A Distinctive Taste

Why Style Matters.

Hi everyone. This is Nickelson.  If you have been following menswear blogs for longer than 24 hours, he should look familiar to you.  A lot of you look at this and say.  “Hey I could definitely rock shorts with a suit.”  You take a stab at it, but it comes up short… First lets cover the concept of shorts with a suit added to your personal style.  I posted Thomas Riley’ of P Johnson tailors Sartorial Summer Ettiquite video last year and reblogged it recently.  When you are a master tailor like Thomas or have been involved in menswear for close to three decades like Nickelson, you know the rules of style.  More importantly you know which rules to break .  

Will Welch recently posted Yo, Your “Street Style” is Buggin’ explaining how the transition of influence has moved from the runways to the streets outside of the runways.  Where are these people getting their style points?  You guessed it, the interweb.   I am someone who can claim to be dressed by the internet.  My online alma mater is one known to most as Styleform.net.  Before there was an influx of style blogs to give you daily advice on style and fashion, there was this.  The focus from the beginning was never on fashion, but on style, cut, and aesthetics.   If you just wanted to learn you could search for hours on this site on basic style tips.  If that didn’t do it, you cold check out the WIWT section and see how some of the more inclined were getting down.  All in all these individuals put time effort and left themselves open for scrutiny.   To this day I am still self conscious about posting WIWT on that thread. 

Now, lets fast forward to today.  WIWT is posted in a matter of seconds without much rhyme or reason.  Someone post what they wore.  They receive a few likes, very little if any reblogs.  No comments.   The images are recycled over and over.  Bad cut here, not matching there.  Because of the lack of comments, the poster learns 0.  Maybe the color combination was right but the fit was off.  Maybe the fit was right but the jacket was out of season.   I feel that the conversation needs to be moved towards the basics.  Style, cut, fit.  Sid Mashburn said to GQ a while back “hey read a lot and want to hone in on the details: stitches per inch…shoe welting…bespoke this and bespoke that…just wild…”   When the conversation switches to who is doing it wrong towards who is doing it right, a new medium begins to open.  The “teachers” revert back to being students, since clearly they have no idea of fabrics, stitches per inch or the details of the craftsmanship behind it.  

By doing this, it becomes less relevant on how they are wearing what they are wearing and who and why they are wearing that.   In the menswear world the smaller the brand, the more detail they put into it, the more we appreciate.  Being teachers to a younger generation is our responsibility.  By doing this everyone benefits.  We demand more from ourselves in what we put on our bodies.  We demand more from the brands in regards to how they manufacture their goods.  We then demand more from the quality of images that are reblogged and uploaded to the interweb.  Someone can take a look and say, “maybe I shouldn’t post this” or if they do “Can anyone help me with this look”

Just  my 2 cents

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“PROJECT WOOSTER” Nick Wooster at PROJECT WOOSTER 2011

PHOTOGRAPHY BY Ali of A NOBLE SAVAGE     

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