February 7, 2012 world of men's style / fashion / grooming RSS
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11/17/11
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Lily Cole is Concerned About Hat Theft

Lily Colevia Fashion Gone Rogue

Money, It’s a Gas: How your blog sausage gets made. (For the record, if we’re ever getting money for a post, you’ll see the word “Sponsored” all over it.) [The Coe Journal]

Feeling Kinda Breanish: Single-width tweed looms and Breanish weavers. Yes, it’s time for another factory tour. [Permanent Style]

Drawing a Line: A new source for unlined ties pops up in Singapore. [Put This On]

The Cloon Abides: The top 10 George Clooney performances, according to a professional. Batman is mysteriously absent. [Hit Fix]

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02/17/11
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Shelf Life

That’s My Shirt

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There’s a proud tradition of women looking damn good in menswear, from Marlene Dietrich to the current flood of “borrowed” Barbour jackets. It’s outdoorsy anti-fashion, a poke at gender roles, and generally the most excited you’ve ever been to see an oxford shirt. Naturally, we approve.

Tomboy Style has been rounding up the best instances for more than a year now, and all that toil has finally landed them a book deal with Rizzoli to round up the best tomboys the world has ever seen. It won’t be out until Spring ’12, but we’d like to put in an early request for more Chan Marshall.

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09/17/10
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Sound & Vision

A Stacked Deck

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There’s a lot of fun to be had in the gloriously splintered world of indie music blogs—but it helps if you’ve got a native guide. And since trusting an editorial organization with your musical education would be painfully old-fashioned, it’s probably best to turn to machines.

Shuffler.fm is our favorite flock, particularly after this week’s redesign. With the help of an iTunes-style toolbar, Shuffler will guide you through a curated list of thousands of under-the-radar music blogs—kind of like listening to the internet on shuffle. You’ll choose a genre, but after that you’re pretty much at the mercy of the blogs.

In other words, click “hardcore” at your own risk.

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07/30/10
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Bad Idea/Good Idea

Not Fade Away

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This gentleman has been causing quite a stir in the men’s style sphere lately—particularly in reference to those washed jeans.

He was snapped by the Sartorialist and Tommy Ton at Pitti Uomo, he’s inspired a crop of bloggers to profess a love for the kind of washed denim that, in simpler times, got tagged as dad jeans.

What does it all mean?»

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07/07/10
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Big Picture

Bookish

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We’ve gushed before about the charms of the bookshelf, but there’s finally a photoblog to back it all up. Ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes on Bookshelf Porn, a guided tour through some of the best bookshelves in the world. Sadly, it’s not nearly as salacious as it sounds.

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06/10/10
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Bad Idea/Good Idea

Tumblr Ruins Everything

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Trust the internet to take something beautiful and turn it into something slightly uncomfortable.

Take this young woman, for instance. She seems like she’s having a good time. She’s smiling, after all. Sure, her legs are crossed, but she doesn’t seem in distress. Certainly not like she’s looking for a bathroom or anything…

Unfortunately, after Hipsters Have to Pee, everything is suspect.

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06/02/10
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Marloes Horst is Dressed for Tennis

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Eyes on the Prize: The gents at Silver Lining get a richly deserved video tribute. Well done, Mr. Davis. [the189]

Above the Knee: A gentleman’s guide to making shorts, preferably with the help of a tailor. [The Sunday Best]

Nerds!: Roxana Altamirano gives her perspective on men’s style. Mostly, we’re just glad someone’s getting the phrase “nerd boyfriend” out there. [Valet]

The Ties That Bind: Disappointingly, Mogador is not a reanimated skeleton played by John Hurt in an upcoming film. [Men’s Flair]

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02/18/10
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Big Picture

Be Prepared

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This handsome assortment of gear comes from a new Norwegian street style blog. We’re pretty sure this is all they’ll need, give or take a laptop.

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08/11/09
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Ad Rock

Details Are Sketchy

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Richard Haines, our favorite sketch-blogger, just raised his profile another notch. On the heels of his residency at the J. Crew liquor store, he’s got a series of ads for pop-up flea vets 3Sixteen currently going up all over our fair city.

The spot—seen here in its natural habitat—couldn’t be simpler. It’s just Haines doing what he does best: a colored sketch of a well-dressed man. And if that man happens to be wearing a certain brand’s latest offerings…that’s just the magic of business.

See the poster and a video after the jump»

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05/11/09
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Storefront

Artist in Residence

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Our friends at UrbanDaddy just tipped us off to the latest J. Crew store opening in New York. It’s a lot like their Tribeca outpost, the Liquor Store, but they’ve got a few new tricks up their sleeve too.

For one, they’ve tempted Richard Haines, one of our favorite sketch-bloggers, to make an appearance at the store from noon to 2pm and 4pm to 6pm this Tuesday and Saturday. He’ll be making and handing out original sketches of whoever happens by, on whatever paper’s handy.

It’s not a bad idea: A good artist can be more trustworthy than a mirror if you’re trying to figure out whether that blazer’s a good fit.

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03/30/09
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Good Idea

Scarlett Fever

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The animated gif is just a few great works away from being a legitimate art form—in fact, they’ve already got their own museum—but this is the first time we’ve seen it turned on the celebrity class.

We just ran across this gif of one Scarlett Johansson in a variety of charming poses. As PR, it does more than a dozen Esquire spreads—and we’re quite partial to those. Think of it as one more step towards flacks becoming surrogate blogmasters.

And, needless to say, it’s better than The Nanny Diaries.

See the gif in question»

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03/27/09
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Agyness, Austin and Art

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Cherchez Le Femme: Agyness Deyn has traded Albert Hammond for (we assume) a less technically proficient guitarist. [The Cut]

Heading South: Michael Williams tours Austin’s finest boutiques…one Olch at a time.[A Continuous Lean]

Crazy Time: Gawker looks at Dubai and decides to get crazy artsy. We’re not sure either. [Gawker]

Greatest of all Time: Deb counts down the 100 blogs most likely to improve your life. Somehow, Failblog does not make the list. [AskDeb]

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02/24/09
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Big Picture

Boxed Set

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This pic comes from The Lovely Package, a photoblog dedicated to the best in non-Apple packaging. A lot of it is hit or miss, but we couldn’t resist these old school oil boxes. We’ve seen more marketing-heavy products like pomade or snacks packaged this way, but when it trickles down to motor oil, you know something’s finally getting through.

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02/17/09
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Bad Idea

Crash Course

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You might think Fashion Week would be drama enough, but there’s always room for a little more.

FashionIndie President Daniel Saynt just cancelled all the site’s upcoming events, video premieres, and a good chunk of their Fashion Week coverage, and announced a lawsuit against the New York Observer. The lawsuit is in response to a catty lead paragraph from last week’s paper that called them out on crashing fashion week events…but don’t worry if things don’t quite add up. It’s not just you.

Frankly, we thought Saynt & Co. took pride in the occasional gatecrash, but calling off their own parties smacks of desperation and—even worse—thin skin. Calling in a lawyer is the weakest play in the book, and it’s simply not the blogger way. If you can’t take a jab or two from a broadsheet, how are you going to survive Gawker?

For goodness sakes, this is the internet.

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02/17/09
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Good Idea

Seeing and Being Seen

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After a while, the Sartorialist-style shots start to blend together, so it was about time someone brought a more personal touch to people watching.

Our candidate is What I Saw Today, which throws a few colored pencils and a playfully sketchy style into the mix. Street style blogs have always aspired to be a kind of notebook for designers, so making one that actually looks like a notebook brings a certain authenticity to the project.

And if it helps a few more people appreciate the subtle texture of a Chesterfield coat…all the better.

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01/27/09
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Good Idea

Pull Up a Stool

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Tumblr is a many-splendored thing, but the casual nature of the microblog, together with the ocean of images now available online, make it perfect for the peculiar phenomenon known as the inspiration blog.

Our current favorite is The Barstool Romantic, a more literary cousin to The Impossible Cool. They’re most impressed by the motorbike style of the 50s—in fact, we know a store they should check out—but the blog is broad enough to throw in a Rimbaud quote, pictures a few Francophone chanteuses, and a quick introduction to flaneurism—something any dedicated man about town should look into.

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01/26/09
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Dress Code

Hear Ye, Hear Ye

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There are a lot of sources for style advice, but if we had our choice, we’d skip the glossy mags, style sections, and even the blogs, and go straight for the sartorial wisdom of medieval parchments. They’re a little hard to find these days, but the advice therein is timeless.

This guide to pants may be a bit feminine for our uses, but the advice about acid-washed jeans is as true today as when it was written.

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12/09/08
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Across the Sea

Foreign Dispatches

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A lot of interesting stuff comes out of Japan, so we’re always glad to see it a little earlier.

The Pursuit Aesthetic put us on to our Eastern connection. It’s called Style from Tokyo, and we’ve already seen more loose-weave shawl collar sweaters than we ever expected to find on those shores. Unlike most street style blogs, Style from Tokyo seeks out the unusual, so don’t be surprised if you see a few too many hobo-chic drifters sporting blaze-orange blazers. That’s just how Tokyo works.

It’s a nice place to visit, but we wouldn’t want to live there.

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10/17/08
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Eva Mendes, Neck Protection, and The History of Our Land

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In Vogue: The lovely Ms. Mendes in Italian Vogue. We’re sorry we said you weren’t the farming kind. [FashionIndie]

History Written in Sharpee: A Live Journal gives sharpee illustrations of the facebook status of all 44 presidents. We’re pretty sure this is how the Iliad was written. [Maria Sputnik]

Head Games: Whether you’re in America, India, or the rugged lands of Shaolin, you best protect your neck. [Jezebel]

Biters: Bastion of Blogosphere integrity Kanye West faces accusations of plagiarism. Say it ain’t so, ‘Ye. [Vulture]

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10/13/08
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Political Pumpkins, Denim Futures, and Fictional Gadgets

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The Boogeyman: A few politically minded jack-o-lantern templates in time for Halloween. [NotCot]

In the Trenches: A roundup of trenchcoats, in case the economy has you turning to gumshoe work. [Men.Style]

The Future is Now: DNR peers into the mysterious and terrifying future of men’s denim. [DNR]

Crossing Over: BoingBoing Gadgets crosses over from actual gadget-blogging to fictional gadget-blogging, but only three days a week. We promise to never ever do this.
[BoingBoing Gadgets]

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10/10/08
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Good Idea

A Touch of Gray

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With the fashion industry’s constant focus on youth, it’s easy to forget there are some pretty sharp oldsters out there. Silver Sartorial, anyone?

The new blog addressing this imbalance—under a slightly worse name—is Advanced Style, an on-the-street stream of pictures dedicated to “personal style that advances with age.” The folks here pull off tweed sport coats and painter’s whites with more conviction than you’ll get from anyone under 30.

It’s only fitting. Street-style photoblogs are getting a little long in the tooth themselves.

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09/16/08
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Here Comes the Son

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It’s a big internet, and while there’s plenty of snark, vanity, and free electropop, genuine wisdom is always in short supply. That’s why we were impressed when we ran across 1001 Rules for my Unborn Son. From sartorial advice (“If you are tempted to wear a cowboy hat, resist”) to a surprising number of hangover cures (including swimming in the ocean), the blog is a source of surprisingly good advice for the old school gentleman. Someone get this man a column in *Esquire*.

A few of our favorites after the jump»

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02/29/08
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Kanye Blogs, Tom Poses and Colin Get Pikey

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Angela Lindvall Buck Naked: Get the (NSFW) picture?
[Goldenfiddle]

We Can Relate: href="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/live-from-colette-kanye-west/">Kanye
West is an under-appreciated fashion blogger, which, along with
the beats, Benjamins and biddies, makes him exactly like us. [ href=" http://gawker.com/5003438/kanye-west-loser-fashion-blogger">Gawker]

Extra Yards: Loser quarterback of the losing New
England Patriots, Tom Brady to slip on briefs for money. Loser. [ href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/02292008/gossip/pagesix/make_it_briefs_99770.htm">NYPost]

There Goes The Neighborhood: The Garment District is
on deathwatch. Where oh where will we go for our $20 velour
tracksuits? [Observer]

Resurfacing: SubMercer, the famed semi-secret bar
under the Mercer Hotel, href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS5fkPFUskQ">where a certain
someone once practiced her poll dancing for a certain video, to
open for friends and family. Invite us any time. [ href="http://www.timeout.com/newyork/the-feed-blog/restaurants-bars/?p=2621">Timeout
via The
Moment]

Natty Dread: Coby Kennedy is just trying to do what
he do. [NYMag]

From The Caravan to The Red Carpet: Colin Farrell
does “traveller chic,” href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Traveller">a definite diss in
the Queen’s English. [Showbiz
Ireland]

Emerging Economy: Despite having birthed a few
billion souls, China is just now figuring out this whole sex thing.
[Sun
Times]

Always Bet on Black: Irony does not always redeem the
white tuxedo. [ href="http://www.independent.com/news/2008/feb/28/wear-white-tuxedo/">The
Independent]

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