Withnail's Coat and I

vi_sextus_vi 1 hour 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 3 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 59 minutes ago|

I'm not sure it's a fractal nature of detail, it might just be a vague reference to an old movie.

sdwr 16 minutes 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 21 minutes 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.

sudb 2 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 3 hours ago|

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

toed 49 minutes ago|

Par excellence ?