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Shelwood
09/12/09

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This makes perfect sense. Since the Billyburg types have been aping '70s style, it was inevitable that one would dig out The Preppy Handbook from 1980. Call it what you will, it's still a rerun.
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valet_of_the_dolls
09/09/09

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This makes an interesting companion to the Anna Wintour piece of earlier today. Someone who seems to have shed her previous self (or selves) as definitively as possible, and someone who so lovingly curates his past that it seems he'd go back there permanently, if he could.
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nicepony
09/09/09

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I hate when they try to make a trend out of nothing.
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deardearfriend
09/09/09

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This is wrong, and showing my own prejudice, but as soon as I saw that picture, I thought, "I bet I'd hate that guy."
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snugbug
09/09/09

@deardearfriend: No, you're in the right, honey. White socks worn with black shoes = affront to humanity.
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BookishLatkeish
09/09/09

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Don't Trad on Me

(and the little snake has a man's Belgian Loafer in his pisk)
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dotorg greg
09/09/09

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Trad was the name of at least one Authentic American Preppy fetishism trend in Japan, maybe two [Trad, New Trad?] that has been re-imported to the US.

J. Press is a subsidiary of the Tokyo garmento conglomerate Onward Kashiyama. Has been since 1986.
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Smitros
09/09/09

@dotorg greg:
Domo aregato re: the garmento.
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TabithaIapetus
09/09/09

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Don't Trad on me.
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BookishLatkeish
09/09/09

@TabithaIapetus: Ah , you beat me, I bow to your superior talent!
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TabithaIapetus
09/09/09

@BookishLookish: Oh please.. my only talent is typing.
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smithhimself
09/09/09

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I've worn my Brooks Brothers blazer everywhere in New York. I've worn it at strip clubs and the Metropolitan Club, at dive bars and the second floor lounge at the Yale Club.

I suppose it's "trad," but the real reason is that I have a complete lack of fashion sense.

I know that I can wear this article of clothing pretty much anywhere, and even a harsh critic like BookishLookish will consider me well dressed.
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BookishLatkeish
09/09/09

@smithhimself: Double dare you.
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snugbug
09/09/09

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Cankle this, cankle that. You guys are served a pupu platter of delicious potential mock-worthy topics, and you choose to overwhelmingly focus on the lamest and most obvious thing of them all--a physical characteristic that a person can't do anything about. Give me a major break. Now I feel sorry for "cankle" guy.
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son of spam
09/09/09

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Where to begin? The word trad. Right there you know the guy is full of wannabe shit. Second, trying too hard. Overdressed for a tennis match. Third, what the hell kind of shoes are those? They're not penny loafers, they're not oxfords, they're poxfords or something. Fourth, forgetting that fact that they are white and have a logo on the cankle, why socks at all? Fifth, judging from the ankle girth, the guy is a fat shit, which, as we all know, indicates that he is poor because obesity is a socioeconomic problem. He should probably focus more on his insurance career.
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BookishLatkeish
09/09/09

@son of spam: "A poxford upon thee," FTW, spammy.
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MrInBetween
09/09/09

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On that pink sock: The Family Crest of Cankle.
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The Lone Scout
09/09/09

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The first rule of trad is, You don't talk about trad.

Not, anyway, if you are actual, lower-case-t, frayed-at-the-cuffs, button-downed trad. No logos. No bragging. No seats in the stratosphere.

Thanks for puncturing the "Trad" pretentiousness, Ham.
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SidAndFinancy
09/09/09

@The Lone Scout: Exactly. I was at the J. Press summer sale a couple of months ago, and at the counter they were offering "TRAD" lapel pins. Really, J. Press? And even Bean now plasters its name all over its merchandise. What is the world coming to?
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BookishLatkeish
09/09/09

@SidAndFinancy: That's grim. Where are my sweet, well-brought-up white boys going to shop now?
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The Lone Scout
09/09/09

@SidAndFinancy: Wow. And to think how I used to shop at J. Press because Brooks Brothers was too flashy. (And I am talking about the years before BB started selling purple shirts.)
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SuperBien
09/09/09

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Now I know the next time I get a tendonitis attack in my ankle, I can go to Brooks Brothers for a cool Trad ace bandage that's all embroidered and shit. Thanks Gawker Photographer at the U.S. Open!
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Smitros
09/09/09

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Let's eliminate the confusion now and call this look by its proper name: Choad.
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richardmarxhatesmyhair
09/09/09

@Smitros: we call it "The Spaulding."
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Smitros
09/09/09

@richardmarxhatesmyhair:
I'm glad someone has the balls to say that.
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SidAndFinancy
09/09/09

@Smitros: "Ahoy, polloi!"
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Smitros
09/09/09

@SidAndFinancy:
You called? I come from a long line of . . . nobody in particular.
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SidAndFinancy
09/09/09

@Smitros: I know. I'm standing right behind you in the line. Could you hold my spot while I use the bathroom? Thanks.
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snugbug
09/09/09

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It's ridiculous how much enjoyment I'm getting out of this post. The Trad blog is hysterical--author = a 12-year-old Jonas Brothers female fan trapped into the body of a 52-year-old male insurance exec. He's posting pics of his "trad" belts and writing magical, droolly entries about them.

Also, the "trad guru" who is the voice of authority in the NYO piece? He studied European history at Yale but found true self-actualization working the floor as a retail clerk at J. Press.

Love it. LOVE IT.
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fakefakejazz
09/09/09

@snugbug: RE The Trad blog: agreed. It's mesmerizing.

I'd also add that our man seems to take a fair amount of his literary inspiration from J. Peterman:

"On our first date, we sat in a green vinyl booth at the Holiday Inn on the beach, drank $4 cocktails, smoked cigarettes from her silver case and talked about writing and writers. I looked past her and out the glass doors to the ocean and I remember thinking... I was a very long way from Ft Bragg."

Just substitute "Fairmont Monte Carlo" for "Holiday Inn" and "Istanbul" for "Ft. Bragg," and you're none the wiser.
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