Sartorial Fascism

There is an interesting subculture of (maily American) men who have appointed themselves as the true descendents of the White Gentlemen and Beau Brummel (wonder if they see the irony in that). For these puritanical "gents", the world of menswear has halted in the mid 1940s, save for Naples. They all want to dress like the Duke of Windsor, pull birds like the fictional James Bond, behave like either Gordon Gecko and look like Patrick Bateman. Yet these "gentlemen" feel compelled to dish out homophobic, racist and sexist remarks at an alarming rate within their modern day equivalent of the smoking room. Anything not worn or endorsed by their heroes are deemed "unacceptable", "trashy" or "gay".

For the non delusional, could you really say with a straight face, that, aesthetically, a man dress like this:





is really it more attractive than someone who dresses like this.

And is it not equally predictable that their "bible" is written by a former speech writer for Dubya?