I love learning new words. Today I learned that a Dandy is "a man who affects extreme elegance in clothes and manners; a fop." Online boutique New Dandyism addresses men's fashion from the perspective that there has been a new…
Continue Reading →The word "Amaznode" doesn't drip with fun, does it? In fact, it sounds a lot like a little bug that eats up your garden, or maybe even a wierd growth that ruins the careers of opera singers. It certainly doesn't…
Continue Reading →I was in Seattle yesterday afternoon for about 5 hours with about an hour free-- just long enough to poke my head into a few shops. I made it into a shop called Capital 1524-- a nice, well rounded collection,…
Continue Reading →We're all familiar with sites that buy up products in mass quantities and then dump them us for drastically discounted prices-- some examples that I like: Steep And Cheap (for skiing) and Woot (for techie stuff I'll never buy). Whisky…
Continue Reading →Gift shopping sites/catalogues always brag that they are an easy way to shop for that person you can't seem to find the perfect thing for; a claim that turns out to be total crap when you find yourself walking up…
Continue Reading →With a few free hours on my last rain filled afternoon in Amsterdam I made it over to Droog@Home, the design gallery, shop and offices of what some are calling the Dutch design super-humans. Having seen dozens of pictures of…
Continue Reading →Another gem of a shop I ran into today was Universe on a T-Shirt, a small workshop space on Bloemdwarsstraat, off the busy street of Rozengracht. They primarily sell t-shirt and sweatshirts on which they hand print their sometimes elaborate…
Continue Reading →The best shops in Amsterdam seem to be the ones I stumble in to accidentally. It seems like most of the popular shops readers have told me to go to so far overall are pretty lack-luster and over hyped. For…
Continue Reading →About three months ago, the legendary sneaker store Flight Club NYC opened a west coast branch in Los Angeles, Flight Club LA. If you are not familiar with the Flight Club concept, it's a store that operates on a consignment…
Continue Reading →Some of my favorite content on the site comes from our fashion vaults (that probably has a lot to do with my love for fashion, but I really do think we have found some fabric gems). I frequently find myself…
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