add 30 years and you have yourself a jacob rees mogg
Perhaps it is this man’s display of the wealth required to buy these dandy clothes which procures said marriage proposals.
Meanwhile I, despite flawless erudition, am judged by my daily wear of “wife beater” apparel. I blame the casual utterance of such profanities.
If my tank top offends any woman for being wife beater toppage, I say to her “Madam, I have no wife. Would you please to hand me another beer from yonder fridge?”
He’s a tailor, and makes the clothes himself.
Good grief.
We call those “vests” it sleeveless shirts in Australia, and they don’t have any bad image, they just suggest the wearer exercises or is very bothered by heat, or (with the plain white ones) has taken off a button-up shirt
The fairer sex sees not but the belligerent blustering of a bedswerving bobolyne!
live poetry
Hard to gauge a persons wealth by their clothes in today’s world.
Just reminded me, when I was 21 my credit card had a 500 limit but I was asked to travel. Company cards were NOT a thing here, only the CFO had one so they were forced to put me up places with a corporate account. Because of this was staying in a very ritzy four star hotel near silicon valley for a whole month and I had a Sunday check in to get settled. Being young broke and largely oblivious to social norms in a way only a lower class homeschooled kid with ADHD could be I showed up for check in warring ripped khaki rock climbing pants and a stretched out Ramones tanktop with a flannel tied around my waste. The old folks behind me were talking under their breath about how " you really cant tell" and new internet money is changing all the rules. Lmfao they had no idea that I couldnt afford more than the rental car deposit
It’s ‘waist’ when referring to your belt or belly button line
I’m on a pretty good income, my partner and I can afford a one month overseas holiday every year or so and I dress in a mix of jeans off the internet, chosen for their lifespan, and hawaiian shirts from a mass market fashion store
I dress brightly, not at all expensively. When I dressed a lot like this as a kid in the '80s I had to change before the family went to a club for dinner in order to meet the dress code. The clubs are more relaxed now.
You really can’t judge people’s wealth on their dress standards, though there is class encoded in clothes
Ha looks like you found a missed steak
This joke would work better if you knew how to use words like “profanities”, “toppage”, and “yonder” correctly
There’s always somebody who sees an “iamverysmart” joke post as a personal threat.
this whole thread hurts me. ugh
guy makes his own clothes, or at least that was the case originally.
i have big respect. let the man slay. you’re welcome to your wife-beaters, and others are welcome to their finery.
The post you’re replying to is painfully obviously a joke
the intended tone is clearer to me this morning. look, i’m part of a niche fashion community and other people can get very weird about it. i think i was responding with my frustration toward multiple comments + my own experiences.
I weep for thy sanity, to live amongst such foppery.
Perhaps it’s all in his head.
And perhaps you, dear fellow, exist only in your own head, which itself exists inside the room you’re in, which is furthermore in your head as well.
Why don’t we dress cool anymore?
I wouldn’t really apply the word cool to a meticulously thought out, complicated outfit. Cool invokes effortlessness, this is anything but. This is impressive and grandiloquent.
We’re not hiding the odeous stench of our bodies anymore.
I regularly wear a full-length cloak in public. Nothing is stopping you
Lots of people do. Wear whatever you want.
Not like this they don’t! At least not in any of the places I frequent. Sure, people will dress pretty slick for formal parties now. I guess maybe this was all formal wear for its era, and not something worn daily. Or maybe it was worn daily for the very wealthy.
Yeah this was pretty rare fashion in its era, a small selection of the very rich wore it but most people were dressed far more blandly than the average today
Yeah. They do.
join a fashion hobbyist community. there are, in fact, many groups for people who want to dress up. some people dress up quite a lot, and this guy is an example.
I could dress cool… for money.
Or with money.
Ew, gross! Kill it! Kill it with fire!
Biggest reason? Dressing this fancy is expensive. Prohibitively, in many cases, at least as an every day thing. I like to dress up from time to time, but I would need a lot more fancy clothes in order to dress up to that degree every day.
People did used to look batter back in the day.
Its also nice that every culture had their own style. Now everyone wearing jeans and a t shirt is bad, but the awful american dad sneakers and white socks with baseball cap does it.
We need to go back. At least on special occasions or something. Don’t think going the UK and everyone wearing a suit or going to Japan and everyone wearing a Kimono is better?
I mean, by people I think you mean people with money. People dress appropriate to their station. People then doing manual labor couldn’t afford clothes like the dude in the post and wouldn’t have wasted money on clothes that weren’t durable and easily cleaned.
T-shirt and jeans became the standard due to their cheap cost to manufacture, durability, and standardized sizes and popularity in the mining, farming, and railroad industry, and again with WWII.
Not a lot of jobs these days that allow for fancy dress and not many people can afford their own tailor. Not to mention temperatures were much cooler back then allowing all those extra layers, where as now you’d melt in some parts.
Of course I don’t mean the lower classes would wear a suit like that.
They would wear different clothes. But trousers, waistcoat, shirt are standard British clothing for all classes.
Here’s some miners
The only people that actual seem to dress British are people that work in finance and schoolchildren. Thank God for uniforms.
Fair enough
I’ve met people like this. They tend to have delusions about their wierd thing. Im confident those proposals were mostly in his head or from one off jests.
I used to dress weird (anything from HS Thompson in Fear and Loathing to Victorian-ish numbers to goth stuff) for the hell of it and got a lot more positive attention than otherwise. I suppose it was effort and confidence more than anything else, but who knows. I never took it very seriously, so not sure what the article’s subject’s real story is.
Getting more tangental but thought I would share. I went to fandom cons in my youth and middle age and some fen had like costume identities. We stopped by a guys place spontaneously because we were in the area and when he answered he was like. Give me a min and then came back in his costume and invited us in.
Nah I’m sure he got some joke proposals from people that are actually attracted to his eccentric dress code
I mean, he does look pretty sharp. It’s just kind of silly at the same time
What’s funny is that he sort of bragged about these joke proposals to the article
joke proposals
one off jests
Those are the same things
I’m a school bus driver and I’ve been proposed to by third-graders. I don’t exactly take them seriously since I’m older than their grandparents.
I want to stab him and take his little sack of silver coins.
You probably don’t even need to stab, they obviously can’t count
yeah this kid wouldn’t have survived a day at any of the schools I went to. glad to see people are kinder I guess.
I don’t believe it.
Can one count forward to where they started? I could entertain the argument 0 is uncountable, it exists but it has no effect, it’s only a starting place, until exponents and calculus come into play, but that’s where I got off the math train
Quite, AUSTENtacious, if I do say. Ho ho ho ho
It says “countless offers of marriage” but not that it was women offering to marry him. So it could also be dudes. Schrödinger’s sexuality I guess.
I’d marry him to share his wardrobe
Could also be a null value making it uncountable
Zero is countable
True and null isn’t.
One dude, who keeps creating new accounts to beg him for his hand in marriage.
he’s in a long-time relationship with another man. my guess is his “proposals” run the gamut (and i expect a majority are made in jest).
Friend of a friend of the working class
So instead of wearing the uniform of the modern elitist class he’s wearing the uniform of a prior eliteist class. Is not reinforcing class division, but it’s still tacky as hell.
Just use regency era dating standards, showing ankles is basically a proposal right?
I just wear shit from gap and have been married three times
get on my level noob
The Gap gets a lot of hate in my experience but I don’t give a fuck because all their clothes are comfy and fit my frame perfectly
This says a lot about the human condition.
Sure, buddy
No, really, he had received countless offers of marriage. Mostly from young gay men. OK, exclusively from young gay men, but it still counts.
If you’re a young gay man, that’s all you would want anyway, right?
Ok, it was exclusively from “somewhat old” gay men and obscenely drunk cat ladies.
obscenely drunk cat ladies.
Hm, where can I get an outfit like that?
You start with one cat. Then go to 7/11 for booze.
Wake up in the morning thinking you thought you let the cat out, but really you let the back alley cats in. So is life.
