Obey - Savage Posse Gang Jacket

Cool jacket that's on sale at Metropark. I really like the attached hoodie and the color of the jacket. As I mentioned before, jackets are really important during this season and you can't go wrong with this one.

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Adidas - Originals ZX Racer

Sometimes you have to ditch the Black loafers or the boring white sneakers and add some flash to your outfit. I never much believed in outlandish sneakers, but these really caught my eye. They remind me of something a DJ would wear. I think they're cool as hell. So what if they are yellow? Time to stand out a little.

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Canterbury of New Zealand - Millfield Blazer

A good blazer is not that hard to find, but a GREAT blazer is really hard to find. Wearing a blazer automatically classes up an outfit, but that's not always enough. What I've been looking for in a blazer is something that classes up an outfit AND stands out in some way. That truly is hard to find, but this blazer has it in my opinion. The crest is a nice little addition and the blazer has a military feel without overdoing it. Definitely a good addition to a nighttime arsenal.

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A.P.C. - The New Standard

Jeans. Nothing is more complicated these days than buying a "cool" pair of jeans. Bootcut or straight leg? Raw denim or distressed? And just how detailed should the stitching on those back pockets be.

Frankly, I think reasonably fashionable people can differ about this kind of stuff. I personally do NOT wear bootcut jeans anymore because whenever I don't wear boots (which is 99% of the time) they look like bell bottoms. So I'm a straight leg kind of guy. I also like my jeans more on the tight side as opposed to the loose side, but not skin tight spandex style. I leave that to the tall hipsters in Williamsburg.

As far as details go, I have a couple of pairs of jeans for different occassions. If I'm trying to look more "classy", I wear a pair of dark jeans that are not distressed in any way. If I'm going for a more urban look, I love a few holes and some paint on there. It depends on the situation.

The above pair of jeans look like they'd go great with the "classy" look. Slim-fitting and pretty dark with no distress marks. I don't know if they'd necessarily stand out, but they would sure as hell compliment an outfit.

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The Spike-Hawk

OK, so I made up the name for this style myself. And this guy's hair isn't really in a mohawk at all. But you get the gist. In the realm of fashion, hair is king. Every girl knows this, but I think too many dudes forget it. They get a crew cut and think good enough. Not good enough. You only live once, so get a little wild.

Although I don't really dress punk rock, I love all punk rock hairstyles. I especially like when the look is crazy but has some semblance of order underneath it all. I believe I called it "ordered chaos" the other night. This guy has ordered chaos down to an art. Spikes everywhere, hair covering his face, the inability to walk into places with low ceilings without fudging up the do. Yet there is something poetic about it all. I'd rock this hairstyle in a second (and usually do, in a less drastic, more mohawk-ey way), and maybe you should too.

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Threadless.com - RED by Kneil Melicano

Threadless.com is a site I discovered with a simple Google search for "cool shit to wear". Artists send in their drawings and design ideas to Threadless and Threadless turns the cool stuff into t-shirts. It's about as simple as it gets, and it seems like they produce some awesome stuff, although you have to dig around the site a bit because some of their shirts scream douchebaggery.

The shirt above is probably my favorite of the bunch. A really pimped out picture of Little Red Riding Hood with a wolf skin on her head. The drawing reminds me of something you'd see in a graphic comic book. The only bad thing about Threadless is it looks like the shirts sell out pretty quick, and they don't necessarily reprint them. They only have XL sizes of this one left. Oh well, still a fucking awesome shirt.

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Superdry - Brad Jacket

I once read that your jacket is the most important article of clothing you wear because it is the first thing people see. Personally, I've never been a fanatic about jackets, but I concede this point: when it's cold out, people will see you in your jacket A LOT, so it probably pays to have something nice.

I own a leather jacket and I've done just about everything to it to make it look cooler, short of setting it on fire. I think the "rugged" look is what you're going for with a leather jacket. To me, the jacket above is almost perfect. Nice touch with the zippers, although I can live without the straps on the shoulders. If I was going to buy a new leather jacket, it would be this one (although then I'd have to beat the shit out of it all over again...)

Oh, and in case you care, David Beckham has sported this jacket in a couple of photos. So that automatically makes it cool! Right?!?!

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Green Apple Tree - Second Hand Tee

For awhile, I was very anti-t-shirt. It was because I saw t-shirts as very impractical: you can only wear them when it's warm outside, and swanky places usually won't let you in with them. About a year ago, I changed my tune, mainly because the cool graphics you can get on a t-shirt far outweigh the negatives. In winter, you can just throw a thermal on underneath the shirt, and if you wear a cool blazer over the tee, *most* places will let you in.

That being said, I'm still kind of picky about what kind of tees I sport. When I first got into graphic tees, I thought the Affliction-type stuff was cool. I grew out of that pretty quick and now I go for things that stand out, but not *too* much. I think this tee, from Green Apple Tree, is a pretty awesome example of a shirt I would wear. It catches your eye, but it doesn't overwhelm it. Anything with a kind of sexy looking girl on the front works for me :-)


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My Fashion Blog...

I've always liked fashion, so I figured everyone blogs these days, why not me??!?!!? I'm just going to post random stuff related to materialistic things, like clothes, haircuts and other cool things. I think of fashion as anything that catches the eye. So welcome to my world, enjoy your stay....


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