Lands’ End Canvas, from The Choosy Beggar November 18th, 2009 By

Lands' End
Lands’ End

Giving J. Crew a run for its money, Lands’ End just debuted Canvas — a more stylish line that GQ describes as “classic outerwear, fitted shirts, and crazy-soft polos, all at insanely affordable prices.”  We’re talkin’ poplin shirts for $30; “heritage” chinos for $40; shawl collar sweaters for $70; and pea coats for $80.  Unfortunately, Lands’ End doesn’t maintain a physical presence in New York City, but at these prices, we’ll take our chances with mail-order.

Courtesy: The Choosy Beggar

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Red Wing Boots – Suddenly They’re Everywhere November 3rd, 2009 By

It seems that ever since J.Crew featured them in their Fall ’09 catalog, Red Wing boots seem to be popping up everywhere.  Most recently, they appeared in the November 2009 issue of GQ’s Wear It Now column.

GQ acknowledges that Red Wing is “enjoying a long-overdue revival,” and that “no other label has done more to make work boots cool again.”  We couldn’t agree more.

The Red Wing Classic Work Boot

The Red Wing Classic Work Boot

J.Crew’s collection of Red Wings even includes an exclusive for a “carefully distressed” Red Wing boot (the same one featured in GQ). For about a hundred bucks more, you can have a unique pair “individually hand-burnished so they arrive gently worn in and distressed, as if you’d had them for years.”

J.Crew's Distressed Red Wing Boot

J.Crew Distressed Red Wing Boot

When stores as disparate as Sears and Orvis are carrying the same brand of shoes as Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus, you know the label has reached some sort of cross-over that could have only originated from the street or urban fashion scene.

We like them with  dark rinse jeans, preferably classic Levi’s 501s.

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Best Places for Men to Shop… If You Live Near Them September 22nd, 2009 By

Flyover Country

GQ magazine is a fine arbiter of style, but never let it be said that they don’t enjoy a fair bit of snobbery from time to time.  They have a fantastic little graphic slideshow of the best men’s shopping in the country.  Hot spots for retro fashions and modern street wear in 25 super-awesome cities across this great land of ours.

If you happen to live in Miami, great.  Check out Base for chic beach gear.  If you’re in Boston, don’t miss the vintage pleasures of Bobby from Boston, which was even used to outfit characters in A Beautiful Mind.  Presumably this means a great deal of tweed.  Or check out the $5K leather jackets at Jil Sander in Chicago (if you ask me, their featured model is a little Minority Report-creepy though).

But if you happen to live in any small town gems like Sandpoint, Idaho or Black Mountain, North Carolina, you’re apparently plum out of luck. There’s no shopping to do there, as far as GQ would tell it.  Well, I suppose there’s a Woolworth’s or a Walmart down at the end of Main Street, if you’d like to direct the horse-drawn buggy down thataways.

In our view, that’s really why God (or this guy) invented the Internet.  To give everybody the chance to buy the stylish brands that we all blow our paychecks on in this here big city.  You can even do it really well at places like beso – that cool little site named after our little blog.

Playful poking of big city fashion snobs and small towners aside, make sure to check out GQ’s interactive view of city shopping.  It really is pretty cool.  If nothing else, it may give you some ideas of where to move. For me, I think I’m moving to Portland to check out the men’s denim at Nolita.

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