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  • Lat-Literal
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    • Aug 2015
    • 6983

    #16
    Yep, you can see the sea. You need someone meaningful to make that fantastic, Otherwise, no. Surely, you have to look away from peoole themselves. Most of us drag it all down.

    I couldn't see any beauty beyond personality and that's rare - god forbid flesh and bone - the arrogance in that sort of oppression is so childish : authority is merely teens plus power.
    Last edited by Lat-Literal; 12-08-18, 02:15.

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    • Shane radcliffe
      Full Member
      • Nov 2018
      • 1

      #17
      Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
      It's style that counts, people, not fashion...!

      Like it.
      https://gogetdeals.co.uk/store/komodo

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      • ardcarp
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 11102

        #18
        But isn't style a sub-set of fashion? Discuss.

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        • Richard Tarleton

          #19
          Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
          But isn't style a sub-set of fashion? Discuss.
          The reverse, if anything, I'd have thought. Style - a way of doing things - for example.....

          Fashion - merely the preferred way of doing things at a particular moment - more ephemeral....

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          • ardcarp
            Late member
            • Nov 2010
            • 11102

            #20
            But a GCSE candidate might write (about the Classical era) "the Baroque Style went out of fashion". I suppose the fact is both 'style' and 'fashion' share a semantic element.

            I'm off to Pedants' Corner.

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            • jayne lee wilson
              Banned
              • Jul 2011
              • 10711

              #21
              "Fashion is ephemeral but style is eternal" was the original Coco Chanel quote....

              More recently Karl Lagerfeld (ultrastylish, never short of a sharp word and a cat lover too ) offered this variation:

              "​Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair".

              ....doubtless with the sweatshop/fastfashion/Primark etc chain of supply & demand in mind, but it has wider implications of course...

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              • Richard Tarleton

                #22
                Thanks for the quotes jayne - I don't think I knew the coco one....though the thread may have awakened a subconscious memory. My great grandfather was an artist in the William Morris tradition, trained by a pupil of his.

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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163

                  #23
                  "Style" is the individual way one uses fashion(s) - selecting from those of the past, the present, and those yet to come - isn't it?
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • ardcarp
                    Late member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 11102

                    #24
                    Aesthetics is in the title post too....another can of worms? Ugh. Doesn't sound very 'nice'.

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                    • Bryn
                      Banned
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 24688

                      #25
                      Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
                      "Fashion is ephemeral but style is eternal" was the original Coco Chanel quote....

                      More recently Karl Lagerfeld (ultrastylish, never short of a sharp word and a cat lover too ) offered this variation:

                      "​Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair".

                      ....doubtless with the sweatshop/fastfashion/Primark etc chain of supply & demand in mind, but it has wider implications of course...
                      I think Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills's original quote has greater vitality. There's little sincerity in either fashion or style, especially when waxed lyrical over.

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                      • vinteuil
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12801

                        #26
                        Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                        I think Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills's original quote has greater vitality. There's little sincerity in either fashion or style, especially when waxed lyrical over.
                        ... and of course only a Frenchman could have come up with - «le style c'est l'homme même... »



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                        • jayne lee wilson
                          Banned
                          • Jul 2011
                          • 10711

                          #27
                          Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                          I think Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills's original quote has greater vitality. There's little sincerity in either fashion or style, especially when waxed lyrical over.
                          Mr. Wilde has many lines on the subject, e.g. -

                          "“Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.”...
                          Or
                          “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”

                          Which did you have in
                          mind...?

                          AS someone who once followed fashion, ​bought lots of clothes etc., and now don't except where necessity compels, style is something I put together from a few decades worth of cast-offs, really.... which currently means wearing all-black much of the time, with adjustments for warmer weather....

                          Wait long enough, a past purchase goes from dated to reasonably contemporary or even classic.... just took at trends in jeans...

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                          • Bryn
                            Banned
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 24688

                            #28
                            Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
                            Mr. Wilde has many lines on the subject, e.g. -

                            "“Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.”...
                            Or
                            “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”

                            Which did you have in
                            [SIZE=3][FONT=proxima-nova][COLOR=#262728]mind...? . . .
                            “In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.” Hence the wax reference.

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                            • jayne lee wilson
                              Banned
                              • Jul 2011
                              • 10711

                              #29
                              Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                              “In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.” Hence the wax reference.
                              I guess it comes down to whether you see fashion or style as a matter of grave importance, really....

                              I think many people care more about how they look than they would like to admit...

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                              • ardcarp
                                Late member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 11102

                                #30
                                “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that's all.”

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