Monday, November 30, 2020
Sunday, November 29, 2020
NYT on SF and AAAC in 2004
An article in NYT on SF and AAAC in 2004.
A sampler:
Styleforum.net is one of about a half-dozen Web logs and Internet discussion sites that have emerged in the past few years to cater to the sometimes fanatical interests of those immersed in the world of classical men's clothing. Styleforum, with about 1,100 members, and AskAndyAboutClothes.com, with about 1,600, are probably the most popular. They attract recent college graduates just entering the business world; midcareer bankers, lawyers and financiers; and a handful of custom tailors who appear on the sites to offer counsel and also to defend themselves when the particularities of their cutting and sewing methods are maligned or questioned.
Oddly, neither Styleforum nor AskAndy were begun by men with encyclopedic knowledge of lapel widths. As Jeremy Jackson, the founder of Styleforum, put it, "I have no idea what these people are talking about." Mr. Jackson, a 25-year-old office manager at his stepfather's construction company in Seattle, had a mild fascination with clothes when he started the site two years ago. He had participated in an online fashion forum run by GQ magazine but found it too vituperative in tone. "There was a lot of fighting," he said. Moderating Mr. Jackson's site to make sure tempers don't flare too aggressively is a San Antonio writer named Steve Brinkman, whom Mr. Jackson has never met.
Andy Gilchrist, of AskAndy, started his site in 2001, two years after retiring from the aerospace division of TRW in Redondo Beach, Calif. "I'm shocked sometimes at the level of involvement here," Mr. Gilchrist said. "I thought I was pretty obsessed but I've never paid $1,600 for shoes." During part of his tenure at TRW, Mr. Gilchrist, now 60 and coming up on his 35th wedding anniversary, indulged his fascination with men's tailoring by taking a second job on the weekends at a branch of Polo Ralph Lauren. He was the top salesman, he said, for five of his six years at the shop. "I couldn't sell cars but I could sell clothes because I love them," he said. He owns 300 ties.
And the Russian reindeer joke...
One afternoon last week, a member of Styleforum.net, a Web site devoted to the discussion of men's clothing and lifestyle, asked fellow members about a shoe that had aroused his curiosity. The shoe, a cap-toe lace-up from the British cobbler Poulsen Skone, was not the sort of thing one finds at Brooks Brothers. Costing $1,500, it was made of Russian reindeer hide salvaged from a shipwrecked Danish brigantine -- the Catherina von Flensburg -- that had sunk off the coast of Cornwall in 1786.
"I understand that both Cleverley and John Lobb of St. James obtained some of these hides too," the Web poster wrote, referring to two London-based purveyors of custom shoes. "If anyone has bought any please post pictures. I understand that Prince Charles has got a pair, but he has yet to join the forum."
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Saturday, November 28, 2020
Fit with Yellow Tie
Here is a fit with a yellow paisley tie.
A yellow Boss paisley tie with a black DB blazer, some navy shirt.
In other words, putting styleforum to shame.
Arched tie - live and learn from the best.
(in other words, tie has a boner)
But seriously, what I learned from this fit (and elsewhere) is that a yellow tie works with a navy shirt and a black blazer (and olive trousers too) but maybe not with all of them at the same time.
Friday, November 27, 2020
Thursday, November 26, 2020
Thursday Fit
Here is a somewhat subdued Thursday fit at.... Uniqlo
Some small snow flurries today.
Spoils.
Socks to be worn as follows:
Pink with navy troursers and/or suits
Red wine, or Bordeaux, and green with grey trousers and/or suits
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Beyond Outrage Official Trailer #1 (2013) - Japanese Crime Film HD
Just finished rewatching this.
The only movie I have watched of the Outrage trilogy, although I have seen three other Kitano gangster films and am a fan.
Monday, November 23, 2020
Monday OOTD with a red tie
Here is my blue Monday OOTD with a red tie.
... and a black DB blazer.
Yes, I know, black, navy and red would never work as they create a major clash of colors, and all primary colors I believe, however I have been wearing this outfit all day long this Monday and hasn't been arrested by the fashion police yet (but maybe because they are too scared of me... there's that)
Also, the dumb camera seems to have liked the tie, it picked it up over everything else and amplified its luster in particular; but it isn't as dramatic in real life, more subdued I think.
Tie.
Well, I guess I screwed it all up again, this is how I should have worn it:
Or may be even like that... but need to buy some brass buttons with anchors first
But still, you know, much better that the usual fare on a certain style forum.
Sunday, November 22, 2020
Saturday, November 21, 2020
Games In Progress: Fight Night Champion PS3 - beat as Butterbean
Here, have beaten another game earlier this year - Fight Night Champion on PS3 - won the Legacy mode and as Butterbean no less - collecting all three belts, maxing all skills, and knocking out Mike Tyson about 4 times.
Here is proof in screenshots (as in pictures of my TV screen):
Your boy here is a gamer with decades of experience who started playing video games on the likes of 486 something processor IBM compatibles and later Sega and Sony PS1 through PS4 which I all have, and all are in working order barring one of the two PS2s.
Belt # 1
Belt # 2
True, I didn't progress to above Champion because it would have required winning too many bouts, into the hundreds of them probably, and even though I had got a knack of winning easily it became a drag after a while and would have required too much time.
Belt # 3
All three belts.
