Posted in geek, shoes, suit on October 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Tom Wolfe, the profoundly brilliant journalist and competent novelist, can wear a white suit. He has done so for forty years. If you had written the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and watched very carefully where you sit for all this time, you could too. If you haven’t, don’t.
(photo Pedro Parga’s flickr)
The starched high collar, pocket [...]
Posted in sapteched07, shoes, tagged stuart weitzman, aquatalia, teched, SAP, redmonk, ipod, gucci, tuxedo, , on October 29, 2007 | 12 Comments »
If you are more accustomed to wearing these…
…rather than these…
…then I say you are a lazy geek, L-A-Z-Y. It’s time to step it up a little. Your feet are your friends - and you can tell an awful lot about a person based on their shoes (same-old-same old, or unexpected complexity and daring?). These days, [...]
Posted in accessories, laptops on October 27, 2007 | 28 Comments »
As a geek, the ultimate fashion accessory - perhaps item - is the laptop. If you don’t even have a laptop, whao-boy, it’s time to figure out how the door-man let you in.
Hardware
Let’s start from the beginning: laptop selection.
Sorry, Old Faithful Don’t Fly with the geekinistas
The first trap here is to use whatever PoS your [...]
Posted in geek, suit on October 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The answer is always, always a very strong, and very loud: no!
(Note that whurley’s face has been photoshopped on to the above.)
Posted in geek, jacket on October 27, 2007 | 10 Comments »
The good man Thomas has seen fit to add me to the “editorial team” here, as he likes to call it. Like that old fool Socrates, my first confession must be, “oh, dear Agora of fashion, I know nothing of fashion.”
In this case, it’s true. It’s only in the last 6 months that I can [...]
Posted in jacket on October 26, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Maggie Fox, Canadian social media mogul in the making, has invested. And wisely. Rather than attempting to step into the deep quagmire of female fashion reporting, I’ll simply post the pictures and her email.
By email from Maggie.
The coat is Robert Rodriguez, wool & acrylic twill, purple 50’s A-line-ish, cropped sleeves (now I’ll need to [...]
Posted in geek, socks on October 26, 2007 | 7 Comments »
DFOF spies at work at Colgate.
Tennis socks are fine for tennis, but DFOF recommends they remain as close the tennis court as possible, and that they should, by law, only be sold to people who can prove they own a tennis racquet. Combined with polyester pants that are heading towards a health warning in [...]
Posted in bag, geek, hat, jeans, shoes on October 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Thanks to the DFOF 2.0 paparazzi model, aka the wisdom of spies, we bring you Cory Doctorow,the fellow behind the most excellent boing boing blog.
(photo from the flickrstream of rooreynolds, trainspotted by Cote)
This could be described as if Gucci does Railroad Engineering hats, but if one is going to wear a hat, make it iconic [...]
Posted in geek, shirt on October 24, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Atlassian President, Jeffrey Walkerand Socialtext founder, Ross Mayfield, model the latest in wiki t-shirts. Black is the new Black. Fierce competitors with excellent dentistry.(sp fixed)
The Atlassian t-shirt is a little like something from 1990’s Versace.
More about Socialtext here, and Atlassian here.
Photo courtesy Robert Scoble’s Flickr stream. via the excellent monkchips deli.cio.us links.
(disclaimer I use and like [...]
Posted in geek, socks on October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Traditional Bavarian attire makes an appearance at the teched community day. (Tracht) When worn by a real Bavarian this is particularly sartorial. Tribal, really. Traditional garb is having something of a revival down there in deepest southern Germany, and DFOF thinks this is a fine thing. Excellent rebellion against the imperialism of the chino. (see right)
There must be some [...]
Posted in geek, shirt on October 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Cyberpunk novelist, designer, academic, blogger, thinker, Bruce Sterling at the SAP Community day - Munich Teched. Great speech, Fascinating man.
but I kept expecting him to say,
“It seems that you’ve been living two lives. One life, you’re Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number, pay your taxes, and you… help [...]
Posted in geek, schwag on October 17, 2007 | 8 Comments »
A bespoke hugh gapingvoid cartoon t-shirt is the geek equivalent of a Alexander McQueen. DFOF and Nigel James expressing their appreciation. Photo the intrepid cote.
Technorati tags: sapteched07, schwag, gapingvoid
Posted in jacket, jeans, sapteched07, suit on October 17, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Sig, founder of Thingamy is no slouch.
Hankerchief lifts the blazer.
Crisp, elegant, polished and perfectly put together.
Technorati tags: thingamy, sapteched07, dfof, jackets, jeans, shoes
Posted in geek on October 16, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Business casual is an evil thing. It removes the sartorial elegance of the suit and tie, replacing it with the blandness of pleated trousers, striped shirts and penny loafers. It creates an illusion of freedom, but it imposes far more than it frees up.
Either let people wear what ever they like, or impose a set [...]
Posted in shoes on October 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
DFOF is not really a fan of slip on shoes. They can be a bit Swiss Toni.
I’ll make an exception for the Dr Martens slip on. Sensible conference wear, and good for airports (all that security).
These are customised, with special inserts. They have done many miles. The lack of polish is disconcerting though. They belong to [...]
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