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Otto Knows | Million Voices (Original Mix)

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:39:41 -0500

Otto Knows | Million Voices (Original Mix)

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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:18:19 -0500

A.C. 1896 | Mélange Sweatpant | $625 Seems like a good idea.

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:49:19 -0500

A.C. 1896 | Mélange Sweatpant | $625

Seems like a good idea.

Acura | NSX

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:14:21 -0500

Acura | NSX

M.I.A. | Bad Girls

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:02:24 -0500

M.I.A. | Bad Girls

In My Mind (Axwell Mix)

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:16:00 -0500

In My Mind (Axwell Mix)

Before & After

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:46:00 -0500

I saw a pair of boots that looked familiar being kicked around the tumblrs. Turns out they’re a pair I’ve owned for over three years now. I posted about them a couple days after I purchased them, and I thought it would be fun to see how they’ve held up over three years of stomping through dirt, rain, mud, salt, slush, and snow. I think they look much better (though it might be time for a resoling soon).

10 January 2009

23 January 2012

Tim White | Welcome Chaos

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:00:05 -0500

Tim White | Welcome Chaos

Cedes | Toothpaste Squeezer | $295 This is so brilliant. And so...

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:39:00 -0500

Cedes | Toothpaste Squeezer | $295

This is so brilliant. And so expensive.

Tascam | iM2 Stereo Microphone | $80 This looks like a pretty...

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:33:07 -0500

Tascam | iM2 Stereo Microphone | $80

This looks like a pretty awesome little accessory. The only issue I can imagine, though, is that if you’re shooting video in landscape (which you should be, because shooting video in portrait is incredibly obnoxious), the stereo capabilities would be more or less nullified.

Brooks Brothers | Cotton Rugby Stripe Scarf | $58 I think you...

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:38:51 -0500

Brooks Brothers | Cotton Rugby Stripe Scarf | $58

I think you know why I’m posting this.

Rapha | Leather Town Gloves | $170 Just a couple days after Gilt...

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:30:57 -0500

Rapha | Leather Town Gloves | $170

Just a couple days after Gilt MANual posted an article on the merits of a nice pair of leather gloves, these beauties show up on Acquire. Needless to say, I’ve added these to my Amazon Wish List for Christmas 2011.

Emily Smith by Robert Harper

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:35:51 -0500

Emily Smith by Robert Harper

BMW | M5 Saloon I’ll take one.

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:34:00 -0500

BMW | M5 Saloon

I’ll take one.

Filson | Cover Cloth Umbrella | $100 Buying a big, expensive...

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:55:00 -0500

Filson | Cover Cloth Umbrella | $100

Buying a big, expensive walker umbrella is a highly credited play. Why’s that? Because, if you’re anything like me, you’re about a tenth as likely to lose it as you are a compact, collapsible umbrella.

The last time I purchased an umbrella was an incredible two years ago. It was this number from Brooks Brothers ($70), and it’s served me well. Prior to that, I would buy a cheap umbrella at CVS, use it once, and leave it sitting on the floor of a cab or hanging on the back of a barstool. If I did that every time it rained in Philadelphia, I would have spent two or three times as much by now.

BOTTOM LINE: Look fresh, get compliments, save money. Buy a well-made stick umbrella. Oh, and don’t go any larger than 50 inches in diameter. If you walk around the city with a 60 inch golf umbrella, you are an asshole.

Sneakers Are Dead

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:35:00 -0400

I remember feeling like I was on the cutting edge of fashion when I showed up at the Supreme store on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles at 5 AM to stand in line for a fresh pair of Supreme x Nike SB Blazers (pictured above). That was four or five years ago. My, how times have changed. If you caught me wearing something emblazoned with a swoosh outside the gym today, I’d probably hang my head in embarrassment.

This should come as no surprise. I’m definitely not on the cutting edge with this post. Hell, I’m probably at least three years behind the curve. The shift toward sobriety in menswear can be directly traced to the economic collapse of 2008. When the economy goes south, people do (at least) two things: they project a more serious image to the world, and they get frugal. Furthermore, true frugality reflects a concern with decreased costs over time. These two factors reinforce each other, resulting in your average American male taking interest in $300 Allen Edmonds cap toes and $600 Alden boots.

The part in the previous paragraph about true frugality concerning costs over time is the most important. A pair of Allen Edmonds, properly cared for, will literally—and I know how to use the word literally—last you for the rest of your life. The same can’t be said for Nike Dunks, and even if it could… Does it matter how long something lasts if the trend it exploits comes and goes within a handful of years? You know the answer is no.

God willing, one of these ~~days~~ years we’ll emerge from this recession. And when that happens, young men will probably start throwing money around on sneakers again. That’s all well and good, but I’ll probably sit this next round out. Mostly because, well, I’ll be a stodgy old lawyer by then, but also because dropping foolish amounts of coin chasing fashion over style seems silly to me now. Looking back, as much as I love those Supreme Blazers, I sure wish I’d spent that money on a solid pair of monk straps instead.

I’m never going to stop wearing Converse All Stars when I’m lifting weights or vintage Rod Lavers during the summer. But my days of showing up at a bar or club feeling entitled because I spent however many hundreds of dollars on my sneakers are over. And I’m a little ashamed that they ever existed in the first place.

Grand Theft Auto V | Official Trailer I’m not much of a...

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:47:00 -0400

Grand Theft Auto V | Official Trailer

I’m not much of a gamer, but I’m posting this for the following reasons: (1) This is a pretty artfully prepared trailer. If it were a movie, I’d see it in theaters. (2) The Grand Theft Auto games are more or less the only games I have played since Super Mario 64. (3) It takes place in my favorite city.

bobble | jug jug | $30 I’ve been meaning to buy a Brita...

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:28:15 -0400

bobble | jug jug | $30

I’ve been meaning to buy a Brita pitcher for the longest time, but now I think I’ll buy this, because it’s much more stylish. Yes, there is always room for style, even in the miniature refrigerator of my shitty studio apartment.

Fabbrica Pelletterie Milano | Saint-Jacque by Marcel Wanders

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:50:44 -0400

Fabbrica Pelletterie Milano | Saint-Jacque by Marcel Wanders

lunchbreath | Eighteen Ways to Express Your Individuality The...

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:38:50 -0400

lunchbreath | Eighteen Ways to Express Your Individuality

The ladies are lucky with this one; I feel like the monogrammed monokini is the most highly credited option.