It looks pretentious, and if it rains, you’re SOL. I tend to distrust men in shawl collars, signet rings, and loafers w/out socks.
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I'm picturing a glass of wine in this image, also. And probably some kind of aspiring artist.
Depends how you wear it. Scruffy with an old shirt is my favorite. It's best to think of it as cabin wear, not city attire. Books, not wine.
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Looks great on this subject, who is clearly not a poser!
Shawl collars are for indoors. They're loungewear.
I love them on my long sweaters and sweater dresses. They look nice. Down where I was born and bred, men wearing them are called bleeding heart liberals (not sayin’ it’s right…), the culture is brutal.
The liberal way to wear a shawl collar is to dress it up neatly. My advice is to go the other way: be haggard like a man at his cabin.
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Yes, this is attractive. My tribe (again, not my opinion), casts a jaundiced eye upon such dapper duds. It’s sad that self-expression is so harshly judged. I didn’t own a pair of jeans my first two years in college and paid dearly for it.
This is the direction you want. Towards cabin wear with a workwear vibe.
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Yes! Not fussy, not messy, well put together.
hilarious how things have flipped eh? I'd say this is now "far right"...
Aside: a signet ring can be tasteful if the man don's his highest value on it. Just one tho. You don't want to overdo jewelry as a man.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1327284895/jesus-christ-crown-of-thorns-made-of
Yes. You very likely know that they were once used to seal a beeswax stamp on a letter, they actually had a practical function in addition to adornment.
I think if you have a wedding band then a very slim, minimalistic necklace is a better way to go if you want to wear a cross.
What!? You don’t care for the Neon Deion/Mr. T starter kit? I’m glad he’s loud and proud with Jesus, but I do prefer the guy with the slender cross who wears his devotion in his heart and actions.
Jewellry just gets lost or tangled, I avoid it. This from someone who once had about 10 piercings. I would maybe now wear my septum again but only if it's an 8mm diameter titanium segment like I had before I landed in prison a decade ago.
I can't even stand wearing a watch, that's the most annoying non-clothing item. I definitely would wear one as a necklace though, only if it's very durable and small, and ideally, mechanical.
But to be honest, I prefer to tell time by the sun because that's what regulates my activity levels, and when nobody in normie world needs me I barely pay attention to that. Sunset and sunrise are the only times that matter.
Anyhow, the cross isn't the proper symbol of a christian, it's the bind rune looking one, combines P and X, being a combination of the runes for Joy (wunjo) and gift (gebu) Although it sorta looks like it might intentionally include Hagal, the hailstorm. Chi-Rho... from the greek I guess. Perfectly recognisable to anyone who knows Cyrillic or Greek alphabets.
The chinese consider the uneven cross to be a symbol of bad luck, and indeed it is a symbol of death, a very common tombstone.
I'm also not keen on the neo-protestant "fish" icon, because it looks way too much like vesica pisces, and like the cross, out of balance.
The age of Christ is tied to the age of pisces though, and the dual fish symbol represents the millennium of Christ, followed by the millennium of Satan. That's about to come to an end, thankfully.
Also, praying to symbols, clutching symbols, icons, statues and other crafted items is explicitly forbidden. How anyone doesn't find that problematic really bugs me. It's clearly blasphemy.
