Friday Afternoon Meeting Style. . .

Poodle necktie courtesy of Chipp and the wool pocket square from the folks at Put This On. The wool flannel jacket is by Brioni, picked up for a song several years ago via Ebay, and the green and white university stripe OCBD is of course from L.L. Bean. Long live New England fustiness!

Suede shoes by Allen Edmonds and Merino wool socks by Dapper Classics.

Who says Friday afternoon department meetings on socially conscious pedagogy at the tail end of the semester are no fun? Arf! Arf! A seasonal variation on a combination of garments that owe a great deal to G. Bruce Boyer. The first appreciable snowfall of the season arrived here in Mid-Michigan early this (Saturday) morning, so the suede shoes will likely not see the light of day again until sometime in March, or even April depending on when the winter snow and spring slop dry up enough for nice shoes once more. In the meantime, the cross-country (Nordic) skis are lined up by the backdoor. Winter can arrive full blast any time now as far as I am concerned.

-- Heinz-Ulrich

Two views from our front step at about 9:30 this morning. The fall is my favorite season, but I like winter weather an awful lot too. Now, if only I could get the blasted snowblower to start, so it's ready when we really need it!

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Almost Mid-June Sunday Style. . .

A fter two months, Blogger has decided to allow me in the door once again, so I can add a long overdue post documenting my take on classic male style. Since we are almost in the throes of summer, let's go with a warm weather theme this morning. Now, the items above will not be to everyone's taste: Deck shoes without socks, shorts, pleats, skinny pale legs, etc. All invite tisk-tisking and debate in certain online fora, but that's ok. I wouldn't wear attire this to campus Monday through Friday, or to church. But for relaxed, comfortable warm weather-wear around the house during the weekends, with maybe a quick trip down the road for a gallon of milk at the super market, this will do nicely, thank you very much. It's certainly preferable to the wrinkled, torn, stained sloppy alternative we see everywhere in 2022. Neither is it at all far removed from how the various men and boys across three generations of my extended family presented themselves during even

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