South vs. North?

PGT_uga · #1 03-29-2007, 10:19 PM

It's pointless to keep arguing about the South vs the north and which is better

As a Southerner, I'd probably just euthanize myself if I was caught wearing or doing some of the things that go on up in the north, but that's just me. they probably think the same way about our PFGs, costas, cole haans, brooks brothers, and sperrys...

just dont associate with them.

it's what Robert E. Lee and co. did.

DSTRen13 · #2 03-29-2007, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by PGT_uga

As a Southerner, I'd probably just euthanize myself if I was caught wearing or doing some of the things that go on up in the north, but that's just me. they probably think the same way about our PFGs, costas, cole haans, brooks brothers, and sperrys...

What's a PFG?

PGT_uga · #3 03-29-2007, 10:33 PM

performance fishing gear

thomaskat · #4 03-29-2007, 10:49 PM

I dont understand why brooks brothers. sperry. etc etc are constantly being touted as styles only being worn in the south.
Maybe not so popular amongst younger college crowd, but its not completely uncommon to see such things on a northern college campus, especially in the New England area.

ladygreek · #5 03-29-2007, 10:49 PM

Hey I grew up right on the MD line, so I can go either way.

Xidelt · #6 03-29-2007, 10:54 PM

use the search function.
this north vs. south "what's the most frat-tastic part of the country" thing has already been argued in a million posts on GC.

Elephant Walk · #7 03-29-2007, 10:53 PM

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What's a PFG?

Are you serious? oh boy.

DSTRen13 · #8 03-29-2007, 11:07 PM

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Are you serious? oh boy.

Why would I know that? I don't fish.

RACooper · #9 03-30-2007, 02:08 AM

Sooo... Performance Fishing Gear is that like some special line? or is it just the extraneous gear some folks need/use to fish?

Please note I do fish (in every season) but the only extra "performance" type gear I regularlly use is a depth gauge so as not to hit any rocks or deadheads.

AlphaFrog · #10 03-30-2007, 07:18 AM

(Ok, I know it's been done before, but so has this thread

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Munchkin03 · #11 03-30-2007, 07:46 AM

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they probably think the same way about our PFGs, costas, cole haans, brooks brothers, and sperrys...

LOL, you consider Brooks Brothers, Cole Haan, and Sperry "Southern Brands"?

Haven't been out much, have you?

KSigkid · #12 03-30-2007, 08:14 AM

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LOL, you consider Brooks Brothers, Cole Haan, and Sperry "Southern Brands"?

Haven't been out much, have you?

Haha, that's exactly what I was going to say. CT and Boston both have two huge Brooks Brothers stores, and you see Cole Haan and Sperry everywhere up here.

Does that mean I'm really a Southerner because a good number of my clothes are Brooks Brothers?

MysticCat · #13 03-30-2007, 08:51 AM

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. . . . they probably think the same way about our PFGs, costas, cole haans, brooks brothers, and sperrys...

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LOL, you consider Brooks Brothers, Cole Haan, and Sperry "Southern Brands"?

Really. Brooks Brothers was founded in and has always been a New York City-based company; Cole Haan is a Chicago company; PFG is based in Portland, Oregon; Sperrys came from New England; and Lecoste is French, for Pete's sake.

(And back in the day, Freeport, Maine's L.L. Bean would also have appeared on this list. Their duck shoes are still a must in these parts.

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Sooo... Performance Fishing Gear is that like some special line? or is it just the extraneous gear some folks need/use to fish?

It's a line of Columbia Sportswear: Performance Fishing Gear.

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just dont associate with them.

it's what Robert E. Lee and co. did.

You might want to read up on Robert E. Lee a little more -- he went to West Point and was stationed in Ohio, Missouri, Iowa and New York, among other places. In the early stages of the Civil War, he considered the succession of the Southern states to be betrayal of principles on which this country was built. He was asked to take a command in the Union Army, which he said he would do as long as Virginia did not secede. Because he considered his primary loyalty to be to Virginia, when it was clear that Virginia would secede, and only then, did he resign his commission in the US Army.

Elephant Walk · #14 03-30-2007, 10:28 AM

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You might want to read up on Robert E. Lee a little more -- he went to West Point and was stationed in Ohio, Missouri, Iowa and New York, among other places. In the early stages of the Civil War, he considered the succession of the Southern states to be betrayal of principles on which this country was built. He was asked to take a command in the Union Army, which he said he would do as long as Virginia did not secede. Because he considered his primary loyalty to be to Virginia, when it was clear that Virginia would secede, and only then, did he resign his commission in the US Army.

... He didn't say anything incorrect. I'm not real sure why he should "read up on him." Most southerners know waaay too much about him, and always have some sort of bloodline to him.

Southern fashion is influenced by the Gulf. That's simple. I was talking with one of the brothers and he use to competitively yacht down in Houston. He gets so pissed when he sees Sperry's, Croakies and so on because he knows they don't yacht, because I mean we live in Arkansas, which is what they're used for. I'm in the Gulf 2 months out of the year and it's necessary to wear Sperry's and croakies so my glasses don't fall off.

shinerbock · #15 03-30-2007, 10:45 AM

Yall are being idiotic. Nobody said these are "southern" things. What is true, however, is that they're popular among the greek communities at the major southern universities. While I'm sure there are similar styles among NE greeks, but for the most part in the "north" (mid atlantic through northern midwest), those styles aren't as popular among our age group.

Its like this, at many northern universities, going to a party in pfg's, sperry's, a bb shirt and croakies is going to make you stick out. If you go to a bar at a big southern university wearing black pants, a vert-striped shirt with a spread color and your hair gelled, you're going to stick out.

This topic has been beaten up, but the original poster had it pretty right, with the caveat that not everyone in the north is anti-sperry, brooks brothers, etc. If you go to a popular bar around Emory, I'm sure it'll be stocked up with hair gel. Basically, what is common among the 30+ professional crowd up north is popular among the 20+ crowd in the south. Just as that makes us boring old men up north, it makes you a douche down south.