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Ruminations on personal style

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 …

Something good, something old, something loved

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 …

Color, part one

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 …

How we brand ourselves

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 …

The dreaded mushroom

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 …