Image credit: Mpumelelo Macu on Unsplash Sneakers today are among the most colourful, elaborate, and extravagant things people put on their bodies. If contemporary fashion were fauna, trainers have evolved to be the eye-catching birds of paradise. This highly specialised evolution is all the more remarkable when you consider just how sedate their origins are. […]
Image credit: jonrawlinson / CC BY 2.0 Since becoming a card-carrying Watch Guy — which, in short, essentially means surrendering all of your free time and mental energy to coveting more timepieces than any one person could ever wear or afford — I have mostly been wearing the kinds of things Watch Guys get excited […]
Image is my own / All rights reserved I take an embarrassing number of photos of the clothes I wear. I don’t mean fit pics for posting on social media — although I certainly take those as well — but rather just quick, disposable snaps of something I plan to wear on a particular day […]
Welcome Collection / CC BY 4.0 Not being from the same world as the teens in the American shows and movies I watched growing up, I marvelled at what they were allowed to wear to school. Howcome Marty McFly, for instance, got to go in Nikes and a ‘life preserver’? (The closest I managed at […]
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Image is my own / All rights reserved If you read the recent entry on boat shoes, you might recall that Paul Sperry single-handedly (not counting the input of his dog Prince) solved a problem for sailors across the world and birthed a fashion icon in the process by inventing the Sperry Top-Sider. All of […]
Image is my own / All rights reserved I’ve spoken before on here about my love of cheap clothing — or, more specifically I suppose, of not spending a lot of money on clothes. It means that I’ve wiled away a large portion of my allotted time in thrift stores and swap shops over the […]
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Image credit: Pikrepo Writing recently about boxer shorts, I mentioned the age-old face-off between boxers and briefs. But there’s a related rivalry that’s equally noteworthy and has been the cause of much intercontinental confusion over the years. I’m thinking, of course, about the use of the word ‘pants’. In Britain it means underwear while in […]
Image is my own / All rights reserved If you read the recent entry on boat shoes, you might recall that Paul Sperry single-handedly (not counting the input of his dog Prince) solved a problem for sailors across the world and birthed a fashion icon in the process by inventing the Sperry Top-Sider. All of […]