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Mr. Q 
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 Topic: Am I Insane?Posted: 07 Oct 2020 at 1:26pm |
Good one!
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Iron Horse
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Posted: 06 Oct 2020 at 6:10pm |
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"You can always tell what was the best year of your father's life, because they seem to just freeze that clothing style and just ride it out to the end, don't they? And it's not like they don't continue shopping, it's just they somehow manage to find new old clothes. Every father is like this fashion time capsule, you know what I mean. It's like they should be on a pedestal, with someone next to 'em going 'This was 1965'." -Jerry Seinfeld
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BlueTrain
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Posted: 06 Oct 2020 at 12:53pm |
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Someone here mentioned taste and how a person's tastes mature. Well, I think that some point one's tastes become fixed and cease to evolve--at least to some extent. We might realize one day that we're wearing the same style clothes that we wore 30 or 40 years ago, more or less. Of course, some things really haven't changed much in that time, like jeans, although there have been variations in styles. But a few basic styles are still around. Some styling variations are fairly subtle, though, but I haven't seen anyone wearing bell bottoms lately. Were they still in style 30 or 40 years ago?
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likeacannon
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Posted: 06 Oct 2020 at 11:49am |
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Thanks attackwithstones! I didn’t think anyone else would join in when I originally posted, but after our conversation I think this is a great idea. Maybe I should change the name of the thread to “Are We Insane?”
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Noodle
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Posted: 30 Sep 2020 at 7:30am |
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For the most part its a consumerism fueld envy.
Its about the hunt, the "getting" it, thats so exciting. I have a few items, that i dont wear often, but then again, i wear my clothes in rotation, and depending the weather. I had winters, where ive basically just sported my deck jacket, since it was too rainy for a nice coat, or at least i felt like that. I also keep my warddrobe basic. I get an expensive shirt, eg a blue colored one, i dont really need another in blue. Same with boots and so on. Only exception i make is with Jeans... they are meant to wear out, so have 4 pairs of the same jeans i keep wearing in rotation.
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Mctoad
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Posted: 29 Sep 2020 at 11:10pm |
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I feel the same about mine too sometimes. I find I just wear it to work to wear it more but not feeling like it's super amazing anymore.
I love my Okinawa patrol shirt much more. In fact I own two. One that is very a very slim fit and mint not worn in and then another looser one that is so beautifully worn in. I feel like they are two different shirts. The CPO is a close second though yet still barely wear it.
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attackwithstones
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Posted: 29 Sep 2020 at 8:02pm |
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I am going to fall in line and put up my size small Liberty CPO for trade. I bought this new from Pants Shop Avenue when it came out. I didn't wear it as much as I wanted because I should have gotten a medium. It has TONS of life left and deserves someone who would wear it regularly. I am looking for a few things... John Lofgren M-43 Service Boots Size 7 Buzz Rickson M-43 Service Boots Size 7 Mister Freedom 7161's Size 34 or 36 Mister Freedom Denim Riders Dungarees Size 34 or 36 Mister Freedom 10th Anniversary Indigo Canvas Chinos Size 34 or 36 Mister Freedom 10th Anniversary Indigo Canvas CPO Size Large Mister Freedom Signal Vest Size Large What else ya got from MF for trade? |
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Sell me your Mister Freedom stuff. :)
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BlueTrain
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Posted: 16 Sep 2020 at 2:39am |
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There's a quote from a so-so B-movie about a prospector/trapper up in Alaska made about 30 years ago. Talking about looking for gold, he said it's really the looking for it that's the thing. The he said, "On second thought, it's the finding of it."
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bartlebyyphonics
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Posted: 15 Sep 2020 at 1:28am |
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good thread. right attitude to take: to give objects the same care with which they have been obtained...
I'd need an xl for those who have a spare one of those... as to desire: there is indeed a long debate as to whether desire is a relation to 'lack'... (that object-of-desire which I do not have, so compulsively chase in circles {secretly enjoying my failure to find that object - which is always structurally absent, as posters have stated, once it is found/materialised the psychic charge leaves it and lodges in some other absence} ... certainly online shopping [and consumption as a system of objects] taps into this endless loop quite effectively) ... or whether desire is productive; it makes us do things, makes the world turn ... the desire to give subjects and objects time and care is certainly a productive action... edit: to add to this, Marcel Mauss' esteemed book on gift-giving (first published mid 1920s) and the relations of obligation and solidarity they produce (from an anthropological point of view...) [not much of a gift, but perhaps an object for the context]
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58panheadfan
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Posted: 14 Sep 2020 at 6:58am |
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There was a time when I was more pleased when the postman
appears as the content of a delivered parcel. Thenceforce, I knew something was
not quit right in my head... That's why I have greatly reduced my collection of
clothes in the last few years (there were really many that went through my
hands at times). For now, I am happy every time wearing some of it and no longer when
I buy something ...
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