▲Withnail's Coat and I(ontherow.substack.com)
98 points by apollinaire 1 day ago | 4 comments
▲vi_sextus_vi 2 hours ago
Pictures are 1953 and WWI Scots Guards frocks

https://bid.candtauctions.co.uk/lot-details/index/catalog/11...

https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/91425-scots-guards-unifo...

that "Scottish romanticism" all but evaporated by the turn of the century, so the "typo"?

Actual 1800s SG uniform

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/uniformi-militari--84443180375...

For comparison, the "timeless" Grenadier Guards frock

https://thelanesarmoury.co.uk/shop.php?code=21282

Bonus: Caspar David Friedrich (another appropriation :)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/152982/an-intro...

▲redfloatplane 4 hours ago
I love it when this kind of thing surfaces on HN. It’s always so enjoyable to have the fractal nature of detail in the world shown to you. Really nice to read as well.
▲CyberDildonics 1 hour ago
I'm not sure it's a fractal nature of detail, it might just be a vague reference to an old movie.
▲sdwr 1 hour ago
Yeah, fractal means you see the same structure, or an equally complex structure, at the smaller scale. This is just details, there's no sustained complexity
▲redfloatplane 1 hour ago
Did you read the article? It's entirely about a concrete artefact from that old movie, down to the kind of tweed, now made by only six people in Scotland. I'm not sure how you come to this response.
▲CyberDildonics 38 minutes ago
Is rare tweed fractal detail or is it just an oddball fact?
▲redfloatplane 32 minutes ago
Maybe I meant that the amount of detail is sustained no matter how close you look? Maybe I was careless with my words? This is unnecessarily pedantic. I enjoyed the article. See you another time, CyberDildonics
▲sudb 3 hours ago
A tangential but interesting takeaway for me from this is that Harris Tweed was at some point in danger of dying out and that it was saved (?!) by now King Charles.
▲balamatom 4 hours ago
Ah, la culture. It's the enemy's pareksalons this time!
▲toed 1 hour ago
Par excellence ?
▲balamatom 50 minutes ago
No; like pantaloons but smart.