Réginald-Jérôme de Mans
@RJdeMans
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Author of SWAN SONGS: SOUVENIRS OF PARIS ELEGANCE, available at Part of the TMGEU (Twitter menswear guy extended universe)
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Now available for all non-fascists: Swan Songs: Souvenirs of Paris Elegance at
America’s leading authoritarian intellectual (lol) once called it “Proust on clothes”. Let’s hope he was less wrong about my book than all his fascist/racist stuff.
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We regret to inform you that Prince Siddharta Gautama has contracted the woke mind virus and become the Buddha
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@dieworkwear
“why does menswear guy have to make everything political? there’s nothing political about urban planning, modes of consumption, or social hierarchies.”
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@dieworkwear
@sciolisticism
Uber driver: “your ride is here.”
Menswear Guy: “actually my ride began in 1809 when a young Beau Brummell appropriated the casual riding wear that noblemen wore in the countryside and made its garments the fashionable dress grammar in town.”
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@dieworkwear
At the end of a party I threw in grad school the last few of us had a drawn out discussion with a guy who tried to convince us that Kentucky Fried Chicken changed its name to KFC because it could no longer call the headless monstrosities it had genetically engineered “chicken”…
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@dieworkwear
@ianjhurst
@localabamon
Only fools believe meritocracy exists currently, or that one can define merit without following the normative contours of systemic bias
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@LethalityJane
it’s right there in the title: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.
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@KillJamesBond
JORDAN PETERSON: “And there’s this quiet fellow <sniffs>, Vargas. And <sniffles> Vargas doesn’t… doesn’t drink. He <voice quavers> doesn’t smoke. <single tear forms> He doesn’t <voice breaks> make love. <tears flowing> What does Vargas <sobs> DO????”
Jordan Peterson ripping off the rat king fable that Silva tells to James Bond in Skyfall but telling it as fact is killing me
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@dieworkwear
@layerzerojack
Thanks Derek. Drakes used to have a little hidden MD on the content label but doesn’t always have it anymore although they also are focusing on their own Drakes-labeled production more. Seaward & Stearn has a little “VII-Fold” on the label even though their ties aren’t.
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@dieworkwear
Love the thought process that is “I thought I was following menswear guy not woke bigot guy”
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Almost everyone assumes
@dieworkwear
is obsessed with classic menswear (ie suits) since he talks about them so much. But what he’s actually talking about is respectability politics: people using suits to project authority or moral, intellectual or cultural superiority.
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@dieworkwear
derek I’m pretty pretty sure Mike has come around to be quite positive about Black Shirts. Brown ones too.
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@EndOfTheWedge
@ianjhurst
@dieworkwear
@localabamon
well yeah the same lifting that dude’s blue check is doing
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@dieworkwear
@layerzerojack
Drakes bought Cravats of London some years ago which took one competitor off the market. Another maker some tailors use is Hunters, a successor to the old Holliday & Brown. Their ties have a little bugle on the content label. Others have used Vanners, which makes ties as well as
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@dieworkwear
@federalfarmers
while you were walking everywhere, that loser you’re replying to was studying the blade and mastering the blockchain
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@lionel_trolling
@OBEYfeline
Also was Lee ever a general in a real army? I believe he was only ever a colonel in the US army
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@dieworkwear
@layerzerojack
weaving silk, and their ties have a little crown on the content label.
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OK, entering the menswear guy’s breach again. This poast in derek’s tweetthread about the shallowness of most media about luxury fashion, especially luxury craft fashion like custom shoemakers, got stuck in my head like a Steven Seagal Epic Guitar Solo. Let’s explicate/explode it
Articles about luxury fashion often follow a formula: allude to aspirational lifestyles, use vague words like "quality," and reference famous customers (e.g., Old Money and celebs). Here's an excerpt about GJ Cleverley:
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@dieworkwear
He had two books out for those of us too cowardly to get a tattoo. And sells temporary tattoos. I played with putting a few on my shoes to imitate the Berluti shoe tattooing.
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@dieworkwear
@man2deeep
@voxsartoria
And in common parlance the terms are often used interchangeably. A decade ago savile row tailors sued a company advertising its factory made to measure suits were “ bespoke “ and a court ruled that there wasn’t a legal definition of bespoke that restricted it to what derek & I
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@dieworkwear
@CarlosRsuccess
I mean one is an awesomely cool looking star and the other Ben Shapiro, which is to say I don’t know Ben would look cool in the other guys get up
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@AliceAvizandum
And hey, let’s not forget the government in power asked the Brits if they wanted to send a ship over to pick up the Romanovs and George V was like,,,,,,, I’ll pass.
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@KillJamesBond
Wait wait how could I forget… Michael Flatley’s infamous vanity spy movie Blackbird
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@dieworkwear
Light fabrics like zephyr weave cotton or a light linen can help. Same for tropical weave wool. Not sure what your reply guy was on about saying overweight men in tropical climates should wear chains.
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@KillJamesBond
uh, I was a Bond dork who was sick of Bond and got drawn into KJB, then started watching
@PhilosophyTube
and became a
@trashfuturepod
listener to find out more about Jerk van der Klerk
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@dieworkwear
@jonahrexer
Note that reknitting is a different skill than reweaving. For sweaters I use Knit Alteration and Design in Washington state - excellent work but there’s a long wait. And all of these repairs will cost a great deal.
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@dieworkwear
Maybe we step back and consider how historically perhaps a lot of men’s fashion has been set by teh gheyz and then decades later looks normal enough for fash creeps to wear
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@dieworkwear
@princess_worms
Imagining some square in Quantico reading your message derek and muttering, “We’re not the _Fashion_ Bureau of Investigation.”
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@georgehahn
someone should do memorabilia with the pic of him sprinting away from the 1/6 mob captioned “Run Hawley Run”
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hi new readers. Derek’s earned the name Mahatma Jawndi on one of the clothes forums and he certainly has the patience of a great soul to be trying to discuss menswear here in 280 characters. I notoriously am not concise so bear with me.
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@drmistercody
Particularly in the US thanks to the myth of meritocracy in one of the ironically most unequal developed economies
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@Charles_Lister
“No collateral damage” from a bunch of flying blades? did a raytheon write this
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@dieworkwear
@GammasRaze
One of the great things about Menswear Guy is he is one of about three people in this space who is not doing ads or sponcon, or trying to get free stuff.
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@dieworkwear
@sctideprince
@beck_cake_odds
While some are saying “Go Brown shoes with Navy!” or “Go black shoes with navy!” I’m saying “Go Memswear Guy and the rule of law!”
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@steinkobbe
@randygdub
I guarantee you Elon will come up with a fake birth certificate that has him born on 4/20/69
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He knows just as much about casual or cutting edge fashion as the suit but most readers assume they know enough about informal dress and dismiss cutting edge stuff so what he ends up getting prompted about ends up being tailoring.
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@flgatorking1987
“Side effects may include idiopathic toe walking. If effects continue for over four hours, get your feet into the tallest-heeled pair of shit-kicking cowboy boots stat.”
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@kittensnotkids
@prince_bazemore
@dieworkwear
@J_Carlyle_
Some had a valet dress them. So perhaps it is the valet who was well dressing rather than them being well dressed. I dunno, Derek asked me to name well dressed idiots and here we are. Being well dressed doesn’t mean a god damn thing about personal (non-financial) worth,
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