December 2010
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The Silentist: How to buy a dinner suit (tuxedo) →
Hopefully I can make a post like this sometime next year!
thesilentist:
I just received my dinner suit back from the tailor today — just in time for New Year’s Eve — and I’m plenty happy with it. In a lot of ways, I got lucky, but I also think I found a few tricks to nabbing one and avoiding all the lousy crap out there.
Basically, search “worldwide” rather than…
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“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated...”
– The yoga instructor read us this Marthan Graham quote as we lied on our mats during savasana. I immediately wanted to share it with you. I hope that we will always keep trying to express ourselves in our own ways. I can’t wait for the new year. (via amalfi)
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manshion.: Resolutions in a Sea of Confusions. The... →
Inspiration for New Year goals, sartorial or not.
“In the words of the late great Terence McKenna, “culture is not your friend” and I would suggest as a New Year’s resolution, if being resolute is what you’re after, I urge you to dead your engagement with blogs, especially the fashion ones and mass media culture in general for that matter, create your own culture, and if work and the...
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What are your 2011 sartorial goals?
As 2010 winds down, it’s time for closet inventoring and some (sartorial) goals to fill some of those gaps.
There are plenty of places on the interwebs to find lists of “essentials” or “basics”. To customize your own list, it’d be important to consider where you are in life (i.e. school/work) and what you do (office casual, office formal, construction,...
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Two New Links to Bookmark
I just wanted to share two new links I’ve found last weekend in case you haven’t come across them already. The first is a blog:
(The Natural Aristocrat)
Mix of thrifted items and expensive products = lots of beautiful pieces and inspiration.
And the second link is a directory:
(The Thrift Shopper)
Rainy day? Want to go look for some vintage products at low prices? Enter...
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"The Best"
As I sat in my hotel room, relaxing and reading a travel essay book my gf left behind, I remembered why even weekend-fuls of travels, like our trip to the Florida Keys is so wonderful.
(unfortunately, I haven’t uploaded my own Keys pictures yet)
Like a lot of things in life, the wonderful parts are (mostly) wonderful because they are different from our banal, regular lives. Without the...
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“But is anything as good as it could be?… the relentless pursuit of better...”
– “The Seduction of Good Enough” via The Essential Man Guide