Clik here to view.
The Rocking-R Ranch
It wasn’t much of a contest really. Cowboys versus Army. I flirted with the cowboy thing but it just didn’t have the sustainable siren call that playing army did. Vietnam was in full-swing and Mangum’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poor Man’s Brooks Brothers
“Poor Man’s Brooks Brothers.” I’m not sure where or when I first heard that but it made sense the moment I did. That’s what Joseph A. Bank was back in the early 1980’s when I discovered them. My first...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Flusser’s at the Sofitel!
Three times real fast… Flusser’s at the Sofitel. Flusser’s at the Sofitel. Flusser’s at the Sofitel. And I’m beginning to think that there’s a conspiracy afoot. The last time my sartorial daddy and his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Saturday Morning--Comfort and Familiarity
When I was a kid it was the barbershop next to the courthouse. Or the little haberdashery where I worked part time. Saturday morning congregants. Liar’spoker. Coffee. Cigars. Guy stuff before any of it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Funeral Suits
I remember when I decided on this Flusser suit. Navy blue might not be the most flattering color on me but like white dress shirts, every guy’s wardrobe has some of it; flattering or not. This one is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Aldens and Love
I recently declared to a small gathering of other clothes nuts that if I was ordered to source my shoes from just one maker for the rest of my life it would be Alden. To a man, they were mildly shocked...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Acid Washed Eighties
It’s a karmic thang. At least for me. I’m firmly settled on the fact that when what I’ll call… “humbling” photos of me emerge, I must reveal them. I’ve tried to destroy most of the worst ones but every...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Saturday Morning—Words and Nothing, Really
I just found a draft of this post that I began back in September 2012 and never published...LFG is still asleep. I’m almost giddy amidst the phenomenon of having her here with me for three nights in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mangum’s Army Navy
Spare me the comments about how I spend too much time thinking about the past. The older I get the more I choose to conjure a blissful childhood and come to think of it, there’s very little conjuring...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clik here to view.
ADG Fall 2013 Sneak Preview
Please don't flood my inbox with queries regarding who's gonna purvey these sublime togs. I'll share the sources with you in due time.Just let the anticipation build for now. Onward. Elasticized.ADG II
View ArticleClik here to view.
Riffin' The Blues
“Who’s interested in playing a band instrument?” I wasn’t certain that I wanted to play in the school band but at ten years old, when an offer to leave class and spend twenty minutes anywhere other...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sid Mashburn
Experience has taught me and my vivid, active, visual imagination that the longer I wait to witness what’s been declared worthy of my attention, the higher the likelihood that I’ll be disappointed. I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Irish Linen
Here. Look at this photo. Clothes. You know, the stuff I usually write about. But currently I have no time to write voluminously. Y’all already know about the lack of substance—even when I do...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Go to Hell: Spring 2013
The ADG 2013 GTH togs just arrived at Coffman's Menswear in Greenville, N.C. My boys Dextrose and Daddy Todd will be forwarding them to me shortly. Who'd a thunk that I'd be sourcing my play clothes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hackers
Ok. My Maxminimus drivel should now be back online and hopefully safe from other hackers. I’m in the business of ruffling feathers but hacking is a downright mean retort. Maybe it was the fella who was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Open Letter to Drakes
Dear Drakes,I’ve been wearing your goods for years. Even though most times it was private label, I could still tell that it was yours. The size of the pocket squares, the quality of the silk or linen...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Here. Look at this.
And gander at a few other flurries of nothing ‘til I can find the time to write a bigger, more fascinating pile of nothing. I’m just too blessed with a life to-do list that is overwhelming right now...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quality or Service--Don't Make Me Choose
A reader over at my tumblr asked this question ages ago and I’ve finally made the time to respond…“OK, as a veteran consumer and occasional custom orderer, which would you say is more important,...
View Article