Withnail's Coat and I
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Withnail's Coat and I
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#2Ah, la culture. It's the enemy's pareksalons this time!
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#3I 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.
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#4A 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.
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#5Pictures 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...
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#6I 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.
I'm not sure it's a fractal nature of detail, it might just be a vague reference to an old movie.
Re: Withnail's Coat and I
#7Ah, la culture. It's the enemy's pareksalons this time!
Par excellence ?
Re: Withnail's Coat and I
#8I 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.
I'm not sure it's a fractal nature of detail, it might just be a vague reference to an old movie.
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.
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#9I 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.
I'm not sure it's a fractal nature of detail, it might just be a vague reference to an old movie.
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