Anonymous asked:
Dear G.,
I saw your hot father's day gift show for uncrate.com in the web. While you (and your elderly female sidekick) were presenting the latest useless but cool gadgets like cufflinks I noticed something…
The sleeves on your blue shirt are a bit too long and too wide and thus tend to slide too far over your wrists. Have you ever thought of buying custom-made shirts or at least shirts with two bottom cuffs?
Greetings.
I love this question because I care about clothes and rarely get to answer such a specific question about something I’ve worn.
Long story short on that shirt is that I was asked to do the show on very little notice (2 days) and had just lost a ton of weight (over 20 pounds), so I had no clothing that fit and would look decent on television. I ran over to my favorite store, Ben Sherman, and chose a very safe, blue shirt and a simple striped tie. I prefer my shirts relatively tight but was afraid I would look bad on camera if I bought a small so I over-compensated and bought a medium. While it fit decently on my chest, it was definitely too long in the arms. A week later, when I did the show again, I wore a small and it looked much better (humble opinion, clearly).
I would love to get all my of stuff tailored to fit perfectly, but I don’t know how feasible it is since I buy clothes from different stores and most of what I wear is casual. And the bigger problem is finding a very good tailor, which I’ve had no success with in the past. I think about this a lot, however, and maybe it’s time to try finding a tailor again.
I said “long story short” at some point in this answer, and then wrote a novel. Sorry about that. Thanks for the question, though!
Anonymous asked:
no really what are you wearing? I want to see your shoe rack again, the onitsuka tigers were a good call.
My clothing consists almost entirely of the following: Diesel jeans, Ugmonk & ISO50 tees as well as some Banana Republic & AA colored tees, and J.Crew and Ben Sherman casual button-down shirts. I usually wear AA hoodies on top if it’s chilly. Shoe-wise, lately I’ve been wearing Puma El Reys and Pro Keds (yes, KEDS!). I still wear Onitsuka Tigers from time to time.
Here’s the thing about clothing: I hate shopping for it, I hate buying it, and most of all I hate having to pick out what to wear before leaving the house. I used to buy stuff all the time that I never wore and eventually donated to charity. These days, I don’t buy something unless I would willingly wear it right out of the store. Of course, due to this new method, I have about 8 shirts in total to my name. But at least I like them.
Hopefully one day down the road I’ll be able to afford to hire someone with good taste to do all my shopping for me. And then they can also dress me. God, that would be great.
The bottom of a receipt from Diesel says, “FOR SUCCESSFUL LIVING” and yet when I wore the jeans out last night I wasn’t offered any large sums of cash, no women threw themselves at me, and my car didn’t transform into a Lamborghini. Now I know what you’re thinking—maybe they mean successful in the spiritual sense. But even then it didn’t work, since I still have anxiety and the overwhelming feeling I’m going to die alone.
Thanks a lot, Diesel. Thanks for NOTHING.
