Luciano Barbera appreciation. A man who has always championed a softer shoulder line, a fuller jacket, and trousers that just graze the top of your shoes.

starting my first day as a twitter programmer. no experience but it can’t be that hard. wish me luck!

how are there low birth rates when everyone here is a big baby

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1967, when he was a sophomore at UCLA. Kareem was an early customer of custom tailors. His tailor, who had to stand on a chair to measure his chest, noted that he had an inseam of 51'. Note the high-rise trousers and longer jacket.

a surprising number of people can't get their minds around the idea that people's style choices are not always motivated by a desire to get a date or advance their career

for classically cut suits and sports coats, your trousers should have some relationship to your jacket so there is a coherent silhouette. here is what i mean

Grant had a level of style few will ever reach. But I think Tim and David get closer to it—despite not following Tristan's style advice—because they employ certain ideas. Meanwhile, Tristan lacks Grant's elegance because he doesn't pay enough attention to the details.

I think style is more about knowledge and developing your eye. My friend Tim thrifts most of his clothes or shops from affordable brands like Spier & Mackay. The blazer and grey trousers you see here were things his mom bought from Ralph Lauren when he was 16

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IMO, Tristan—and many of the people who follow him—associate style too much with having a certain body type (muscular), living a certain lifestyle, driving fast cars, and having a lot of wealth.

You also don't have to wear tailoring. My friend David Lane Design, who posts under the name bigfits1 on Instagram, is super stylish because he knows how to dress for his body type and how to use clothes as social language. There are lots of great casual looks on his Instagram

The last thing I want to note, which I've noted in other threads, is that fitness is different from style. It's fine to be into fitness. But it's not true that you have to be a certain body shape to be stylish or dress well.

Comfort is central to elegance because you can not look elegant if you are uncomfortable. Tristan puts darts on everything—even the front of his shirts—because he wants to show off his figure. That's fine if that's your aesthetic, but it's not dressing like Grant.