So Context Clothing is this great menswear store in Madison, WI. Look, you have a new reason to visit Madison, WI. I check their site occasionally and have acquired some wishes.
I would like a pair of Momotaro Vintage Label 0701 Tight Straight jeans,

but they’re $285. So I’ll just have to keep wishing.
I’d also like to pick up this new issue of Free & Easy that they’re selling,
w/ Eric Clapton,

but it’s $31, kinda expensive but still a great magazine.
go there: Context
J.Crew’s new madras shirt:

I imagine many people making fun of me for wearing a shirt like this, but it’s beautiful I think. I love the giant blown up pattern.
…that’s what they should have called it.
When Men.Style.com was in existence, Tyler Thoreson and Josh Peskowitz started a great video program entitled In The Closet. Just two guys talking about cool stuff. Here’s the first in that series:
Appearing just now on the Sartorialist:

Wow, look at that color, both from what Anna Dello Russo is wearing but just photographically, very unlike Scott.
Garace Doré is French [Parisian].
Garance Doré is a photographer.
Garance Doré is Scott Schuman’s Girlfriend.
While in Paris this past fall studying, I dropped by Colette for a double t-shirt/book signing and well, let’s just say Scott Schuman is a fortunate man. Garance collaborated with The Gap to have an illustration of hers on a basic Gap t-shirt. Mr. Schuman was also there signing his recently published book, The Sartorialist. It was an experience to remember. Both of them signed my book and I got to shake Scott’s hand.
Everything was perfect – Paris, Fall, Scott and Garance, Colette, millefeuille afterwards.
Glenn O’Brien is a contributor for GQ, a magazine that I think has gone somewhat down the drain but has retained some highlights, like O’Brien. He’s funny, witty, and somehow makes things that don’t match look amazing. His “The Style Guy” feature is one of the only reasons to pick up GQ these days.
so go pick up GQ
I’ve acquired an unhealthy obsession for magazines recently; expensive magazines. These magazines just seem to do something for me, combining so many things I love. A magazine that I’ve tried to get my hands on for a while and recently got is a Japanese Menswear magazine called Free & Easy.
I first heard about it on a video series that I love on men.style.com, and the guys were going over some stuff and Josh Peskowitz mentioned Free & Easy. So I checked it out and thought it looked really cool. I found a cheap issue on ebay and although I have no idea what it says it’s absolutely amazing. I love the heritage clothing focus and the badass attitude of the whole thing. Also, the pure Americananess of it all is really intriguing. There’s a Ford Explorer ad that makes even a die-hard Japanese/German car lover like me want to buy one.
If you can get your hands on an issue, you probably won’t regret it. If you live in New York, then you’ll have no problem finding one physically, for the rest of us, especially here in Chicago for some reason, we must order ours.
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