JM - if "TSP" was totally definitive of Edwardian Brit culture, I'd accept your point. However, I find it to be a wee tad more complex than that. I do not find the top layer of that culture definitive of the whole.
Ah, but that is precisely the "layer" of culture the Vintagers attempt to emulate!
Is your disdane for Edwardian Brit utter, or is it confined to a style of clothing? For example, how do you feel about Brit guns of that period? What is your take on wearing kilts?
My disdain is for a self-important class of irrelevant twits who ultimately stumbled off the pages of history in WW1, blindly leading a generation of unquestioning commoners to meaningless deaths. Who but a fool would emulate a fool?
The guns were made, not by 'gentlemen' in breeks, but by skilled workers in apron and overalls -- many of whom were lost at places like Ypres. The guns they made are very nice indeed.
The kilt, in the Highlands, is only worn by pipers, wedding parties, and tourists hoping to be mistaken for Highlanders. Beyond the Highlands, it is worn mostly by North Americans whose kiltless ancestors were booted out of the Highlands by kilt-wearing Anglo-Scot aristos who preferred, for various reasons, to live with sheep.
