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(Laurence King Publishing, $29.95), Sims deconstructs the elements of men’s style, those wardrobe and accessory staples that have endured for decades. Each gets a historical snapshot before he traces its progress through popular culture, and Sims unpacks everything from Salvador Dalí’s double-breasted overcoat and the tan trench favoured by film noir gumshoes like Sam Spade, to Hawaiian shirts, Y-fronts, aviator sunglasses and desert boots — even fountain pens gets the pop-anthropology treatment.I recently spoke with Piper Weiss, author of My Mom the Style Icon
“They’re defiantly wearing their clothing,” Weiss said. “It’s more about chutzpah and balls as opposed to a consciousness of what they look like. It’s a different take.”
Menswear designer Michael Bastian would seem to agree — when we discussed influences, he told me it was the way his father and the men where he grew up in Rochester, N.Y., dressed and father-son trips to Gloucester, Mass., that influenced his recognizable retro-preppy Americana aesthetic.
There’s something comforting about this sartorial sameness. It’s what Sims calls the benchmarks of masculine style through a “nostalgic soft-focus.” (And the same reliable casual confidence that has men’s grooming brand American Crew touting the late Steve McQueen rather than the latest Hollywood heartthrob as the inspiration behind their new limited edition Male Fundamentals line.)
With design honed through sport, military and work influences, here are a few male wardrobe elements Sims catalogues that you’ll surely recognize from the men in your life.
The Blouson: James Dean’s typical blouson from Rebel Without a Cause , the lightweight jacket also sometimes known as a Harrington or golf jacket, is a style worn by many different guys — from Elvis Presley in 1954’s King Creole to The Clash to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Sims traces it back to 1937 and clothiers John and Isaac Miller, the Manchester manufacturers who originated the G9 blouson under the Baracuta brand name, lined in clan tartan.
The Denim Jacket: Sims recounts the story of how when Bing Crosby was refused entry to a fancy hotel because he was wearing a jean jacket, Levi Strauss & Co. made him an entire tuxedo. Around 1962, Levi’s original riveted denim jacket of 1905 was amended with triangular seaming and higher front flapped pockets. It was popular with ranchers and long-distance haulage drivers alike (hence the in-house name that stuck — the “trucker”). H.D. Lee and Wrangler also made denim, the former notably creating the iconic blanket fleece and corduroy-lined western Storm Rider jacket, a staple on Paul Newman’s Hud.
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Japanese Told To Beat The Heat With Hawaiian Shirts. Well, that's one way to do it. Sounds like a Fashion Nightmare, but when it's this hot you do whatever you have to do to keep your cool, right? NPR has the story: "At Japan's Environment Ministry,
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It was lunchtime in Suva, Fiji, a slow day at the end of the tourist season in September of 2007, when four men appeared in the doorway of the Rever Beauty Salon, where Vinnie Tuivaga worked as a hair stylist. The men wore polished shoes and bright Hawaiian shirts, and they told Vinnie about a job that sounded, she recalls, like “the fruits of my submission to the Lord all these years.” How would she like to make five times her current salary at a luxury hotel in Dubai, a place known as the City of Gold? How would she like to have wealthy Arab customers, women who paid ridiculous fees for trendy cut-and-color jobs?
“I’ll talk it over with my husband,” she replied, coolly, but her pulse was racing. Vinnie, who was forty-five, had never worked abroad, but she often dreamed of it while hearing missionaries’ lectures at her local church. Nearly six feet tall and two hundred and thirty pounds, Vinnie moved with an arthritic gait. But she took care with her appearance. She wore shiny slacks, with a gold pageboy cap on her perfectly coiffed frosted black hair, and carried a bright-red faux-leather purse, stuffed with silver eyeshadow. She could see herself working in one of the great cosmopolitan capitals. The offer seemed like her big break, the chance to send her teen-age daughter to hospitality college and to pay her youngest son’s fees for secondary school.
Later that week, at a salon around the corner, Lydia Qeraniu, thirty-two, heard a similar offer. A quick-witted woman with a coquettish smile and a figure that prompted Fijian men to call out “ uro, uro! ”—slang for “yummy”—Lydia was thrilled by the prospect of a career in Dubai. So were many other women in beauty shops and beachside hotels across Fiji. A Korean Air flight to Dubai would be leaving from Nadi International Airport in a few days. The women just had to deliver their résumés, hand over their passports, submit to medical tests, and pay a commission of five hundred dollars to a local recruitment firm called Meridian Services Agency.
Soon, more than fifty women were lined up outside Meridian’s office to compete for positions that would pay as much as thirty-eight hundred dollars a month—more than ten times Fiji’s annual per-capita income. Ten women were chosen, Vinnie and Lydia among them. Vinnie lifted her arms in the air and sang her favorite gospel song: “We’re gonna make it, we’re gonna make it. With Jesus on our side, things will work out fine.” Lydia raced home to tell her husband and explain things to her five-year-old son. “Mommy’s going to be O.K.,” she recalls telling him. “Dubai, it’s a rich country. Only good things can happen.
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