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My Mama-Socks-And Hoping to Die at 75
Look at these great socks. Princeof Wales Check—Prince of Wales Plaid—Glen Plaid—Glenurquhart Check—Glenurquhart Plaid. When was the last time you saw a pair of these? Never. That's right.Seems that...
View ArticleShe is Safety--She is Home
She is Home. The source of our very essence.We are born from either collaborative concept or randy capriciousness. In three trimesters. Conditions of our residence be damned. She’s our mother ship and...
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I've Been Priviledged
To have had such an incredible mom. And it's always intrigued me to read her Salutatorian welcome speech from her high school graduation ceremony. She was sixteen when she crafted such a well written...
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I’m Home
After a flight from Florence to Charlotte and then DCA. And it’s been an incredible past seven days. Home’s now redefined for me and I’ll have to see how this new definition takes form as time now...
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Flusser Apologetics and JMW Turner Unapologetically
I kinda miss ole Daddy. ‘specially now since I’m a full-fledged orphan. Daddy this time being God, aka Alan Flusser. God you say? Yep. He’s a reluctant owner of the moniker but not too reluctant. I...
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The Texture of Christmas--2014
Texture-Pattern-Shape-Color…tactile and visual attributes. It’s no secret that the fuzzier for me the better. Until now.Restraint? Well I’m not gonna go overboard. But I do think in my old-er age I...
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The Stories…
The Stories…I’ll probably never write. I mean my head is full of them—and good ones, too. But I don’t think they’ll make it to daylight anytime soon. Ennui by Walter Richard Sickert circa 1914Why not?...
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Part One: Birmingham Alabama—In Alden Pebble Grain
South Carolina, my home state. Number forty-eight in SAT scores and number two in gonorrhea. We always jokingly said “thank God for Mississippi” because it always seemed that we were in a death roll...
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Part Two: Birmingham Alabama—In Alden Pebble Grain
Well to be honest I’m not quite ready for part two of my Alden Pebble Grain—Birmingham story. And I promise there will be more about haberdashery-esque observations and less ramblings about Birmingham...
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Bruce Boyer and True Style: The History and Principles of Classic Menswear
I love picture books. But I think I love words even more than pictures and God knows I’m a visual guy. My sartorial sensei’s volumes have always thrilled me and to this day I’ll pull one of them off...
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Part Two: Birmingham Alabama—In Alden Pebble Grain
It’s been so long since I published my Part One: Birmingham Alabama—In Alden Pebble Grain that you might want to go back and read it first.Part Two: Birmingham Alabama—In Alden Pebble GrainThen I...
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Sid Mashburn Washington D.C.
We've finally got a sartorial oasis in D.C. ! I spent an hour in one-on-one fellowship with Sid Mashburn last Saturday at the new store. I'll be concocting a story soon but until then, get on over...
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A Boutonniere in One’s Lapel
Fiorello. Or piccolo fiore. A little flower. Two of my favorite writers and sartorialists had decided views on such little adornments. George Frazier wore his with elegant restraint. And Frazier...
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2016
Happy New Year everyone. I've never been keen on making New Year's resolutions and nothing has changed in that regard. But I am going to try and post something here on my blog at least once per week in...
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Florence, S.C.
From an email that I wrote this morning."I worked at Singleton’s Men’s Shop after school and summers for years. The J&J lunch counter, Roney’s, and the Sky View were my go-to spots for teenage and...
View ArticlePleasures
Well there is Marrakesh and all of the associated sentient triggers there. Sounds, textures, and colors in the souks. Those great kilim and other colorful textiles house slippers that seem like just...
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Flannel, the Alamo, and Hickory Hill Part One
It’s flannel time again. And nobody wore them as well as Fred Astaire.I offer this erudite sartorial nugget as testimony to the fact that this blog used to be about clothes and to a great degree, about...
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He Wrote Me Back...R.I.P. Tom Wolfe
I'd just missed him at Alan Flusser's atelier one afternoon. And a few years before that I fingered one of his white jackets on a hangar at Vincent Nicolosi's flourescently intimidating workshop.I...
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Britches Bespoke…Clothing for Life
There’s something tasty on the horizon and it’s about damn time!One of the highlights of 2018 for me so far—other than the got my life back spine surgery—is my new acquaintance with Rick Hindin. Rick...
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Britches Bespoke D.C. This Week …Don’t Miss It!
I recently shared the great news about Britches Bespoke, the Mark Rykken—Rick Hindin tasty collaboration. Well I’m happy to report that the Britches Bespoke inaugural trunk show in New York was an...
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College
She was nine years old when I wrote my first story. And I just spent some time reading through my earliest tales as well as the reader comments. I reveled in those times and I turned out stories with...
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Ok...A Text Reply from This Morning
Thx. for tapping in. Ok is relative, right?So I'm not ok. By my definition. But it's good because I'm present and in the moment and dialed-in to what I deem not ok. And there's a woman here. Still...
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Alan Flusser on Richard Merkin
My Richard Merkin self portrait hangs above me as I cobble together this little update. I sent Carrie Haddad payments on it for about six months before it rolled in to Casa Minimus. It's one of my...
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Father's Day 2020
It's amazing how time flies. I wrote this story almost ten years ago and my goodness what a decade it has been for me since. My little daughter LFG who ultimately became as much of a focus here as...
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Yoga
I honestly didn’t know whether I could even remember the password for this blog. I haven’t visited here since I reposted that story about my father a couple of years ago. Like those who routinely read...
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