Look at these assholes
(Source: luxxxe)
Stuffed acorn squash with wild rice, turkey, and cranberries (Taken with picplz.)
A common misconception amongst men of the ready-to-wear age, and something of a phobia in both it’s lack of logic and it’s ability to elicit violent responses, is the little flash of sock that is sometimes visible between trouser cuff and shoe.
A gents trouser should fall to his shoe, and rest lightly on top of it. Too much length leaves a trouser cuff to pool around the ankle, creating a visual break in the line of the trouser and shortening the leg. Likewise a trouser cut too short to reach the shoe gets to flapping around like a bell, again shortening the line of leg on all but the heaviest and narrowest cuffs.
That a trouser should reach the heel of your shoe is another of those half truths we are taught as children - the real indicator of trouser length to the shoe is the size of the opening. A very wide cuff can fall almost to the floor before it breaks over the shoe, while a narrow cuff may not make it past the highest lace. If you simply must prohibit any showing of sock, cut your trousers wide in the English style. If you’d rather a lean line and long leg, allow it to taper, but cut it and cuff it the moment it meets your shoe. With a fine pair of socks and a well polished shoe, you’ll have nothing at all to fear.
I don’t understand how someone can be so attentive to detail when it comes to menswear and yet still not know the difference between its and it’s.
HAIL THE WALE!
Today is 11/11/11, the Day Which Most Resembles Corduroy (of ALL TIME). Join me and my fellow Corduroy Appreciation Club members in celebrating this most auspicious occaision.
HAIL THE WALE!
If you are so inclined, I encourage you to consider my 2010 address to the Corduroy Appreciation Club, which considers the many benefits of the fabric and of course the grave threat posed by corduroy’s sworn enemy, velvet.
Pork chops with apples and onions, Russian red kale with garlic and cranberries, flaxseed bread. And cider! All but the cranberries are from the farmer’s market. (Taken with picplz.)