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Like, OMG, I have a shot at making the Globe's Most Stylish Bostonians list
By adamg on Sun, 09/18/2011 - 12:10pm
One of this year's selections is Tim Love, an architect whose contribution to style is wearing untucked dress shirts and standing against walls. I do both all the time; in fact, as I type this, I'm wearing an untucked dress shirt (kidlet on seeing his photo: "But you're not wearing a white shirt"). I better start clearing a space on the mantel for the trophy (there's gotta be a trophy, right?).
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Jeez. That was a surprisingly
Jeez. That was a surprisingly unexciting lineup of ho-hum outfits.
at least he's conscious about it
well if you take the same outfit and skip ironing the shirt, washing the jeans, and tying the shoes you can be as fashionable as Brad Marchand!
c'mon
It's a little hard to see in part because of the crappy photos and poses for so many of the people...but he looks comfortable, casual but not sloppy (well, okay, the shoes are a little too casual/sloppy: Brad, find some tasteful leather shoes.)
He looks like what a 23 year old should look like - not someone who follows the "GTL" mantra and wears t-shirts that are too tight, or spends too much time on Newbury Street.
He looks like he slept in his
He looks like he slept in his clothes. The topic is stylish, not comfortable.
Page won't load properly
Boston.com won't load properly right now, don't know why... Anyone else? Using Chrome here.
I think...
it must be the glasses.
Ageless all
I know that the Globe's features writers are not held to the highest standards of journalistic excellence, but how could you pick a group that uniformly refused to pony up their ages? It's PUBLIC INFORMATION, I COULD GOOGLE IT.
So some random aging guy no
So some random aging guy no one ever heard of, dressed exactly like every 20 something for the past decade, is really one of the most stylish Bostonians? And what's with the random never ridden bicycle in the corner?
Consider yourself lucky..
as far as style goes, you really want to be on a list where Alan Bilzerian is trying to look like Michael Stipe? Or sharing a list with those douches who are desecrating the once hallowed name of Storyville? Or a self proclaimed "party stylist"? What is that? Somebody, please tell me what that is?....
If you want to get a real laugh, look up Storyville on Wikipedia. You'll see the history of the original club and then you'll scroll down and voila! An edit obviously placed there by some publicist telling the world how visionary the new owners are.
Hopefully George Wein is getting an end...
Storyville
I remember the revival of Storyville as a rock club in Kenmore Square below the Buckminster in the mid 80s. (Where the original Storyville had been). Fun place. The Buckminster Hotel wasn't there yet. It was a rehearsal space for bands and later a sort of low budget residential hotel.
The mid 1880's?
The Buckminster Hotel was opened in 1897. It's changed owners several times, and apparently had a couple different names there in between, but it opened as the Buckminster way back then.
My error
I should have said "The Buckminster as we know it now" was not there yet. In the 1980s and 90s it was extremely rundown and shabby, practically a flophouse. It now it sells itself as a boutique hotel.
Buckminster Hotel
For a while it wasn't recognizable as a hotel because it was being used as a dormitory for Grahm Junior College (which no longer exists). Who else remembers the White Fuel neon sign with the gushing oil well?
Supposedly the Chicago Black Sox plot (throwing the 1919 World Series) was launched in the Buckminster.
The odd thing...
When the Buckminster was used as a rehearsal space for bands in the late 80s/early 90s the other floors were still residential. I was friends with a band that practiced there and I would visit. I don't know how people lived there with the cacophony of six or seven bands all playing at the same time throughout the place. You could even hear them on the street below. Soundproofing only goes so far. Like kid bands in garages with egg carton soundproofing.
I cant believe that Tim Love
I cant believe that Tim Love made the list and not JOE MULLIGAN. What a shame. Dude can dress with the best.
Pray tell....who is Joe
Pray tell....who is Joe Mulligan????
Memories of Grunge Style
When I was growing up, my father and other male relatives that worked outdoors in Oregon and Washington had a pretty standard work clothing style: flannel shirt, T-shirt, jeans, workboots.
This was adopted by grunge bands out of the Northwest, and the "grunge style" (which was sensible work clothing for men of all ages for many generations) became an iconic fashion statement.
Adam's description sounds similar: men wearing what most of us consider sensible and appropriate clothing for their daily activities become inadvertent fashion plates when the not real world discovers their "look".
Swirly weren't you the
Swirly weren't you the original drummer for Nirvana, for an afternoon?
If you actually listen to
If you actually listen to interviews from the grunge bands back in the early 90s, they wore it because the pacific northwest is cold. The style is similar to Maine fashion as well (hello, LL Bean)
As for an untucked white shirt, the difference between them and other people around here is that they have real jobs. Boo hoo.
Tuck that shirt in and buy a belt.
Like OMG
How clever to get a body length tattoo to keep your 1/2 marathon training mantra word handy.... Perhaps a flashcard for a 10k?
Can we talk about the
Can we talk about the bicycle? I hope I see him riding that around Southie.
What my father used to call a
What my father used to call a goop. Looks like pre-arrest Pee-Wee Herman.
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