Formal Dress Forum

[Tom Plant]

- not, as it sounds, the title of a book on penal practices under Sharia law, but a response to Donald's suggestion that he asssume a short-cut jacket like those worn as military mess dress.

The cut has a certain Victorian rakishness about it, I suppose, but unless you are either confident or simply vain enough to expose your backside quite so candidly, I would heartily counsel against the adoption of said garment. While military types tend to get away with it, I cannot in good faith vouch equally for the quality of the Society's estimable members' estimable arses.

[Donald Renouf]

[s]Tom Plant wrote on 08:08, 27th Nov 2003:
...unless you are either confident or simply vain enough to expose your backside quite so candidly...

Oh, I am. Both.

[J.W.R Potton]

Oh, yes, Mr. Renouf- you do have the most lovely and pert arse. I know I most certainly would! Do show it off, yes please do, in a small jacket that allows me to look, lust and.....ahem!

[Donald Renouf]

And who the devil are you, sir?

[Laura]

Calm it down a bit chaps- its all getting a bit homoerotic on here, and Mr. Vit isn't even in town to join in..........

[exnihilo]

I'm with Renouf on this one, a more "mess" cut to the jacket would be splendid. It would look very smart indeed, I shall look into this.

To Mr Plant, surely removing one's jacket, or going out without one in the summer months is just as bad? I have no intention of cutting holes in my trous, so my arse would be no more on display than it often is. Considerably less so, in fact, as my jeans are markedly more snug fitting than my trous.

Finally, what's wrong with a bit of homo-eroticism? Unless it does involve Mr Vit, of course. Shudder.


[hr]"They are like their beer; foam on top, dregs on the bottom, but the middle excellent." - Voltaire on the English.

[exnihilo]

Hmm, post-reptition. Odd.

[Eliot Wilson]

I'm not sure about the mess cut. I think there may be a degree of arsal display which could be unpleasant. I prefer my Charlie - as it were - but I suppose it's a matter of personal taste.

[hr]Bill and Ted beat the Grim Reaper at Twister

Bill: "You played very well, Death, especially with your totally heavy Death robes."

Death: "Don't patronise me."

[Tom Plant]

if you really want your buttocks to shine forth in all their glory, why not just pop to one of those Soho 'tailors' of more dubious repute, and have a nice leather pair made without a back at all. Perhaps they'll throw in a custom-made corset and rubber mask for free.

Not quite sure how a Debating Society tie would fit in with that regalia, though, and the gown might defeat the object.

[exnihilo]

Plant, you're a loon!


[hr]"They are like their beer; foam on top, dregs on the bottom, but the middle excellent." - Voltaire on the English.

[Donald Renouf]

...make sure you also buy trews which have a high "fish-tail" back to them. There are few things worse than a billowing expanse of shirt showing between where the back of the waistcoat ends and the trousers begin, and a short mess jacket provides none of the discreet cloaking of the rear-waistband area afforded by coat-tails or a dinner-jacket.

Another fashion tip from...

Donald Renouf, sartorial arbiter extraordinare and the Brummell of the board

[exnihilo]

Indeed. Most important point - well done, that man.


[hr]"They are like their beer; foam on top, dregs on the bottom, but the middle excellent." - Voltaire on the English.

[Laura]

[s]exnihilo wrote on 01:00, 1st Dec 2003:
what's wrong with a bit of homo-eroticism?

Nothing, Mr.Joss absolutely nothing...if this board were to descend into Brideshead- come- Maurice style shananigans, there would be no one more entertained than me. You are all such lovely young men after all (ten best arses in the debating society? Of course I wouldn't dare to venture any opinions...)



[hr]
"The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them about without checking to see whether or not they are loaded, you must expect them to explode in your face from time to time." (Stephen Fry in 'The Liar')

[Eliot Wilson]

Now that, Miss Wilson, is a truly disturbing image. I never - and I can't stress this enough - want to see Messrs. Stewart and Sanghrajka engaged in hot man-on-man action.

[hr]Bill and Ted beat the Grim Reaper at Twister

Bill: "You played very well, Death, especially with your totally heavy Death robes."

Death: "Don't patronise me."

[Laura]

Mr. Wilson, Mr.Wilson- you have ruined it all. I had some quite pleasant imagery going on, but you just HAD to bring them into it didn't you? Honestly.

[Eliot Wilson]

What pleasant images could you possibly have had? You've seen the Board, right?

[hr]Bill and Ted beat the Grim Reaper at Twister

Bill: "You played very well, Death, especially with your totally heavy Death robes."

Death: "Don't patronise me."

[exnihilo]

Ten best arses in debates? My God, how would you limit the arses to ten? Unless you mean arses, oh, I get it.



[hr]"They are like their beer; foam on top, dregs on the bottom, but the middle excellent." - Voltaire on the English.

[Phoebe Stoves]

[s]Eliot Wilson wrote on 14:02, 1st Dec 2003:
What pleasant images could you possibly have had? You've seen the Board, right?

Yes, Laura, do tell us, what images? and who could you possibly be referring to?

Or, do i already know....

[Laura]

Miss. Stoves, I believe that we have rated and discussed practically every gentleman in any way connected with the society, so can not begin to imagine which one of our sordid imaginings you could be referring to. Do I have to sing the song????????

[Phoebe Stoves]

(Gasps) I object! i have done no such thing.....honest!