tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45025715536377801.post8691633317138139916..comments2023-05-28T03:47:00.033-04:00Comments on NEW YORK SARTORIALIST: Sartorial MediocrityMichael Cresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239742740113600597noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45025715536377801.post-11205971053803134922010-03-04T16:00:37.360-05:002010-03-04T16:00:37.360-05:00Classic photo!
In a strange way I am reminded of ...Classic photo!<br /><br />In a strange way I am reminded of a tee-shirt they had in the 1970s (I remember Art Garfunkel wearing one), a tee-shirt with the pattern of a tuxedo, carnation, white dress shirt and black bow tie design on the front.Ray Frenshamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18102271184582937704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45025715536377801.post-74774282679086137352010-03-03T02:22:13.529-05:002010-03-03T02:22:13.529-05:00Dressing is hard-wired, like catechism, and best l...Dressing is hard-wired, like catechism, and best learned by the age of twelve. I come from the generation of women who donned white gloves to board a plane, and lurched from Nina Ricci to Carnaby Street. My ideal of beauty is still Carmen del Orifice. The present generation has no idea how much emotion is contained and artfully expressed through clothes.<br />My mother's closet was filled with not just with fabric but with specific memories: from her riding clothes, to her evening dresses, to the Carmen Miranda costume, laden with fruit, she once wore to a costume party, each outfit represented a different mood or phase of life. My own closet,too, has become a sort of diary. When I first moved to California, each purchase I made was instinctive; How would this look on 57th Street? Would it pass the "Breakfast at Tiffany's" test? Elegant and severe--yet still slightly gamine? It didn't matter that I'd be better served by a J Peterman duster in the Sonoma storms. I was still looking for something in the vein of my vintage Pauline Trigere jumpsuit, my Victor Joris velvet Pallazzo pants,and my first cocktail dress, a Leo Narducci, in empyrean blue, backless, with a 5 inch belt studded with different sized rhinestones, all winking up at you like shooting stars.Valwordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13415757732548258526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45025715536377801.post-23175541208205101452010-03-02T08:02:26.296-05:002010-03-02T08:02:26.296-05:00My husb. works for a Fortune 500 Co., when he star...My husb. works for a Fortune 500 Co., when he starte 25 yrs. ago -- tie & jacket were required. Now, business casual, for @ 15 yrs. At church, as this article states, ties/jackets, dresses ( even here in the South )have given way to jeans. My teenage daughter begged us to let her dress down at church b/c she was the only one in dresses. My sons wore ties even when they were the only ones. They just didn't feel right dressing down at church. <br />Will it swing back? I don't know. I hope so.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07694303999403759624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45025715536377801.post-80258886891040127612010-03-02T07:18:51.569-05:002010-03-02T07:18:51.569-05:00Not to sound the curmudgeon bell, but I do wonder ...Not to sound the curmudgeon bell, but I do wonder at the responsibility of the Boomer generation as we birthed and raised you Gen Xers. Somewhere in our rampant protests against the societal quo, we denied training our children to dress. My own 80's born children were in the minority when it came to being dressed for formal functions and special events.<br />It may then be a simple lack of training. Coming of age in the early 70's, I may have pitched the clothes my mother gave me--but I couldn't lose the ingrained knowledge. It is still fun to break many of the rules--but there is a further tickle knowing I'm breaking them.Julianne Fuchs-Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10755151826638191096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45025715536377801.post-89536807315617657822010-03-02T01:20:32.040-05:002010-03-02T01:20:32.040-05:00I believe it will swing back as more people realiz...I believe it will swing back as more people realize how drab the world has become with it's current lack of elegance. Though, as Plato warned us, democracies will tend toward the lowest common denominator, thus jeans and tees.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001580200664485899noreply@blogger.com