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Wotcher,

Today masculinity is defined by its esthetician, romantic yearning for the infinite and careful fashion: our cods, ‘loons and tights exemplify this.

But as breech fashion rightly failed along with boorism there was another even more plebeian fashion that died like a smothered monster in its crib: looses or as the preromantics sometimes called them “trousers.”

As anyone familiar with boorish modern molly culture knows only unmanned men wear looses: the very poor, the non-European, the coitally strange, the sex pest. While looses are fine on women, clamping their vapours safely, they open up dangerous flows for men’s sex. What spells out the strangest stranger than his button “fly” allowing him to expose his cods wilfully?

Obviously I am not suggesting that Asia triumph in the world economy of empires, or that men generally become “strange” even if they become hopelessly emasculated by Bruitish boorish poor inspired behaviour. But perhaps a lionisation of the breechless ones in France could usher in a general worship of the undeserving poor and their crude fashion. Even the most base mechanics if they have any self respect wear thick woolen workhose beneath their plain pantaloons and cloth cods. Something bizarre could produce the worship of the very poorest and their shameful workclothing of loose “trousers.”

Yours,
Sam R.
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