I'm not sure how many of you Loungers are familiar with the Facebook photography page Humans of New York, but it's fairly popular in some circles. The photographer, Brandon Stanton, takes street portraits of people in New York and asks them probing questions, which answers he uses for captions...
The somewhat remarkable thing you learn when you reach adulthood is that not every article of clothing you own needs to be washed after a day of wear, which is the distinct impression that messy kids get from their parents. Obviously underwear, undershirts, and socks are to be changed daily and...
So I got this deerstalker from the J Peterman on clearance a while back and now the season's finally around to wear it! Unfortunately my suits are decidedly snappier in their sensibilities than can reasonably support this hat.
So I was wondering - where should I look for a jacket to wear this...
'50s casual is hardly the look we tend to discuss on the site, but this selection of classic button-ups made me dizzy:
http://www.shop-steady.com/category-s/1861.htm
I never thought simple blocks of color could be so striking and powerful, but this stuff really takes the cake.
As sort of a counterpoint to this thread, what items of vintage clothing do you admire, despite others (or yourself) telling you they're hopelessly gauche?
For me? The sort of corduroy business-casual leisure suits popular in the '70s as exemplified for me by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman...
This summer I'm hoping to take up a few athletic hobbies.
However, renewing my childhood interest in golf is not difficult from a sartorial perspective; that clothing is well-established. I would even be hard-pressed to think of a way to dress down playing golf. Many people dress better for...
Well, it's (unusually quickly for my native Minnesota) that time of year again, and for the first time in my short life I've decided to try out going sockless this summer. I never liked it as a child, and even to this day I wear socks almost 24/7. But I'm going a bit tropical this year, so I've...
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