What are you wearing today?

[applecrisp]

docus, that coat is really great.

I think it's the perfect reason to start an Avantindietro Archive thread...and might as well put those boots in there too while you're at it.

[Fuuma]

i don't disagree with your general points (why have a forum where discussion is encouraged and not just a blog if the point is to showcase specifics with some abritrary set of standards) but i was wondering if you can explain what this is supposed to mean ??

Good taste is the status quo, it is normative, a little bad taste (well a challenge to good taste) can liberate the space of possibles.

[zamb]

Good taste is the status quo, it is normative, a little bad taste (well a challenge to good taste) can liberate the space of possibles.

Are we saying that this is the only way or the only option?
what about the possibility of "exceeding" good taste...........or dare i say, taking good taste to an absurd level

I have this dream of wearing only bespoke 3 piece suits in the finest fabrics and having a female chauffeur / personal assistant who carries my briefcase and introduces me with monochromatic personal cards every where I go.
In the process of it all, when I speak I shall speak pure, grammatically correct English in full sentences and treat everyone I meet with the uptmost attention and coutesy in my interaction with them.................I want to attain a kind of vain perfection that really has no end in sight but to just be that for its own sake

[DudleyGray]

Wow, that's like a bizarro version of my life goals. Except my female assistants are suicide girls, and they do all the talking for me.

[nvsnli]

You should add A troubadour to company that. Always wanted to have a A troubadour in my squad who could sing songs about my adventures.

[fncyths]

I have this dream of wearing only bespoke 3 piece suits in the finest fabrics and having a female chauffeur / personal assistant who carries my briefcase and introduces me with monochromatic personal cards every where I go.
In the process of it all, when I speak I shall speak pure, grammatically correct English in full sentences and treat everyone I meet with the uptmost attention and coutesy in my interaction with them.................I want to attain a kind of vain perfection that really has no end in sight but to just be that for its own sake

sounds like zam is ready to be a bond villain

[zamb]

For me it would be fin to try it.............If only for a Month, just to see what the experience would be like and how I could consistently maintain a disposition and aura that is not my natural state of being...........And to see how people would react to it.

I guess its probably because I have been so bored lately that I want to dress like a Dandy again, except in a more exaggerated form of expression than I used to.
I want to wear crisp shirts with sleeve garters and carry an umbrella in the Sun..........
take long walks with ladies talking nonsense politely to each other and cover them with my Coat. Open car doors for them and walk them to their doors
Lord I could see this becoming completely absurd..............but fun

[fncyths]

I love all of this!!!

I've actually been doing a bit of this myself. Wearing ascots and double blazer sharkskin suits again. But then again, that's much more my world than gothninja

Just watched this François Truffaut film the other night. Right up your alley:

[BSR]

I have this dream of wearing only bespoke 3 piece suits in the finest fabrics and having a female chauffeur / personal assistant who carries my briefcase and introduces me with monochromatic personal cards every where I go.
In the process of it all, when I speak I shall speak pure, grammatically correct English in full sentences and treat everyone I meet with the uptmost attention and coutesy in my interaction with them.................I want to attain a kind of vain perfection that really has no end in sight but to just be that for its own sake

basically you want to be karl

[MajesticMap]

wool coat--Oedur
sweatshirt--Drkshdw
t-shirt--Issey Miyaka
gloved t-shirt--Lost n Found
trousers-- Lost n Found (sorry no detail shot on those)

glasses and hat are cheap city bullshit

[zamb]

basically you want to be karl

no no, because Karl seem to want to exist both in the past and present simultaneously. I want to be pretty much a really polite "artisanal" Dandy................something that you cannot know if its genuine or pretentious but you just like it for the sheer effort and refinement of it.

[MajesticMap]

I'd love to see some dandy-fication in the next ZB line? S/S '15 out your pocket squares and ascots!

[Faust]

Damn, you guys have high standards. All I ask for is good sex on regular basis.

[mrbeuys]

Damn, you guys have high standards. All I ask for is good sex on regular basis.

Define regular.
Zamb, you drunk?

[zamb]

Define regular.
Zamb, you drunk?

F,

No
I'm very serious. I think form an aesthetic and sartorial viewpoint I want more, a certain grace, a certain sense of refinement and beauty. I dont want it to be just a desire but something I attempt to bring into being in my environment

I want to read books, to write nice letters with wonderful words of expression, to check in on my friends and allow them to feel a certain kind interest in them as a person rather than simple interaction............
I actually went into a pharmacy today and bought something for my son,
I said good evening to the Cashier and made light conversation in my best voice and tone with nice mannerisms that shoe would not have expected from someone like me....................she smiled and I said Thank you Kindly and walked away with a rather elegant gait I looked back slight and saw that it made her smile

lets see how it works out. I just think its a rather beautiful thing to be a 21st century artisanal dandy!