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What the Cartoonist is Wearing This Week, Inaugural Edition
🕑 Added 2024-11-19 23:07:12 +0000 UTCSo many people* replied to yesterday's post begging for photographs of me wearing clothing** that I gave in to the pressure and put these together. You will have noticed in my various social media incarnations that I am not much given to selfies, or any general thirsty celebration of my physical form, but when you take dead aim at my hobby of thrifting neat old clothing and release your arrow of flattery, well...I am but the humble tailor's dummy for the true star of the show.
1. Outfit One
It doesn't look nearly so impressive in these photos (and it really isn't), but in the context of a rainy-day Portland coffee shop where everyone else was wearing the standard issue beanie, black hoody, black jeans, and black tennis shoes, it was quite the atom bomb. Especially the hat. Real men's hats are dying a slow death, but not on my block. Have some self-confidence for god's sake, fellas. Shoes: gumsole high tops I cut down because the high-top portion was a ghastly puffy material. Photo quality? Lauren snuck these through her office window while I was evaluating the spot for my second rain garden. Sauce Comment: quiet sauce, but sauce. Could have done with a belt buckle but no turquoise.
2. Outfit the Second
"Who's Your Traddy" — I recently managed to successfully shrink a J. Crew intarsia I got on clearance last winter, and was glad when today was cold enough to layer it with a chambray. This combo (and the weather) seemed to want an old blazer, and to balance the ivy stiffness — yet harmonize with the ivy value of wearing old clothing until it is but the collar and hem — I threw on some beater jeans. The dogs: a pair of Mayports I thrifted a couple years back. Sauce Comment: The incongruous high-sauce element here is obviously the orange web belt. It is the modulating transition between the jeans and the top, and its craziness is far outweighed by the cold and quiet colors of the rest. Zigzag does not count as sauce, but we did recently rename her ZZ Flop, after her penchant for flopping across our paths and expecting belly scratches.
I have shared some sauce secrets with you. Now you share. Below.
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*A guy named Spyguitar who has a new mullet
**Yesterday's post does not contain nude photographs of me
Comments
Chris Onstad
This is like a sauce microclimate, what with the focus on the head. A reminder to us all that our sauce doesn't have to be all over the place. Today, *education reigns supreme*
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
I wear my sauce daily above the neck. It's my FACE. Nah for real though, statement pieces in my hair are my go-to if I need an extra zhuzh with my typical somber clothing. Multi chrome crochet hooks holding a bun in a spokelike manner, for example. Or a pocket watch+fob pinned in there or a miniature burlesque fan clip. Or just a 50s style ponytail scarf. Whole body fashion escapes me. I admire those who have a clue though.
Chris Onstad
That's fine stuff, and I can see Mr. Shevlin reserves the rakish Joyce slouch for himself. Those are some top shelf sauce ingredients indeed. The straw fedora is the '25 summer move, I'm callin it
Dan Ford
I like a scallop fold if I’m trying to be fancy, otherwise I just go for 3 point or a puff. As for hats, I have a custom fedora I got made in Ireland - Shevlin Millinery, check them out. He ships. Flat caps in different colors and weights, a straw fedora for warm weather and a couple broad brimmed for rain
Chris Onstad
Needs mending = wabi sabi = instant sauce packet
Chris Onstad
Hell yes that’s sauce, brother! What fold are you rockin, and what’s the hat? Tam O’shanter, or more of a sombrero drip?
Dan Ford
Do pocket squares count as sauce? Can I get a ruling? Because I wear them 2-3 times a week, usually. And real men’s hats most days.
Jacquelyn R Walters
Two excellent outfits. I'm getting over a cold and have been living in sweats and leggings, but I had to venture out to the pharmacy today so I'm wearing "real" clothes for the first time in nearly 2 weeks. I'm not wearing anything so fetching as yourself. Some pale straight-leg blue jeans (I discovered that one of the back pockets needs mending). A tshirt of a musician friend of mine layered over a long-sleeved purple tee. A green velour zip hoodie. When I went out, my outer layer was a black and white plaid shacket (with a Roast Beef "Oh no it's today" pin in the collar!) and some slip-on Vans.
