I'd like to do a Q&A feature on my style blog, but I need some questions to answer! Ever had a question about men's clothes that you couldn't find an answer to? Now is your chance to ask. It's hard for me to know what guys out there really need to know about clothes, so please post your questions in the comments to this entry. I'll answer them ( Read more... )

Why? This is why. Somehow there seems to be a bumper crop of vintage formalwear around my size. I dunno what happened; I guess maybe there were a lot more thin guys around 100-150 years ago? But anyway, in the order in which I found them:

1. "VINTAGE MENS GOTHIC BLACK FROCK COAT JACKET STEAMPUNK"This may once have belonged to a preacher of some ( Read more... )

I can best answer this question with an analogy: Cigarette smoking is like Nazism.

No, this is not a reductio ad Hitlerum argument, and no, I'm not saying you're a Nazi if you smoke. And of course, I recognize that the two are fundamentally different, because cigarettes produce a biological dependency; nobody ever got addicted to Nazism. I'm ( Read more... )

What is your opinion on smoking?

In an attempt to wean myself from my brand-whorish ways, I'm reading a number of books about branding, marketing, and consumer psychology. I hope to gain a better understanding of why brands have such a strong pull, and thereby to diminish the pull itself. I'll be posting interesting quotations from these books here, for my reference and possibly ( Read more... )

In an attempt to wean myself from my brand-whorish ways, I'm reading a number of books about branding, marketing, and consumer psychology. I hope to gain a better understanding of why brands have such a strong pull, and thereby to diminish the pull itself. I'll be posting interesting quotations from these books here, for my reference and possibly ( Read more... )

When I read Obsessive Branding Disorder by Lucas Conley, I was intrigued by the Zaltman approach to discovering what customers think about a product: "If you were a stick of chewing gum, what would you tell the world about yourself?" Now, chewing gum isn't the sort of product that you'd expect to inspire strong emotions-but I, at least, definitely ( Read more... )

In an attempt to wean myself from my brand-whorish ways, I'm reading a number of books about branding, marketing, and consumer psychology. I hope to gain a better understanding of why brands have such a strong pull, and thereby to diminish the pull itself. I'll be posting interesting quotations from these books here, for my reference and possibly ( Read more... )

When I read Obsessive Branding Disorder by Lucas Conley, I was intrigued by the Zaltman approach to discovering what customers think about a product: "If you were a stick of chewing gum, what would you tell the world about yourself?" Now, chewing gum isn't the sort of product that you'd expect to inspire strong emotions-but I, at least, definitely ( Read more... )

In an attempt to wean myself from my brand-whorish ways, I'm reading a number of books about branding, marketing, and consumer psychology. I hope to gain a better understanding of why brands have such a strong pull, and thereby to diminish the pull itself. I'll be posting interesting quotations from these books here, for my reference and possibly ( Read more... )