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The best part of the article is a section about his father's unwavering confidence that a turtleneck is the most flattering thing a man can wear—an inflexible and enduring axiom that, Tom writes, his father believed in more than the existence of God.
Excerpt reads: "Anytime my father wears a turtleneck, he is advancing a cause, and the cause is himself. That is what he means when he says that an article of clothing is “flattering.” That is where his maxim extolling the turtleneck acquires its Euclidean certainty. The turtleneck is the most flattering thing a man can wear because it strips a man down to himself – because it forces a man to project himself. The turtleneck does not decorate, like a tie, or augment, like a sport coat, or in any way distract from what my father calls a man’s “presentation;” rather, it fits a man in sharp relief and puts his face on a pedestal – first literally, then figuratively. It is about isolation, the turtleneck is; it is about essences and first causes; it is about the body and the face, and that’s all it’s about; and when worn by Lou Junod, it is about Lou Junod."
January 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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please keep on doing it. I miss living by the water.
November 18, 2024 at 12:50 AM