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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...

I've always loved the blocking in this particular shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l72yHLiw3H4

It makes you appreciate the amount of effort that goes into getting everything just right in film.

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.

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.

Is rare tweed fractal detail or is it just an oddball fact?

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

Don't worry, I completely agree with your original comment and think CyberDildonics is being a bit of a dildo in this case...

I ask reasonable questions and because of that you insult me?

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

Fractal means that something has a fractional spatial dimension. Ie, a fractal plane filling curve would have a dimension somewhere between 1 and 2

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.

Yes! I hadn't known about Prince Charles' involvement, but its popularity declined drastically in the 70s. Big revival now though.

Fascinating 'hobby drama' story about tweed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/10nps05/fashion...

English royalty does this from time to time, through different means.

The Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward, Prince of Wales) is credited with popularizing and essentially "saving" or bringing the Fair Isle sweater to global fashion prominence in the 1920s.

Three thousand pounds for a replica: https://www.andrea-galer.co.uk/withnail-store/mens-withnail-...

The article veers into a loose advertisement for the designer selling replicas.

Not so much replicas as the original maker selling additional editions

TBH if you're the kind of person who wants one might as well go to the source

I looked for this coat, or one like it not so long ago. I found Andrea Galer is making them tailored to order for £2-£3k . Something I can't afford unfortunately. If anyone knows if anything passably similar let me know!

Ah, la culture. It's the enemy's pareksalons this time!

Par excellence ?

No; like pantaloons but smart.

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