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.
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
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.
Maybe I meant that the amount of detail is sustained no matter how close you look? Maybe I was careless with my words? This is unnecessarily pedantic. I enjoyed the article. See you another time, CyberDildonics
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.
English royalty does this from time to time, through different means.
The Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward, Prince of Wales) is credited with popularizing and essentially "saving" or bringing the Fair Isle sweater to global fashion prominence in the 1920s.
I looked for this coat, or one like it not so long ago. I found Andrea Galer is making them tailored to order for £2-£3k . Something I can't afford unfortunately. If anyone knows if anything passably similar let me know!
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...