putthison:

According to CNN, every cardigan Mr. Rogers wore on the show had been hand knit by his mother. 

Just another reason why Mr. Rogers is cooler than you. 

New Easter shoes.

(Source: theaestate)

putthison:

“Old Clothes, Like Old Friends”

While catching up on my men’s style blog reading, I came across this post by Nicholas Storey at A Suitable Wardrobe: 

I am wearing a mid-weight worsted navy and grey pinstripe suit; a separate vest in grey wool; a poplin shirt, woven silk tie, a pair of navy calf and off-white nubuck, toe- cap Oxford co-respondent (spectator) shoes and a Panama hat. I bought the hat around 1984, when Herbert Johnson still had an independent existence in a high, light and airy shop in Bond Street, which still resonated with its fame as a hatter to the haut ton, following patronage by Bertie, Prince of Wales and his set, various crowned heads of Europe, and blue bloods from the USA and elsewhere. I don´t think that (unless I lost it), I should ever replace this hat: being a firm believer that old clothes, like old friends; old books; old wine, and well-loved places bring us special comforts that only time and familiarity can reliably bring us.

The passage reminded me of something Yukio Akamine recently said:

The shoes I wear today are from John Lobb, they are 25 years old. When I first got them they weren’t really comfortable but after 25 years, they really feel comfortable. With beautiful things, it is all about learning to wait, being patient. People today, they don’t want to give it time. But it is like love, it is like a relationship, it is like learning, like all the things we admire, it takes time. Anything that happens in the snap of a finger isn’t good.

Both seem like good reminders that we should spend more time cherishing the old clothes we have (assuming we’ve invested well and they’re of good quality) rather than buying new ones. 

because i always enjoy looking into other people’s homes via the magic of internet. and because i like playing around with this lens. and because semi-sunny weekend afternoons always inspire me to photograph my bedroom.

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I’ve been living in Silicon Valley for the last two weeks and will be here for another two. So far I’ve noticed two things that won’t go away:

1. Everyone here has an iPhone (by “here” I really do mean the places I go within Mountain View/Palo Alto - when I’m in San Francisco I see much more variety). I know that’s not revelatory or anything. Everyone everywhere has an iPhone. But not like in Seattle. In Seattle I feel like I see as many Androids these days as I do iPhones. Or maybe everyone in Seattle keep their phones hidden while here everyone has them out for display. I don’t know. I do know that it’s reached the point where I would be less likely to get an iPhone again because of how many I see. And I’m not someone who will stop liking something the moment it’s popular. I’m usually too late to the game to be that much of a charicature. But still. They are disgustingly ubiquitous here. That or I’m really embracing the luddite part of my old man charter, rolling my eyes at the young kids these days. (Also, probably because I’m like 30 minutes from Apple’s headquarters. The same way that Seattle might have a high portion of Windows Phones right now. This could also be because in general I get annoyed with any blind fanboy and fangirl and the more I see of one brand the more I assume the whole area is infiltrated with fanboys and fangirls. )

2. People in Silicon Valley know how to dress. So many well dressed men and women. Well, duh, also. San Francisco is 40 minutes away. And the climate tends to not needing to be cozy all the time. But being here has definitely made me turn my head a few times and seriously inspiring/challenging to not get lazy with my own wardrobe. Of course, traveling means that I can only do so much with what I brought. Might be shipping some things home when I finally do get to go home.

My personal style icon.

giving my wardrobe inspiration a new kick. (please excuse the slouchy socks.)

Just got back from seeing Source Code. Jake Gyllenhaal’s jaw line and my penchant for anything time-bendy related got me in the seat. Sadly, it seemed to shift gears so much halfway through that it felt like a completely different movie - and not the one I paid $11 to see.

The only character I actually cared about was the shepherd figure, Captain Goodwin - played very well by Vera Farmiga (who I’ve never heard of before, but apparently she’s an academy award nominee); in fact I think Farmiga gave the best performance in the whole movie. The characters felt pretty one-dimensional otherwise. My sister and I started giggling every time Dr. Rutledge (the puppet master, essentially) came on screen. My sister astutely said she didn’t even know what genre that character belonged in.

What started as sci-fi became an identity crisis became a coming-of-age. All with lots of explosions and fast paced action.

I heard on NPR the other day that maybe there’s a new genre in town: “a much narrower trend […] the sci-fi romance.” I did see The Adjustment Bureau and that movie was far and away better. It was solid in it’s storytelling, knew who its characters were, and really this whole post is an excuse to post this picture: it was a much more stylish film. As long as the genre is more like Adjustment Bureau than Source Code, it’s my new favorite kind of movie.

With the exception of Facebook, I’ve been avoiding the internet for four months. Not on purpose but when you don’t read prolific blogs for a week, it becomes too much to catch up after two weeks and by the time you hit a month it’s just more stressful than it’s worth and you realize it’s time to take a breather. Of course when I peek back in it’s as though I’m 18 and navel-gazing with the best of them.

But really, listening to “Cosmic Love” this morning wearing my new cardigan just got me out of my head in a really necessary way.

Jesus. This is beautiful. For anyone who adores book arts. And for anyone who gets breathless from jaw-dropping stop motion animation.

I’ve posted before about Warby Parker. At the time the response to the site was so overwhelming, that they had halted home try-on orders. Got an email from them the other day that since I had signed up with their mailing list, I was getting a chance to get in early on their next round of home trying-on.

So these five frames should be on my doorstep tonight. I have a few days to test them out, take pictures, and figure out if and which I want to add to my growing collection. At $95 a frame, with free lenses and shipping, the method kind of can’t be beat.