more declasse over the last 10-12 years. "Nice" (often suburban) girls come to the city bar to go hopping,end up throwing up on the street.
ive even seen a few times drunk girls in their 20's dropping their pants to pee on the sidewalk, which is something drunken guys used to occasioanly do between parked cars
but it is something that 15 years ago i never saw women do... and this type of behavior was largely confined to college campuses when i was in college here in NYC not all over the streets in other neighborhoods (then again these neighborhoods have become like one big college and post-college campus)

[alden]

Merc

In all fairness (and kidding aside) that kind of binge drinking behavior can be as easily seen on the streets of London and other major UK cities. It is strange that alcoholism among the young should be such a problem. On the Continent, especially in countries where there is a significant wine culture and children grow up with it, there is less of a problem.

[Costi]

Gentlemen, this is my very first post

...or second - but most welcome, for the first time!

I know for sure it is the first time I vented anything on this esteemed forum besides a picture.

Indeed.

I am sure you receive more compliments (even if silent - the most precious kind, actually!) on your three-piece suits, than unasked for "opinions".

[NJS]

Merc

In all fairness (and kidding aside) that kind of binge drinking behavior can be as easily seen on the streets of London and other major UK cities. It is strange that alcoholism among the young should be such a problem. On the Continent, especially in countries where there is a significant wine culture and children grow up with it, there is less of a problem.

I am not sure that it is strange at all when it arises in such a society which has lost all direction and objective.
NJS

[lxlloyd]

Merc

In all fairness (and kidding aside) that kind of binge drinking behavior can be as easily seen on the streets of London and other major UK cities. It is strange that alcoholism among the young should be such a problem. On the Continent, especially in countries where there is a significant wine culture and children grow up with it, there is less of a problem.

I can assure you that it still goes on amongst my european peers, just later and often they move to appartments because the venues are closed.

There is a rather saddening game amongst my friends here in paris, a variation on "Gay, straight or taken/european?" If a girl is seen with a particularly short hemline.... English, American or Russian?

I worry about the perception of my generation sometimes. I once saw a girl in the middle of a busy traffic junction in Paris, knickers and jeans down, relieving herself (I might add that the light had changed and she was causing a traffic jam). Her friends were at the side of the road laughing. There was an open fast food restaurant with facilities... maybe ten metres away? Not one of them had had the decency to drag her there before she became.... well an anecdote.

[NJS]

And then....we have this mob:

http://uk.omg.yahoo.com/news/celebrity- ... 00808.html

Templates and style leaders for the yoof of today. Ye gods! - Well, Ye yobs, anyway!
NJS

[couch]

And some who should know better.