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    duchessofnutsHamilton Nolan
    6/12/14 12:53pm

    He's being too kind, if anything. This isn't opinion, it's a fact; wearing sneakers with a suit is no different to wearing a smart shirt with a "fun" tie covered with images of Tweety Pie, and I wish you death.

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      chillymillerduchessofnuts
      6/12/14 12:57pm

      For your use of the phraseology is not different to, I submit that the proper response to your wishing anyone death is "I am rubber, you are glue."

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      A_Copy_Editorduchessofnuts
      6/12/14 12:59pm

      Shit. Serious question. I am about to go on a very important business trip this coming Monday. I had to buy some nice dressy clothes. Don't have dress shoes. But I did plan on bringing my pair of black suede (and never before worn) Pumas, and for my brown suit, my brown leather Tigers. Technically they are sneakers, but it's not like they're red Chuckies or fucking cross-trainers. THOUGHTS? Also: please don't wish me death, as I have two really cute kids, one of whom is only two months old.

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    SeriousWhimsyHamilton Nolan
    6/12/14 12:55pm

    I'm the new breed. I'm nimble afoot. I'm ready for revolution.

    Patrick Henry went through multiple drafts before settling on "Give me liberty or give me death."

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      Dr_ZoidbergSeriousWhimsy
      6/12/14 1:29pm

      Nike considered that for a motto but decided it was too long to read on billboards.

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    RussianistHamilton Nolan
    6/12/14 1:58pm

    To the Editor of the New York Times Style Section

    via pneumatic post/messenger boy

    Dear Sir,

    I was taken aback by the incompleteness of your publication's article of 12th inst. concerning the new vogue for gymnasium shoes in formal settings. Leaving aside my own opinion on the appalling nature of this development ("ungentlemanly" is an understatement, more suited to describe the likes of wearing white after Labour Day or wearing dungarees anywhere outside a barn), I shall focus on the fact that nowhere in the article was an opinion on this grave matter solicited from Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Schermerhorn, or even from one of the remaining 397 leading ladies of our fair city, parvenus though they may be. I humbly request a follow-on article including this vital information on the topic. I would also recommend a thorough thrashing of the author by your own hand, to serve as a lesson and example to his fellow writers.

    Best Regards,

    C. Knickerbocker, Esq.

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      PredatrixHamilton Nolan
      6/12/14 1:28pm

      I found a daguerreotype of the author.

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        swishandflickHamilton Nolan
        6/12/14 1:10pm

        I love hating the New York Times style section.

        Oh, really NY Times? You have an awesome visuals department and great journalists? Well, your style section sucks ass. So there's that.

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          JebidiahAtkinsonHamilton Nolan
          6/12/14 1:39pm

          I write for the New York Times, and even I can't fucking stand the Style section.

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            swishandflickHamilton Nolan
            6/12/14 1:24pm

            My best New York Times. Sub in whatever is actually the cool restaurant name.:

            "Spectacles, once the purview of the optically challenged, now adorn the high-cheekboned faces of New York's fashion elite.

            One can hardly walk into a casual brunch at Gramercy Tavern without observing any manner of young and old wiping their plastic frames with a small cloth made of microfiber materials made for just that task.

            Many of them, having been raised by conscious families who wouldn't dare let their child go a year without an eye exam, have perfect 20 by 20 vision.

            "I just feel that glasses give me the air of an intellectual," said Stanley Davis, a 23-year-old Harvard student in paleontology who is pursuing an unpaid internship in fashion design this summer.

            Indeed, his plaid red checkered pantaloons and fitted collared shirt give the air of what would've been considered the height of uncool in the 1980s, but now they connate a sense of admiration."

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              PizzaCasseroleHamilton Nolan
              6/12/14 12:58pm

              Harumph! Harumph and pshaw I say!

              GIF
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                Seneca the Younger(er)Hamilton Nolan
                6/12/14 1:04pm

                Keep poking fun, you young punks. One day you think you're the cat's pajamas, and the next you're old. Now Twenty-three skidoo, off my lawn!

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                  Meander061Hamilton Nolan
                  6/12/14 2:13pm

                  The Mind-Bending Adventures of Percival Dunwoody, Idiot Time-Traveler from 1909!

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