There’s a ceiling you’ll hit fairly quickly when you get all your clothes from Target/the mall/etc. I feel like I’m just realizing that, but the thought just came to me while I was browsing through the Reddit fashion subreddit, where it seems like everybody is doing the same look over and over and over again with varying success. Sometimes it looks good and sometimes it looks bad, but it almost never looks great.


I met this guy at my cousin’s wedding yesterday. A friend mailed him his shirt from Paris, I found mine at Buffalo Exchange; his is a button-down collar, mine has this enormous point collar. Close enough?

My Converse, stylin’ on your Converse.

“I had a big fuckload of batteries in the pockets of my cardigan, so the cardigan hung down. I had a swagger. A cardigan with a swagger, right? Can you imagine getting knocked the fuck out by a dude in a cardigan? I looked like your granddad.” Tom Hardy on badass cardigans (via howtotalktogirlsatparties)

daveshumka:

John seems like a real fucking idiot.

(via putthison)

Also, I’ve got a post coming up that I think will be kind of fun, where I retract and correct some of the endorsements and recommendations I’ve made since I started this blog. Stay tuned.


Thrift finds 2012


I got those shoes on the left because I need some closed-lace dress shoes for my brother’s graduation, and my cousin’s wedding, and basically any other moderately formal occasion I’ll go to. They feel like decent shoes, and I think the interesting thing about how I got these is, I knew to get them because I’ve handled and seen enough good shoes to know what a good pair looks and feels like. The brand label was so faded I didn’t know what they were (turns out they’re Johnston & Murphy), but after about a year of this I can tell a good-looking shoe from an ugly one, and that was all I needed to know those shoes would be a good thing for me to pick up.

I told my brother I’d posted this and I actually hadn’t, but I don’t wear a belt because I don’t want to have a thick, dark line cutting me in half and making me look shorter.


If I could give just one small bit of advice, it would probably be not to wear anything by accident, or just because it’s there. Everything you’re wearing - or not wearing - should be there for a reason, because you decided it looked better or matched better or was the right level of formality or something.


I’m not sure what to think about this one. I wear this all the time, though.

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