When I was walking from the train to my building this morning, I came across a guy wearing a huge scarf, thick corduroy blazer and wool slacks. He was visibly sweating. It is (and was, at the time) 70 degrees outside. I know that everyone just hit all of the back to school sales and is excited to try out all of their new garb, but come on. He is not the only person that I have seen do this. It is a phenomenon that I noticed from the first fall after moving to the east coast. It almost seems like a lot of people who live here dress according to the calendar, instead of the weather forecast. So there he was sweating away, taking every opportunity that he could to check himself out in the reflective windows that we were walking past. I wanted to say “Don’t worry guy. Yes, you still look ridiculously overdressed.” Just because the kids have gone back to school does not mean that it is appropriate to wear sweaters and scarves. My advice to you, buddy, is: sit tight. Don’t worry, soon enough you will be shivering wearing that same outfit. Milk the warm weather as long as you can. Your new clothes will still be there in a couple of weeks.

Nothing says “fall is here” like doing some pull ups in the woods, wearing only boxer briefs. I think that, in this ad, Perry Ellis was aiming for a composition that all guys can relate to. Because honestly, what guy can’t say that in all of those times they found themselves wandering through the woods alone in their underwear, they didn’t stop a few times for a quick round of chin-ups on a tree branch?

It is back-to-school season. Football starts this weekend. The temperature will soon start to drop. All of that can only mean one thing: fall fashion ad campaigns. For whatever reason, I read several men’s magazine. I subscribe to enough of them, in fact that Gay Men’s Health, took notice and has been hitting me up for donations over the last 6 months. Anyway, when the fall fashion ads start to roll out, I always take notice. It’s hard not to, since you have to page through them for half of the magazine, before you can even get to the first article. Some of them are very cool, almost inspiring. Others, well… aren’t. Normally I just roll my eyes and turn the page, when I come across the latter. But this year, I have decided to showcase a few of the most ridiculous fall fashion ads that I have come across, so far this season. Today, I’m posting a couple of examples from a Dolce ad.
They always seem to have a pretty good mix of Gothic and Collonial style in their composition. But I’m just going to leave that aspect of it alone. What I WILL comment on, are the grotesquely massive fur ear-flap hats worn in the ads. Ok, these hats were disgusting last year. The only people that could pull off the look, were women over 6′ tall (without heels), that were going for that Siberian, yet Amazonian flavor. Even then, it was only accomplished with marginal success. Lets face it, the hats are huge, ridiculous looking and have real fur (probably). So what does Dolce decide to do, make them even bigger and more ridiculous. The one dude’s earflaps are wider than his freaking shoulders. I took 9 foxes to make that hat. I can see by the picture that you live on George Washington’s estate and everything, but 9 foxes for one hat? More to come. More Dolce & Gabbana looks.