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Quality Goods, Minus the Middlemen (and the Cost)
For our whole lives, we’ve been trained to believe that certain things just cost what they cost. We just accept it without questioning it. It’s a model that disrespects men who may have discerning tastes but not necessarily the means. In a post-crash, post-Occupy, 99% world, it’s a model ripe for disruption. Continue reading
Posted in Accessories, Clothes, Essentials, Grooming, Menswear
Tagged accessories, affordable, details, dollar shave club, eyewear, glasses, grooming, harry's, indochino, menswear, shave, shaving, suits, warby parker
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Horn Rim Heroes: Making the Case for Those Thick Glasses
A friend recently asked me whether or not thick, horn-rimmed glasses would be good for him or if they had become passé. Since the powerful influence of Mad Men‘s style started creeping into the mainstream, inspiring men even in the furthest reaches of the urban sprawl to go skinny on the ties and lapels, the unlikeliest of men have joined the Thick Rim Glasses Club membered by icons like Jack Nicholson, Michael Caine, Cary Grant, Buddy Holly, Swifty Lazar, Lew … Continue reading
Posted in Accessories, Editorial, Menswear
Tagged accessories, eyewear, glasses, mad men, menswear, style
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The Spectacular Spectacles of Michael Caine
It perhaps began with his iconic three-time portrayal as Harry Palmer starting with The Ipcress File in 1965, but Michael Caine has displayed a spectacular, glorious, badass selection of eyewear over the years. From the chunkiest of horn rims to the understated wire frames he wears today, he has pulled off every pair with confidence and conviction. Fabulous. In no particular order, here are some images for your enjoyment…
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Tagged accessories, eyewear, frames, glasses, michael caine, movies
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Warby Parker: My Next Pair of Glasses
I love my Oliver Peoples frames, and I get complimented on them all the time, but they ran me almost $400. Never again. In terms of taking the ridonkulous price point of designer eyewear and blowing it out of the water, the kids at Warby Parker brought the big guns. They feature stunning custom eyewear in a nice selection of vintage-inspired frames all for $95. In a successful effort to make handsome eyewear accessible to normal 99% people with a … Continue reading
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Tagged eyewear, frames, gifts, glasses, parker, warby, warby parker
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