Fresh way to tie a scarf

Now that a chill is in the air, a fresh way to tie a scarf.
 
Via The Sartorialist.

 

Vic Reeves Loves Tweed

  Sometimes I post things here just so I know where to find them later.  That's sort of how I started this blog anyway.  I liked idea of having a blog roll that showed the blogs I look instead of saving the site as a "favorite".   This way I could view the blogs I look at by "Date of last update" rather than check each to see if they've been updated recently (isn't modern technology is wonderful?).

  I came across this on ACL last night.  I don't remember seeing this before, but I thought it was very entertaining, even for someone who has no interest in menswear.  But for someone who IS interested in menswear or tweed, one could only imagine how exciting it would be travel the Scottish countryside in search of the source of Harris Tweed.  And to have your own personal tweed pattern made, that's just straight off the hook!

Enjoy.

Alden Design Contest

With all due respect to A Cordial Churchman and the recent bow tie contest, Leather Soul's Alden Design Contest is a contest that you can really sink your teeth into.  To enter, come up with your own Alden shoe or boot design within the given guidelines and you have a chance to win the shoes or boots that YOU designed.

The best part is somebody is going to win and that somebody might as well be this body.  Good luck...you'll need it because I have conjured up the ultimate Alden shoe.  It's hype!  You might as well just shoot for the boot category because I have the shoe category all wrapped up.  After the contest is over I'll post what my design is (hopefully) or would have been (most likely).

Here is some Alden shoe porn for inspiration.

Bow Tie - Round 2

This is my second time wearing a bow tie (first time was back in April).  I got this tie at An Affordable Wardrobe's Top Shelf Flea.  The tie itself is a handmade madras bow tie from The Cordial Churchman. 

There's a doctor in the building at work who has a "friendy mutton chops" beard and wears a bow tie everyday.  I happened to walk by him today in the hall and we gave each other a head nod as to say "Yes, we may look like knuckelheads with our bow ties but we are also pretty damn awesome because we can pull it off."  We said all that in a nod, it was powerful.

Not a very well thought out plan

It seemed like a good idea at the time.  I was trying to google this blog (Tea For One, as it was).  I'd like to at least be able to google my own blog and know that it is easy to find.  It wasn't even remotely one of the top results.  Tea For One is a Led Zeppelin song that I can't even hum the first bar to.  A bit hypocritical if you ask me.  So I decided to change the name and address of the blog to something more obscure (e.i. easily searchable on Google).

What I do know is the blues, and everyone knows that the blues start with Robert Johnson.  When I practice enough, I can play They're Red Hot all the way through.  In one verse, he and his babe bought a V8 Ford and they wound that thing on the running board.  Ahh, "The Running Board", that would be a good name for a blog.  But alas, it was taken (and not being used, damnit).  In another verse, the monkey and the baboon are playing in the grass and the monkey stuck his finger in the Good Gulf Gas.  Not as good as The Running Board, but good and available.

So I took it...and lost my blog roll, which is one of the main reasons I have a blog.  And I also lost my followers, yes, plural.  My lovely wife was one of my followers.  I can get her back.  But the other follower was a blogger named Tucker.

It was quite humbling when I found out that someone I didn't know, and blogger at that, was following my blog.  I had seen his blog before, however it was not on my blog roll.  Of course I immediately became a follower of his blogs and put them on my blog roll.  What I hadn't noticed was that he put my blog on his blog roll.  Now the name and address change to my blog has totally screwed that gig up.  Not a very well thought out plan.

Until I found out that someone was actually following my blog I never considered myself a blogger, but if you've ever seen What About Bob?, Bill Murray's character says "I'm sailing, I'm a sailor, I sail!".  Well, if I have a blog and I post blogs then that makes me a blogger.

Leather Soul

Leather Soul is a Hawiian shoe store that specializes in Alden shoes.  The have a blog and update it frequently when the get new models in.  Check out these boots which are THE BOMB.  Also check out the comments, the salesman gets right back to peoples questions.

blog roll

Alright, got a good start to the blog roll.