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Minneapolis News Team Now Onto Untucked Sport Shirts

December 17, 2008

About a year ago the crew from KARE 11 Minneapolis was in the v-neck sweater with white t-shirt look. Now they've moved onto more unsightlyness: hamming it up in untucked sport shirts.

GQ's 'Style Guy' Increasingly Out to Lunch

August 5, 2008

<em>GQ</em>'s 'Style Guy' Increasingly Out to Lunch

In the August issue of GQ -- the one with Seth Rogen on the cover -- "Style Guy" Glenn O'Brien admits to leaving a single button-down collar button unbuttoned, calling it a "je ne sais quoi casualness" and "flaunted carelessness." We think he means "artful dishevelment," but this is "overly-engineered dishevelment," and trying way, way too hard. The desired go-to-hell air needs to look completely uncalculated.

In the same issue, he endorses the hoodie, primarily for its blue-collar roots and utility. White-collar roots are preferable, and that damn hood is non-functional and simply in the way at least 90% of the time. Also, Suede from Project Runway wears them a lot.

Follow his advice at your own risk.

Drop a Spanish Bomb

December 19, 2007

Bravo is fast becoming The Toolbag Network. Last night on The Real Housewives of Orange County 40-something golf pro "Billy" sported the deadly rock-tee-under-a-blazer look. The Clash rock the fucking casbah and then some, but this is 2003 at best.

First the Wrangler Endorsement, and Now This

December 10, 2007

During yesterday's post-game interview, Brett Favre demonstrated the pitfalls of a 38 year-old wearing age-inapproriate clothing. Camo skull cap and printed tee. Yeesh.

Does HBO Hate America, Or Just Have a Little Style?

October 18, 2007

Top: Dan Marino on HBO's Inside the NFL with a clear lapel.

Bottom: Dan Marino on CBS's The NFL Today with the most post-peak and grossly unfashionable of all accessories: a US flag lapel pin. (Larry Craig wears one. 'Nuff said.)

Bonus points to Marino for the similarly askew tie knot. Dude swings to the right.

Guilty Of Disorderly Conduct ... in His Closet*

August 30, 2007

Bigger Problems Than A Bathroom Sex Scandal

Conservative Republican senator Larry Craig is in trouble for wanting to have anonymous sex with another man in an airport bathroom. But he clearly has bigger problems than public humiliation, a misdemeanor disorderly-conduct charge, and loss of his seat in the US Senate: namely, double-pleated and tapered khakis, loaded Blackberry belt clip, shiny penny loafers, and a pen in his shirt pocket, without a protector.

If we were his wife, we'd be wearing sunglasses, too, or possibly a Nixon mask.

* Closet. Get it?

GQ Flops

July 12, 2007

This summer GQ recommended wearing plastic flip flops to a summer wedding. If you wear plastic flip flops to a magnificent bastard's wedding, prepare to be beaten to within an inch of your life with them.