Tag Archive: style
Dec
27
Nov
10
Glowing Boutonnière by Breeyn McCarney and Christopher Lewis
I have the same relationship with technological style as I do with my wife: Fascination and repulsion. Glowing cufflinks and the like are theoretically neat but the execution often leaves much to be desired. To my mind, at least. Some people manage to build an entire aesthetic around these objects. While it’s not my cup of tea, …
Aug
22
Toronto Life’s Twelve Most Stylish
Toronto Life decided that I’m one of the city’s twelve most stylish people. The wife still can’t believe they didn’t go with the pic of me eating tacos in my underwear. I can’t believe they actually got a usable photo. I’m pretty stiff in front of a camera and don’t like being told what to …
Jan
24
Sprezzatura
As I child, I’d watch Blue Jays games with Dad. The bat cracked, the ball sent on a line into a gap for a sure double. We’d hold our breath. Devon White loped towards it. Then, somehow, he’s there. Waiting. Never seemed to speed up. Always seemed to jog. But his glove always found the …
Nov
28
Nov
01
Dressing For The Zombie Apocalypse
You slept in that day. When you finally awoke you noticed that your RCA clock radio had gone off but there was nothing on the air except static. You switched it off, rolled out of bed and put on your housecoat. You were halfway through your first cup of coffee when you got the news from the internet. Late last night, the dead rose from the earth and were now roaming the earth as zombies. That certainly explains why your favorite blogs were not updated and why everyone was just tweeting “BRAAIIIINS!”
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
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
26
Jul
02
Pictures of a Man in the Flare
As I take people like Oscar Wilde, Cicero and Friedrich Reck-Malleczenwen as my models of political dissent, I think it’s important to remember that even in horrible times, especially then, beauty, dignity and basic human decency are of paramount importance. Although they are the first things to become improbable, you must never allow your better parts to …
Apr
15
British Style Genius – The Street Look
YouTube – British Style Genius – The Street Look – Part 1. VIA STYLISH GENT
Apr
02
Superfluity
pic nicked from here When Einstein’s theory of relativity became famous, he got off much easier than Darwin. He was not expected to explain why his theory failed to account for the location of heaven nor was he expected to add an intelligent designer to the mix. Whatever your local mystic would have you believe, …
Although Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) he has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (sci-fi), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap.
