Situation: B has asked A what she thinks of her clothes and A said 安心感がある。
(which makes little sense to me, but seems to be quite common when Japanese
people talk about fashion). B's clothing is very recognizable, a fact noted by
C. And then D comments:

> 昔からずっとアレなら安心感と言うのなら流石Aさんというところ・・・

Several things I don't quite understand:

  1. Should there be a full stop after 昔からずっと? (it's a manga) Because it doesn't seem to fit into the rest of the sentence.
  2. How do アレなら and 言うのなら play together?

My best guess about the translation is something like "If anyone would say
about _that horrible outfit_ that it gives off anshinkan, it would be A-san."
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アレなら and というなら in the same sentence
1. I don't find that interpretation reasonable.

  2. The writer probably wanted to express it's not sure if her clothes have been actually so, and failed to write 昔からずっとアレで安心感と言うなら (if they have always been _that_ since the past and she still says "reliable"). (If you want to get rid of ambiguity, you can say …アレだとして、それで安心感と…)
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> 昔{むかし}からずっとアレなら安心感{あんしんかん}と言{い}うのなら流石{さすが}Aさんというところ・・・

＝

> 『昔からずっとアレなら安心感（がある）。』 **と** （Aさんが）言うのなら、「流石Aさん！」 **と** （私は）いうところ・・・

This is an informally spoken "sentence", which is why it might be difficult to
even parse it unless one actually speaks natural Japanese. You would need to
read between the lines, so to speak, as it is not the kind of sentence you
would encounter in a textbook. You would need to fill in the unmentioned words
to translate.

> 1) Should there be a full stop after 昔からずっと? (it's a manga) Because it
> doesn't seem to fit into the rest of the sentence.

No, there should not. Read on to find out how it fits into the rest of the
sentence.

> 2) How do アレなら and 言うのなら play together?

「アレなら」 modifies 「安心感」 and 「言うのなら」 modifies 「流石Aさん」. These function separately
and the latter pair constitutes the core of the sentence itself while the
former just constitutes the statement I quoted above with 『』. Thus, the two
conditionals can coexist within one sentence.

Finally, my own TL:

> If A says "It produces a sense of security if B has always been dressed like
> **_that_**.", then I would have to say that A has wit.
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