Category Archive: dandy
Nov 09
Checkered Celebrities
Alan Cummings wore this suit at some sort of award show in August. It met with a great deal of acclaim and derision. It’s a real love it or hate it number. Yet the people who love or hate it tend to love or hate the suit. They miss the point. The suit is fine. …
Oct 28
How to Put In Cufflinks
Since I now have a webcam, I decided to try my hand at vlogging. This is the first in a series of short tutorial videos.
Oct 22
Death of a Few Fashions
When reading about suits, one can find quite a bit of fussy, fashionable nonsense. Edicts about the amount of buttons, the ones that should be done up and the correct width of ties. While some of these make a great deal of sense (meaning I subscribe to them) others are just passed from person to person without much intervening thought. Indeed, some of these, at one time, did make sense but in today’s world veer into obsolescence. The basic rules of fit, texture and color remain fundamental. Some of the other stuff can be dispensed with.
Oct 15
Philip Sparks: 8-Hole Lace Up Boots
During my most recent closet purge, I tossed out quite a few pairs of shoes. This left me with two pairs for work, one pair of slippers and three pairs (in the fundamental colors of black, brown and silver) for leisure. A perfectly fine base but a collection that I wished to carefully expand. I wanted a …
Oct 12
Bowerbirds Use Illusion
When building the nest that attracts their mates, male bowerbirds use carefully placed trinkets and interesting designs to show off. The Great Bowerbird also uses a forced perspective illusion only visible to females. They place the biggest objects towards the rear of their courtyard and the smallest near the front. John A. Endler says: “The …
Oct 03
Dictator Fashion
The Devil Wears Taupe Not all the world’s dictators are clotheshorses, but as these leaders show, sometimes politics, power, and polyester combine to make fashion magic. LINK
Sep 25
Summer House Robe
With summer at an end, and inspired by the nude face of Zoetica Ebb during her No Make-Up Week at Biorequiem, I’m showing off my legs. That’s my house robe with shorts by Al Sharif of Syria. The slippers are Prince Alberts, the hat is something Father acquired while in Turkey, the couch is a new La-Z-Boy, …
Sep 15
The Naked Closet
Of all the things I had to toss out in the past week, the very easiest to deal with was my clothes. It might be because I didn’t have to toss any of them out. I had already rationalized my closet. It’s been purged of everything except bespoke and work uniforms. Though it will doubtless continue to …
- Author (Aurora Award Shortlisted, Technicolor Ultra Mall)
- Blogger (Obviously)
- Critic (Various Places, Various Things)
- Speaker (Panels, contest judge, etc.)
- One of Toronto's 12 Most Stylish (Toronto Life)
- Futurist (The weather will be . . .)
- Husband (Over two years now.)
- Worker (Cause writing is glamour.)
- Dandy (But probably not how you mean it.)
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