September 2010
33 posts
“Something that I find is often lost in the ‘why should I bother with all this’...”
– PTO Reader/Viewer Ed Arnold
Here, here. (Hear, hear?)
I’ve been saying this for a while. Pull it together guys.
“It is a commonly held view that fashion and makeup are trivial concerns:...”
– Linda Grant, on the Powell’s Books blog, writing about writers and style.
(Thanks, Matthew)
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Insouciance and Aplomb: Thoughts on the Bow-Tie
I’ve long defended pre-tied bow-ties under the premise that one can simply not get as perfect a knot with a self-tied bow-tie. While I still believe this to be the case, I’ve come to develop a new appreciation of self-tied bow-ties over the past few weeks as I’ve worked with them a lot more. I don’t recall the exact quote, but I think it was Alan Flusser who said that a...
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