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Red Wing

In Praise of Shoelaces

January 31, 2012

Sooner or later we had to do it. Long underappreciated, working tirelessly, always there, always adjustable, moving with the situation. What is it about the shoelace that continues to…not inspire a lot of awe or joy or gratitude? We don’t know. We say the time has come for the shoelace to have its day in [...]

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Get Back to Essential Clothes

January 30, 2012

This day in history: in 1969 the Beatles performed together for the last time, and it happened on the roof of Apple Records in London. Picture this: the Beatles are up on the roof, playing, and the police show up. Why? Because nearby office workers have complained that they can’t get their work done. Whoa. [...]

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Football and Clothes: A Good Bet

January 22, 2012

Football, you bet. Super Bowl dreams dancing in our heads. As of this writing, neither Ravens nor Patriots, and neither 49ers nor Giants, have won their chance for this year’s king of the pigskin world status. Yeah, it seems a bit odd, this being the Internet of instant information and all that jazz, for us [...]

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Friday the 13th: The New Black

January 12, 2012

What’s up with our superstitions? We have walking under ladders and the whole black cat thing. And then there’s Friday the 13th. No superstition gives us greater pause than our Friday the 13th thingamabob. We’re here to dispel the spell we’ve cast on ourselves regarding this. Because Julia Louis-Dreyfus (you know, Elaine from “Seinfeld”) was [...]

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A Holiday Poem For You

December 24, 2011

T’was the night before Excess, when all through the house
All the closet creatures were stirring, scaring even the mouse;
The coats were hopping on their hooks with some flare
In hopes that Dave’s New York soon would be there.
The boots were stomping…because noise was the goal,
While visions of winter socks danced on their inner sole.
And jeans with [...]

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How to Prevent Gridlock

December 19, 2011

This blog’s public service department has requested space to caution you about the ongoing holiday gridlock alert. No, not cars-blocking-the-intersection gridlock. We’re speaking now of the “I’m walkin’ here” Ratso Rizzo (look it up) phenomenon you see at department stores in the chaos leading up to the night before Christmas. As in: during the gridlocking [...]

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Black Friday From Home

November 23, 2011

Black Friday, the day after we stuff a turkey and then stuff ourselves, is fast approaching. People across this great nation will stand in line at the entrances to their favorite malls and stores in the middle of the night in order to be first through the doors for sales at six in the morning…which [...]

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Clothing of Excellence to Begin Your 2011

December 28, 2010

As a public service, we’d like to help ease you into the prospects of a new year. (For those who’ve haven’t been keeping score at home, that would be 2011.) If you’ve been tracking time by the expiration date on your milk cartons, now is an excellent time to dispose of the one that says [...]

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Great Clothing to Ring in a New Year

December 27, 2010

Like clockwork, New Year’s Eve comes around but once a year. While we celebrate with fireworks and parties and watching the ball drop, people in other countries around the world ring in the New Year with sometimes exotic and curious traditions.
In São Paolo, Brazil, they host the Saint Silvester Marathon. Guatemalans put their luggage outside [...]

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Winter Boots to Provide Danceable Durability

December 23, 2010

“Common sense and a sense of humor,” William James wrote, “are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
Well, we like that a whole lot. Combine that with another one, attributed to Emma Goldman: “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” [...]

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