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Paul Fairie

A Brief History of Nobody Dresses Well Anymore

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Paul Fairie replied to Paul

If you enjoy these threads, you'll enjoy the coffee table book I've written, about our repeated complaints (nobody wants to work anymore!), our love of blame & the wonderful world of newspapers. Manuscript is with the publisher & you can pre-order here:

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@paulisci So, the 1920s is when we stopped dressing well. Got it.

guites replied to Paul

@paulisci "Where are the wild-eyed tousled-haired fantastically clad undergraduates of popular fancy?" I'm mesmerized by this. And also on the look for signs of tousled hairdos.

Androcat replied to Paul

@paulisci This one has a salty wistfulness that I find charming.

Gurre Vildskägg

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Combo with the more modern (i.e. since the early 20th century) always-been-claimed "not enough parking".

David Crispin
@paulisci seems to be a story as old as time... Could probably go as far back as biblical times and get the same shit every decade...
PacificNic

@paulisci To be fair, people stopped dressing well in the 1800s, though there was a nice little blip in the 1920's.

mausmalone

@paulisci this thread just makes me think of all the people who bought into this notion of a "time traveling hipster" who was just, you know, a young man in 1941 in and among adults who probably thought he was under-dressed.

Paul Fairie

@mausmalone not time travelling, just "casual"

🍥SarahBurnout🍥

@paulisci

he looks as if he is dressed in college student casual.

it was misdirection cos the real time traveller was farther back almost out of frame.

@mausmalone

Sakshi 🌴🥥

I believe there are "kids, these days!" complaints found in papyrus scrolls from Ancient Egypt.

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ShawnT 🐀

@paulisci
I sometimes think about a guy in #Austin we derisively called "Three-Piece" at the cafe because he had the gall to dress up in a suit every day, despite the climate. Sonofabitch, he had the audacity to keep the style conversation going; he brought his A-game. And here most of us are, in our cargo shorts and tees, sweating just as much but looking the slouch for it.

Raphael Lullis

@paulisci I feel like pretty soon we will be able to make "a brief history of reposts of a brief history of nobody dresses well anymore"

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