Of late I’ve been thinking about the elements of my personal style and where they come from. Why do I like wearing grey so much? I hated the color brown when I was a child, but now I love it and wear it all the time. We are all influenced …
A few weeks ago I received a compliment at work that set me to thinking. The specific circumstances were that I was at On Point, checking in a young, Asian couple for their Genius Bar appointment. As I finished up with them the woman turned to me and said, “I …
Everyone should own something good—something that has lasted and will last. I’m talking about an item well-made … the kind of thing that’s put together by a craftsman … with care and pride. When you own something like that you know everything about it. You know where it comes from …
There’s a lot to say about color. Color forms a major part of my perceptual universe. I’m not suggesting that I’m unique in this—humans are predisposed to focus on sight out of all of our sense, and color is one of the key elements of sight. If we used color …
Editorial note: I wrote the original form of this essay some time in 2011 and published it here in 2013. In keeping with my usual preference, I am going to leave this essay as is, even though some of what I say in here is potentially problematic now. I prefer not to edit …
This is a very interesting article, especially in light of a lot of what I saw while I was in Hong Kong. In the US, if someone is wearing a Polo branded shirt then the figure of the logo is apt to be an inch or so tall. In Hong …
Well, I went through day one of wearing a pair of shirt stays to keep my shirt tucked in neatly. I specifically chose, yesterday morning, to wear an old dress shirt which has always been too large for me, thinking that it would be the best test. First off, the …
As I age, and am no longer the sloppy youth that once I was, I have become more conscious of how my clothes look. Stop laughing. I’m serious. To that end I put more thought into the clothes I buy, and even more specifically, into how my clothes fit. My …