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Accessorize or Die.
February 7, 2010 5:41 PM
- GQ Style has been featuring some of the best trends for Spring. These include brightly colored watches, patterned pocket squares, bright ties, and more. They were adding to the list just about daily, but I don't know when the list is complete. Started last week so may be already. Something I love about men's fashion is how simple it really can be. You get your basic set of staples - dress shirts, slacks, shoes, blazers (in varying shades and varying degrees of fancy), and then you can make any number of outfits given your accessories. And the accessories are often more affordable and easier to grow a collection than the larger pieces.

I suppose it can be the same with women's fashion. But from what I've seen, the clothing can cost as much as the accessory when women are more often than not limited to varities of jewelry.

Plus this slide show turned me on to The Tie Bar. 2.5" ties and bowties for $15/each. In actual attractive styles and colors. I'm going to buy some tonight I think!

- I've needed glasses since sixth grade and have worn them since sophomore year of high school. Which means we are actually at a 10 year anniversary right now. Me and my specs. I'm pretty proud to wear glasses. I know I've said before that I wouldn't feel comfortable without them perched on my face, much less be able to see. They are such an extension of my style (and given the trends, of others' styles too). My current pair, a nice horn-rimmed small rectangle frame, may be my favorite pair ever. I expect my Rx is balancing out too and if so, that means I can start using my health insurance to amass a collection of various frames and styles.

Having glasses does have a few drawbacks. For me, namely, that I can't just willy nilly wear sunglasses. Though you may remember my joy last summer when I bought my first pair of prescription sunglasses. It became cumbersome to carry them with me, though; and if I remembered to it was a hassle to switch back and forth. So my sunglasses live in the car mostly where really they are most valuable. That experience did teach me that I can pretty much put lenses in any frames I want which is helpful for all of the times I find $10 fake glasses and can get $75 lenses made.

Anywho. Ritchey once again delivers a great post about exactly this. One's relationship to their glasses and limited eyesight:

And anyway, as far as handicaps go, in this day and age I'd say this is the most manageable one. Still, to be so supremely handicapped should always give one pause. All the glasses-wearers of the world think sometimes to themselves of fires and cataclysms, of midnight rapes, and how helpless they would be.

Megan Fox in NYT Magazine; Men's Fashion

If you go to the homepage of the NYT Magazine right now, and scroll down a bit, you'll find a video interviewing Megan Fox for about 6 minutes. I couldn't find a way to direct link to the video or to embed it, but in it she once again proves that she's not just a pretty face. Between her pretty logical and mathematically sound reasoning on why she's usually the Mean Girl and her comments on comic books (long a haven for nerds), Megan Fox is someone I'll continue to keep my eye on.

Though I do take umbrage with the cat lady comments. Ah, so be it.

Additionally, I've been really bathing in menswear fashion photos lately. I found a few blogs thanks to this article from the NYT that Steve linked me to. And via those blogs I've started learning designers and finding other places to look at and read about men's fashion. It's a world that keeps reeling me in. May I recommend:

  • A Continuous Lean: Probably the best of the bunch I found, but it's focus on Made in America is a little off putting to me. Not because I don't believe in American quality, or the benefits of keeping your money local, but because I don't think it's fair to ignore the ingenuity and quality coming out of other countries.
  • Fine and Dandy Shop: My other new favorite and a little more personable than ACL. It's recent interview with A New York Dandy's John Wellington turned me onto V Man magazine. Which I hope to pick up a copy of this week while on vacation.
  • Kauffmann Mercantile: Found this via ACL and while it's less fashion and more gear, definitely an interesting blog to follow if you're interested in the history of good quality products and design (often times also common place).
  • Glenn O'Brien: O'Brien is GQ's Style Guy and was recently interviewed by ACL. (Through which I found out about designer Thom Browne, not to be confused with another designer I'm a fan of, Tom Ford.) Anyway - O'Brien's advice seems pretty well grounded and his discussions of style are entertaining as much as they are informative. He also writes for The GQ Eye feature.
  • NYT Sunday Styles: Finally there's the Sunday Styles section of the NYT. I remember a few years ago when Steve and I sat around ogling their annual (I think) publication focused purely on men's fashion. Now I've bookmarked it and will check it every week.

ca. 1986
June 22, 2009 9:05 PM

To help me remember the face of my father, I now have the same watch he has had for the past 20 years:

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Except with this band.

Don't ask me why, but I was so excited Saturday night about it that I couldn't sleep for want of just waking up and wearing it on Sunday. Yeah. I don't know.

I also got a sweet new haircut that at times reminds me of 1985.

let the sun shine in
May 10, 2009 9:13 PM

I've worn spectacles for the last...nine-to-ten years. (I had my first real pair when my sis got hitched in Sept 2000. Obviously the timeline is mucho importante.) Which means that it's been nine-to-ten years since I've been able to wear sunglasses. I tried clip-ons once. What a failure that was.

Until yesterday! I bought my first pair of Rx sunglasses! And if I say so myself, I'm hot shit.

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Just in time for summer fun! My Life Healthy Mission approves of this development, also. Learning to live the life I want, rather than the life I have.

(PS: The Dos Equis man reminds me entirely of Steve Zissou. I also really enjoy the cover of "Final Countdown" used in the current Lincoln commercial. YOUTUBE THIS SHIT.)

new kicks
March 1, 2009 7:50 PM

I bought these about a week ago and I'm still in love. Even though the right sole is peeling off the heel.

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