Steve
Pelman
Forward- My Past
Note; This is a blog-book and chapters will repeat
some information to maintain the context The purpose is to best reach the
public to avail the values of this new brave new industry for the 21 st. C
My father was a latecomer as a retailor in men’s clothing
after WW2, he was also a great tenor in the community temple Choir. I
learned music to the point of passion that I want to transfer the discipline to
visual harmony. This is significant as dressing, and music are both vibrations
and a part of the new string theory of quantum physics. Waves permeate matter
and are indications of how culture or integration can work. Einstein could not
believe the “Quantum Entanglement” experiment and called it spooky. This is
readily available on YouTube and people would have to deny science. They would
also have to deny culture as a relative phenomenon. My disciplines are visual and audible and share
the same purpose to integrate via these rituals as any living species would
participate.
As the second son and fourth child, hearing his singing from
that great distance was often the most impressionable communication of power
and passion. This I took as a message of the power he emanated. Given in the
fifties that the news of the Holocaust and the constant air-raid sirens
threatening nuclear disaster, I was moved to consider rock and roll to be the new
electric messiah, or the “message or the pied piper of civilizing culture via
music via enlightening or wisdoms of engaging lyrics. It was well known the
term by Marshal McLuhan, that the medium was the message. And the multitudes of
baby boomers seem to be the spearhead for “sculpting civilization”. That was my
mission for many years. As it happens the Beatles beat me to the emancipation
of the Russian youth to the extent that the Russian government ended up their
ban on western music by actually selling Beatles albums. (according to CBC 5th
Estate Series)
But I soon realized the musical gamble I was playing with
the multitudes of dudes competing for glory. Most of the music was redundant tribal
(strong beat) entertainment and was not creating a larger pie or market, but
was simply just replacing love and loss songs. The industry was capitalizing on
human frailties, but hardly sculpting personalities and healthy souls for a
dynamic civilization.
When I was in college my profession said that Shakespeare
wrote, “In what tailor shall we find Plato”. Now this to me at the time was
interesting to look in the context of Shakespeare’s time to the human nature of
dress and its value among men and competition. As my father was a
“re”tailor, I was curious as to the
tailors history and decided to take a job with him at Sam’s Shirt Shop. After a
few years of selling suits, I realized
that even though all customers were content, that there was always one
client fit that was exemplary. This was when I opted out for a better standard.
Then along came the web to publish and proliferate with apps, those standards.
It was then I learned why there were no standards and why so
many suits did not fit. I realized the estimated loss of 10,000 European
tailors during WW2 among the change of values to electronics, cars and virtual
entertainment. The perfect suit has a value that was only handed down from a
father and his tailor to his son. This is virtually lost as the fathers mostly
do not know. Certainly I see country presidents and corporate VIP with bad
jacket collars who like the Emperors new clothes, failed due to trusting rather
than sharing the standards that link all men. Many of those sartorial secrets were buried in
the genocide of the 1940’s. My life
mission started there. To redeem the souls of those craftsmen, the values that
can be shared by all men. This is true today with scalable online training of
tailoring design and the shared economy to fight the new inflation. A man’s
dignity is not in how many suits are in his closet, but by his confidence in
just one suit.
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