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Mens Jeans

Blending Comfort and Self Expression

February 20, 2012

From our “What’s Up With That?” department, do you ever wonder what movie critics do on their days off—do they go see a movie? You ever wonder if the manicurist does her own nails? When it comes to clothing, we may not be exactly what we wear. Still: clothing gives us hints of someone’s attitude, [...]

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Get Out of the House and into Contemporary Fashion

February 15, 2012

Tomorrow in history…well, this is fairly amazing. On February 16th, 1957, the Toddlers’ Truce got cancelled. And yes, you read it here first. Seems that the British government said that their TV station had to shut down every Monday through Friday from six to 7 in the evening so that all of England could put [...]

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Stay Calm, Casual, and Comfortable This Spring

February 12, 2012

Yes, we know that we run the risk of alarming the population with a headline like that.The prospect of wearing excellent clothing should not alarm. And yet, we feel compelled to alert you to the fact that this is February. And that means there are fewer days in this month than any other during the [...]

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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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We Are The Dave’s

January 29, 2012

Alongside today being the birthdays of, oh, W.C. Fields and Tom Selleck, the Investigations Unit of this blog has discovered an all-important calendar even. Today is the 27th anniversary of the recording of “We Are The World.” This is notable in that it brought together the unlikely combinations of musicians who, if you ask us, [...]

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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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Covering Up for All the Right Reasons

January 19, 2012

So yesterday Wikipedia went dark. And Google had a black rectangle over its logo, with just a hint of the “g’s” blue tail peeking out from below. Protest stuff, making a statement over an issue. And it got us thinking about how we cover ourselves, too…with clothes. We’re not Adam and Eve—unless your name is [...]

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The Encyclopedia of Style

January 14, 2012

Having survived Friday the 13th relatively intact, the Calendar Department of this blog now prepares you for January 15th. And on this day in ancient history (well, in 2001, which only seems like a long, long time ago), Wikipedia, that Internet encyclopedia thingamabob, went live, online, into the electronically connected universe. And we learned this, [...]

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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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Cotton: An Appreciation

December 28, 2011

As a public service, and because we wear so much of it in so many ways, we figured that an appreciation of cotton was in order. First of all, cotton is a plant; it grows as a shrub in the tropics and subtropics. Its fiber is harvested and spun into thread, and from that thread [...]

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