O.W. Root
@NecktieSalvage
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Writer / Style / Cultural Research / Modern Life
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Joined July 2019
To read more of my substantial writing subscribe to - . THE FITTING ROOM .Daily Style Memos .Ivy/Prep American Style . MODERN LIVES .Longer and deeper personal essays, reflections and stories of modern life
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Go to Springfield, order the cat, the whole thing, medium rare, grab a beer or two, make it three, curly fries and coleslaw, grab a chair out back, ask for the barbecue sauce, tell them you know barbecue.
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Pour a drink. No ice. Bottom shelf. Open your email. Delete 50. Respond "sounds good to me" while you are four emails behind in the thread. Look at your messages. Send a thumbs up emoji. Another one. Another one. Open twitter. Like every tweet you see.
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I am officially calling for the standard issuing of these alarm clocks to every man, woman, and child in America. The era of the phone alarm is officially OVER. The time of this bad boy has returned.
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Normalize eating outside on sun dappled grounds, under leafy trees and stone just because it feels good.
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People forget how truly new the very delicate pet thing is and how little greatest generation and older cared about pets. Once you get past the boomers, it is a different world with different values. They would be considered very cruel and cold to most people today.
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Everybody is sick of your dog. Everybody is sick of seeing them on the planes.Everybody is sick of seeing them in the stores.Everybody is sick of pretending that they are like children. Everybody is sick of not saying they are sick of your dog. I just stepped in a big fat dog.
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Tennis is beautiful because it is basically the cheapest sport in the world and you can just put a court in a beautiful location and you get aesthetics, site, sport, sweat, and culture.
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Every man secretly longs to return to a world of hunter green Land Rovers and freshly fallen snow.
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My wife used to love dogs, then we had kids and she realized they weren't as important and in recent years, honestly, she has grown to kind of hate dogs (and the dog enablers) and the place they are occupying in our declining society. I am sure there are many others like her.
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The purpose of this account (menswear guy) is to subvert any kind of higher spirit of man as it relates to aesthetics and style. It exists to ankle-bite at any politician, figure or person who isn't a regime-slop guzzling neoliberal materialist. It's an op. It pretends to be
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We were at a playground with the kids a couple months back. A guy came walking up to us with his dog, he said "mind if I let him run around?". I said "Yeah, kind of". He said sadly (trying to guilt trip) "Ok, I guess I will go find somewhere else". This is a fenced playground.
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We aren’t prepared for slob old people. Slob old people didn’t really exist before in any of our memories. All of the old people in our memories are part of the generations that still cared, so old people in our minds are old men in button ups and grandmas in sweaters. But the.
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If you want to hear some real anti-homeless takes, talk to people who have family members who are homeless. They will, often, have very little sympathy and tell you how they have helped them for years, they burned 1000 bridges, are choosing it, how they are not perfect “victims”.
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That soft gold light from the headlight. Remember that? . It was still around not that long ago, the 90s. It's dead now. Halogen killed it. Now it's scorched blue the whole night.
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Everyone knows it, but all the extra tech stuff that is added to car dashboards, windows etc. isn't even worth it. It breaks, or costs a fortune to fix, and it doesn't even make your life that much better, and people just say they want something simple back.
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I remember the O.C. when I was in high school. A lot of people forget or are too young to know how basically normal things were for so long. You don’t have to go back a century or anything. It wasn’t perfect, but it was very different than today.
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The pure unadulterated face of degeneration nation. The level of hubris required to be a senator and present yourself like this regularly at events like this is beyond what most can understand. Remember, he makes 200k a year. Millions of normal people making a fraction of that.
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White shirt, small watch, chinos. So simple, so easy, beautiful. [1995]. Now, imagine 2023. Imagine if the shirt was tight around the chest and the waist, if the sleeve was constricted. Imagine if the pants were very slim. Imagine if the watch was large. Imagine sneakers.
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It's impossible to overstate the contribution Ralph Lauren made to keeping preppy style (and American style) alive and thriving, especially during years and decades where it felt like it was on the down and out. Of course for the most hardcores there were always the purest shops.
🚨NEW: Ralph Lauren receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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My father-in-law is a barber. He is insanely gifted. We were looking at a picture of frosted tips together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to do it. I will never forget his answer… . ‘We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.’”
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Very annoying when (most often) childless people get all high and mighty like they are some NYT food critic about stuff like this. It's really hard coming up with food for kids to eat every single day. I'd like to see childless people make it 4 days without running out of.
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Your clothes are more than just fabric. They are the face you show the world.
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One reason this kind of slobification is so disgusting is that there are millions of people in the United States who work low paying jobs with uniform expectations that are more demanding than this.
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I love rugs over rugs. It's disorganized, and thrown together. At first I didn't like that about it, I wasn't ready. But now I do. It's cozy. It's the opposite of gray sleek interior. It's the opposite of newness. It feels ancient and close.
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People used to drink alcohol at lunch during the workday but now lots of people would think you are kind of insane if you did. Interesting cultural change.
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Random clothing ads from 2 decades ago or more look like fantastical propaganda because most of these ads portrayed aspiration and magical-normalcy. Today, the entire era is one of degradation and glorified dysfunction. They are a different idea. They are hostile to today.
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We must retvrn to drinking at lunch, for the sake of our happiness. Enough is enough. We must enjoy life too.
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Everyone would basically be 50% happier if everyone dressed a little better. Clothes are everywhere. Everyone doesn't have to be a clothes hound, but if the girls looked pretty and the guys looked nice, people would be happier and even more optimistic about the future.
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There is a strong correlation between H1-B world and the efficiency maxxing lifestyle where there is no time for anything of culture because it's not productive. Notice how many of the tech bros are also total morons aesthetically, culturally, spiritually etc. Basically nothing.
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A perfect example of the kind of gutter-taste that has played no small role in American "conservatism" becoming a low-culture race to the bottom, a total embrace of vulgarity, just a different stripe. I shouldn't be surprised this is *still* kicking, but part of me is.
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We must return to the long overcoat to save the TFR and save the civilization. Every man looks powerful in an overcoat.
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The Power of Full Fit. Daniel Craig is more jacked than Sean Connery ever was (look up a picture of Connery on the beach), yet Connery looks stronger & more masculine due to the full fit of his jacket. The tight fit doesn't make Craig look strong, actually it's the opposite.
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It's the clean shaven face. No scruff. Generally classic clothing. No t-shirt or hoodie. Standard haircut, natural color. Not too long and not buzzed either. No heavy slick or anything either. This is basically that 80s - 90s look. It's not really a phenotype. It's just.
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There is no reason - none, zero, zilch - why any society should tolerate intentionally increasing death and violence from provably dangerous animals. This isn't like living among wild dangerous animals in their habitat, that's just the nature of living outside of a city etc. it.
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Harrison Ford, 1977. Smoking on tv during an interview. It's incredible how foreign this image feels to us today. It is from such a different world than ours. It's easy to rag on the 70s, but how does this make you feel?
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Bigger and bigger dogs encroaching in all these spaces is a good example of a de-modernization that you see in our degenerating society. Worse decorum, worse clothes, animals in stores. Would be unthinkable at a time of stronger higher modernity. Now we are in descent.
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If the majority of men dressed like this, things would be much better. It would shock us how many things could change. Our world is very dark now, men are very low. They don't need to be. It doesn't have to be like this. Aesthetics can change the trajectory of our world.
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Forever ago, probably 13 years back, I deleted my Facebook. Before I did it, I was talking to a friend and they said something like “but what if people want to get ahold of you?” And I said “they will call or text or email or ask someone, if they really want to”. I deleted it.
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These are so beautiful. And yet so many people would choose a larger, much uglier house instead. It's sadly true. But I love these. I think they are beautiful.
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30 years ago - 1994 - things like toys or video games etc. were not for adults. There was no mainstream support for these things as adult activities. They were understood clearly as things for children. Now, it's a different world. A better world? Answer yourself.
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The great thing about classic style is that it looks good on you no matter what age you are.
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Take this photo today and they would both be wearing some androgynous athleisure, sneakers, or maybe a hoodie and carrying a water bottle. Everything has just become lame.
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You grew up eating slop. Your parents weren't making you a 5 course meal every night. Seared Ahi tuna to your liking with 10/10 presentation. Old grans folk food 3 meals a day. No. You ate slop sometimes. We all did because our parents were parents. Stop LYING to seem "fancy.".
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You will miss the boomers when they are gone. That might make you mad but it’s true. You aren’t ready for the onslaught of idiocy that will come. You think you are but you aren’t. All your complaints are just part of not fully accepting just how much we are products of our time.
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There aren’t too many things that enjoy broad bipartisan support but hating the new extremely bright headlights is one of them.
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Being anti-legal weed in 2024 makes you 2 decades ahead of the curve. Watch and wait.
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Once the Boomers are gone, everything changes. If you are any sort of vaguely semi-traditional or normal Westerner, the Boomers are the only thing holding back a torrent of insanity. Once that big bloc is gone, everything changes. Maybe they were radical once, but today the.
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The most aggressively normal clothes imaginable feel like a breath of fresh air.
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Looking at old photos of trains in America is as close to looking at the remnants of Atlantis as you can come today. Was it real? Could it have been real? It feels like it wasn't real? What Happened?. You can hardly believe it.
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This is a good example of an extreme regimen which results in very low general adaptability (g).
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Going to start referring to not having tattoos as being a cleanskin.
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Beautifully Simple. White, stone and brown. No patterns, no stripes. Solid colors. Room in the arms, room in the legs, room around the chest. No (or very little) break. Belt is longer rather than shorter. Easy, simple, natural, beautiful.
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Cold and Earthy. The polar opposite of athleisure. You can't have this same fit if the sweater is thin or tight. You could recreate all the colors but unless the sweater is big and roomy the feeling is all off. Also note the LL Bean Gumshoes.
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Here's the deal with the dogs, I'm not smacking you in the face or hitting you in between the eyes, but this is the deal, and we all know it. I grew up with a dog, we loved her. She lived to be 19. So did my wife. But we all know this society is disordered in 100 ways. Things.
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1991. Everything about it. Everything about the clothes are so that era. Especially the tie, wow. You feel that essence so much.
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When you are wearing an overcoat walking through a sea of athleisure it’s like the sea parting before Moses.
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People didn't even let their dogs sleep inside back in the day. How do you think they would react to dogs in strollers? .Dogs on planes & in grocery stores?. This, while everyone else dresses like androgynous slobs as well. They would think society fell under some cult-spell.
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There is actually a kind of an unspoken animosity between dog-people and kid-people when it comes to the generation that is currently having children. You can kind of feel it. It's in the air. Sometimes you sense it when you pass on the street.
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Telling my son we can’t turn on the overhead light in the car because “it’s illegal at night” like my parents told me.
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We want to feel human. Old, little streets make us feel human. That’s why we like them.
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The demise of men's hats decades ago was a very unfortunate development in menswear. It was so pointless ultimately. The real tragic part is that today, unless you are over 65 or extremely unique, you basically just can't really wear a hat without it reading as a costume.
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Incredible juxtaposition of photos. The aesthetics tell a story. You get a sense that in that old photo with Jobs, there was still a connection to the organic world. The pages in the books, the wood. He was in the middle of a bridge. With Cook, it's pure synthetic nuworld.
Steve Jobs’s office versus Tim Cook’s office. I think this says a lot about why Apple “feels” different under Cook
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Hard to describe but this is a very dark physiognomy. It’s not only the face but the reactions etc… He’s boiling underneath. There are guys who have a very dark energy, you can feel it if you are astute. I bet he was into really messed up dark cartoons when he was young.
This show every ep. You are a whore .Ya dad doesn’t love you .No guy will marry you .I’m a very smart guy because I figured this out.
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Now imagine if he was wearing a hoodie with some joke phrase on it, an apple watch, and pajama pants with some dumb graphic. It's an alien world.
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Very nice. 9 times out of 10, all graffiti does is make the world look dumber and uglier. Not only is it largely stupid in message (if it ever has one), but the aesthetic is generally one of an ugly cartoon. It's actually kind of crazy that we don't punish it more.
Satisfying graffiti cleanup .
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Synthetic athleisure slop is pushed on you to mold you into the androgynous nuhuman of a dark-future. Its hidden goal is to make the form of man into a pliable amorphous form of cultural nothing-ness. You can inflict damage on this program by representing a greater form.
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Incredible photo from 1946. The juxtaposition is so striking. You can feel the severe and imposing thrust into the future so strongly. Emerging from the haze - tomorrow. It is a tragedy Art Deco didn't continue in full force for a century. It was a different kind of future.
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The power of the long double-breasted overcoat is unparalleled.
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People can’t read. They really can’t. I know that sounds crazy, but it’s true. They may be able to sound out the words but the reading comprehension is so bad that they essentially cannot be considered literate.
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Now imagine him wearing a t-shirt and holding a water bottle. Doesn't really hit the same does it?
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Kid culture (and the fawning facilitation of lots of organized kids activities) is interesting. It didn't really exist before the 50s. Grotesque high school sports palaces and 80 million dollar high schools are the current extreme point we are at in the acceleration.
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Insanely cool glasses. Super 80/90s. Problem is many guys who might try to wear them today do so in an obviously ironic way *and* the rest of their appearance is slobbish so it just looks goofy, stupid. But if you nail everything else super straight & strong; can be very cool.
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What you wear matters. You can make your world look nicer or uglier. You can make yourself feel better or worse. You can make others feel happier or sadder. Clothes matter
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Guys like it when girls dress nice.Girls like it when guys dress nice
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