August 2011
8 posts
Put This On: On Gay Talese & Limited Budgets →
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When we visited Gay Talese, Adam, Ben and I admired his home. It’s a beautiful multi-story townhouse in Manhattan. Mr. Talese told us how he and his wife bought the place. When he returned from military service in 1956, he and his wife invested his meager salary in one floor of what was…
Die, Workwear!: On Balancing Simplicity and Rakishness →
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I can’t find the thread right now, but many years ago, Michael Anton proposed on StyleForum that there were three stages to a man’s sartorial development.
- The first stage was when he becomes aware of the basic rules and slavishly adheres to them. He also goes out and gets his blue and white…