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Shopping bag reusability hierarchy »

Reduce, re-use, and recycle. But watch out when it comes to reusing shopping bags to carry your pumps while you commute to work in your New Balance sneakers. It’s important to coordinate. Not every bag goes well with your North Face jacket. Here are a few different sorts of bags, listed from lowest to highest [...]

How not to wear a belt »

Fashion Pony, originally uploaded by www.DaveWard.net. Dude tried to centre the buckle over his fly, which is wrong to begin with. And then he missed. I will laugh at you if you do this, because it makes you look like an asshat. It puts your entire outfit off-kilter, even if someone doesn’t necessarily notice exactly [...]

How to wear a belt »

Brown Belt & Blue Jeans, originally uploaded by RicoFit. (The sort with a conventional buckle, anyway). The buckle should not be in the centre. Not. In. The. Centre. It belt should be placed (more or less) so that the midpoint between the loop and the exposed half of the buckle lines up with the button [...]

Flip-flops are never acceptable footwear. »

Unless you’re at a gym, a pool, a spa, or maybe the beach. Tacky, tacky, tacky, tacky. Tacky. When they’re nice enough looking that they could be called “thong sandals”, I’m willing to let it slip, especially if they’ve got heels (I own a pair or two). But otherwise, quit it. And walking with someone [...]

Wearing a handbag? »

This sounds ridiculous. I don’t care how much your boring leather handbag cost (though, if you’re the type that goes around “wearing” yours, it was probably more than my last car — which is pretty silly, because your bag is boring and probably brown but definitely not special enough looking to justify the price, especially [...]

$200? How about… no. I own pliers! »

The jewelry on this site gives me a lot of good ideas, but unfortunately, I no longer live down the road from an electronics surplus store! I’ve been meaning to buy some parts in bulk from eBay for a while, but I’m pretty (excessively) broke. I like this diode choker. $195! I have all of [...]