Admiral Cod

AN ESSAY IN ATTITUDES

30 December 2008

Waltzing Trad

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Can you dance? Believe it or not, I can. It’s not something about which I am very talkative. But when I was aged 10, my mother enrolled me i...
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Reds Don't Surf !

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24 December 2008

Merry Christmas 2008

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Truefitt & Hill 1805

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19 December 2008

The Australian

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Imperial German Dueling Club

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Today's university students, one might argue, are inveterate louts. Our ancestors were a sturdier breed. In the photo (above) note the h...
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18 December 2008

First Love: A Tribute to Gin

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For my 15th birthday in South Kensington, one of my neighbours surreptitiously gave me a bottle of Beefeater gin. My neighbour was a buxom F...
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Black Shoes, Black Heart

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As you may have heard, I have a new-found appreciation for my black shoes. And not just any old black shoes, such as those plastic, square-t...
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17 December 2008

Hergé in Tweed

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From the top floor of my uncle's five-story townhouse opposite the Victoria & Albert Museum, I could see the sparkling traffic light...
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10 December 2008

City Stripes Celebration

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From my teenage years onward, I have had a thing for business shirts with narrow, evenly-spaced stripes. Today they are referred to as beng...
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09 December 2008

'Heroes' (Bowie)

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V-2 Schneider (Bowie)

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24 November 2008

Arcadia Of My Youth

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"I fight for no one's sake...only for something deep in my heart."
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12 November 2008

Russian Gulag Tattoos

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British Style Genius- The Street Look (BBC)

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11 November 2008

c'est par-delà la mort

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"Le combat de la vie, le fardeau de l'individualité. A l'opposé, l'indivis et ses tourbillons toujours plus profonds. Aux i...
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10 November 2008

Undying WASPs

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Joseph Palmi: " We Italians have family. The Jews have tradition. What do you people have ?" Edward Wilson: " We have the U...
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05 November 2008

Born To Lose (Johnny Thunders)

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27 October 2008

Southwick Suit and Alden Tassel Loafers

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This morning I met with a local chap to discuss the market. He makes infrequent appearances on CNBC. In the rare candid photo (above), I am ...
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22 October 2008

The Last Days of South Africa, With Pints of Bitter at Kavanagh's Afterwards

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Following my career as a quasi-mercenary in South Africa in the late 1990s (about which I will write more later), I ended up back in London,...
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10 October 2008

Alden Tassel Loafer

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09 October 2008

contre le monde moderne

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Tassel Loafers: Shoes of the Counter-Revolution

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"In France, the tasseled loafer makes its own peculiar political statement. John Vinocur, the executive editor of The International Her...
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06 October 2008

Inner Emigration

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"Whenever you experience mental vacillation, cast your mind back to the Greco-Roman mentality as it was before the second century....
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03 October 2008

Platform Tennis Hall of Famers

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01 October 2008

The Chronicles of Argyle

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The day is late and the storm clouds gather, but it is imperative we persist in style. This is no time to lower standards. In these cooler d...
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Austrian Nationalist Style

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Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPO), which recently received over 18% of the vote in the Austrian elec...
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29 September 2008

Credo (Arvo Pärt)

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26 September 2008

Interview: Trevor Myburgh

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Trevor Myburgh is author of the forthcoming The Hotchkiss Quandary (Castelmann, 2017) and a co-founder of the Tradpunk literary movement. H...
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25 September 2008

On Sideburns

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Never trust a man with sideburns. It is a motto by which I have lived my life, and I think you should too. I think sideburns are repulsive a...
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