Dangerfield!
in which we attempt to atone for past publishing sins.
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GREVANCE I WISH TO FILE WITH THE FASHION POLICE: This whole Banana Republic/Mad Men sales and marketing effort.
Simply put, the actual suits they’re trying to sell aren’t even remotely vintage in design or true to the style of the 60’s. The garment pictured above is called a Modern Fit suit ferchristssakes. Pairing a standard single-breasted suit with a skinny tie and a goofy hat isn’t cool, interesting, or exciting.
With all of that said, when I was in Hong Kong last fall I went to Sam’s Tailor and had a couple of suits custom made. I basically handed them a bunch of pictures of Pete Campbell and said, “make me look like this, please”. And they did. And the suits look great and are built to last. I’m not pointing this out to boast, rather, to let Banana Republic the know that they’re doin’ it wrong*.
*Yes, Banana Republic, the store, reads my blog.
I have come out of tumblr hiding to just point out that “high modernist” is the best descriptor for the entire set dec of Mad Men, and the thin lapels and slim cut through the torso, along with the length of the jacket, almost certainly place this cut in the early 60s. About the only thing weird on this is the stance of the buttons, which, from this small picture, is way too high. But they’re not making costumes- they’re putting a new spin on a classic modernist cut, because they shouldn’t be trying to replicate exactly the wardrobe from a period drama, because it’s not 1960, or Halloween.
I don’t shop in mass chain stores myself, but I also don’t fool myself into thinking that makes me sartorially independant. Mad Men informs the design choices of stores targeted at middle America? And this is a bad thing? It’s a good-looking show. You state plainly that your own preference for suit-cut was informed by the show. What’s the difference between you and the designer for Banana Republic?
If Banana Republic wants to lead a younger generation out of contrived shabbiness with mid-priced, reasonably-cut menswear that doesn’t look like some gross thing out of tip-top tailor, I can think of worse things. I hardly think this is fashion’s Attica.
And if you’ll recall, Draper wore cufflinks from Menkels Department store in the first season, and kept bagged dress shirts in his desk, so he for sure bought off-the-rack.
Anyways, back to hiding.
It’s straight Ghostbusters 2 in Vancouver right now. Lightning and everything.
I’m on a rooftop on Thurlow and Robson saFe BBQing under a gazebo
YALL ARE KILLING ME UP THERE ON LOOK’S BALCONY. KILLING ME.
Naked girls model shoes and belts for VICE
Comments (View) Indoor bamboo grown in soil! Amazing!
Shot by frequent Color contributor Angela Boatwright.
Love this concept. Love looking at naked girls. But a fashion shoot that puts Balenciaga shoes next to a pair of shoes from Aldo is an automatic fail.
Nothing here that bringing back the draft wouldn’t fix.
Ha. Ha.
Someday we’ll all look back on what was obviously the ANTHEM OF OUR GENERATION and we’ll kill ourselves.
And the time machine debate will change from “Kill Hitler or see a dinosaur” to “Kill the Postal Service or Kill the Postal Service.”
;(
(via videogum)
Never been to Strathcona Park before and enjoyed the sensation of riding my bike over the grass through the darkness to come over a small hill to unveil this. (via jennilee marigomen)
Oh man. Home sick.
