An Orwellian Thought
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket
- Eric Arthur Blair
Why we debate lapel width for hours..
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
- Sigmund Freud
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
- Paul Ricoeur
To the #menswear brethren: Heed this advice. It’s not new, and it’ll never get old.
It is a good thing to want to learn the importance of fit, the significance of proportion and the relevance of balance with respect to your dress. It is a better thing to dress for your context and to not merely imitate everyone else, lest you look like an awkward soul in someone else’s clothes.
Be yourself. It is perhaps the greatest thing you’ll ever do.
Black is essentially a politically and culturally constructed category, which cannot be grounded in a set of fixed trans-cultural or transcendental racial categories and which therefore has no guarantees in Nature
Stuart Hall (1988)
The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
- Oscar Wilde
Never stop learning.
- Oscar Wilde
Never stop learning.
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