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There is always a need, whether it is providing a nutritious meal or after-school childcare. But as the holidays approach, those needs seem to grow. With that in mind, Community Chest of McCook is in full swing with its annual fund-raising appeal and a goal of raising at least $80,000 by the end of the year.
So what exactly is Community Chest and what does it do? Community Chest services 13 agencies in Southwest Nebraska, which in turn provides support to people of all ages and walks of life. As always, all money donated to Community Chest stays in Southwest Nebraska to benefit the area.
For many in McCook and Southwest Nebraska, the name "Community Chest" may not initially sound familiar. Instead, people think of United Way when they hear about community fund-raising organizations. Actually, the original concept of pooling efforts in fundraising to support local organizations began as charity organizations in latter part of the 1800s. The first Community Chest was founded in 1913 in Ohio. The original Community Chest of McCook was formed in 1962 and joined United Way in 1992.
In 2013, the local committee decided to split from the national United Way organization and return to a completely locally-based Community Chest, under the Nebraska Community Foundation.
Interim president Lisa Felker noted that the current committee is made up of people who care passionately about Southwest Nebraska and understand the needs that exist. "Our job is to monitor how the donated funds are spent so that it is used wisely," Felker said. "We take that role very seriously."
She said that most of the agencies run on a shoe-string budget. At a minimum, the agencies figure the funds from the Community Chest into their budgets and many are dependent on the funds to make their programs a success. "These agencies make do with what they have and operate their offices pretty lean," Felker said.
Members from the Community Chest committee meet with the agencies on an annual basis to determine how they are using their funds as well as to determine how much will be allocated for the upcoming year.
And those agencies benefit a wide variety of individuals and families. Donations are used to help children with educational activities through Head Start, Live Y'ers, YMCA programs and the TeamMates mentoring program. Community Chest supports programs for the developmentally- and physically-challenged through the Swatter 4-H Club, as well as for youths who simply need direction in life.
In addition, CASA, the Homeless Prevention program, Domestic Abuse/Sexual Assault services and the Salvation Army all help families suffering through hard times. "Many of these families do not qualify for welfare or other assistance and have no place to turn in an emergency," Felker said. Rounding out the services offered through the agencies are Adult Basic Education, Commodity Supplemental Food, Family Resource Center and the Lutheran Family Diversion Program.
It should be noted that the Community Chest committee does not just wait around for donations to come in, but also raised money through a special program, the "Prom Store," which provides prom dresses for young girls who do not have the money to buy that special dress, Felker said.
"We are planning on hosting the third annual prom dress promotion in 2016, but we are very much in need of donated prom dresses to make the program a success," Felker said. Dresses can be donated at any time at McCook National Bank.
During the first two years of the program, more than 50 dresses a year were sold, at a charge of just $25 a dress. Money raised through the "Prom Store" also goes into the Community Chest general fund.
Donations to Community Chest can be made in a variety of ways, from direct contributions of cash or commodities to drafts from a bank account to payroll deductions. For more information about making a donation, contact any of the committee members including Lisa Felker at McCook National Bank
Community Chest of McCook fulfills local needs
There is always a need, whether it is providing a nutritious meal or after-school childcare. But as the holidays approach, those needs seem to grow. With that in mind, Community Chest of McCook is in full swing with its annual fund-raising appeal and a goal of raising at least $80,000 by the end of the year.
So what exactly is Community Chest and what does it do? Community Chest services 13 agencies in Southwest Nebraska, which in turn provides support to people of all ages and walks of life. As always, all money donated to Community Chest stays in Southwest Nebraska to benefit the area.
For many in McCook and Southwest Nebraska, the name "Community Chest" may not initially sound familiar. Instead, people think of United Way when they hear about community fund-raising organizations. Actually, the original concept of pooling efforts in fundraising to support local organizations began as charity organizations in latter part of the 1800s. The first Community Chest was founded in 1913 in Ohio. The original Community Chest of McCook was formed in 1962 and joined United Way in 1992.
In 2013, the local committee decided to split from the national United Way organization and return to a completely locally-based Community Chest, under the Nebraska Community Foundation.
Interim president Lisa Felker noted that the current committee is made up of people who care passionately about Southwest Nebraska and understand the needs that exist. "Our job is to monitor how the donated funds are spent so that it is used wisely," Felker said. "We take that role very seriously."
She said that most of the agencies run on a shoe-string budget. At a minimum, the agencies figure the funds from the Community Chest into their budgets and many are dependent on the funds to make their programs a success. "These agencies make do with what they have and operate their offices pretty lean," Felker said.
Members from the Community Chest committee meet with the agencies on an annual basis to determine how they are using their funds as well as to determine how much will be allocated for the upcoming year.
And those agencies benefit a wide variety of individuals and families. Donations are used to help children with educational activities through Head Start, Live Y'ers, YMCA programs and the TeamMates mentoring program. Community Chest supports programs for the developmentally- and physically-challenged through the Swatter 4-H Club, as well as for youths who simply need direction in life.
In addition, CASA, the Homeless Prevention program, Domestic Abuse/Sexual Assault services and the Salvation Army all help families suffering through hard times. "Many of these families do not qualify for welfare or other assistance and have no place to turn in an emergency," Felker said. Rounding out the services offered through the agencies are Adult Basic Education, Commodity Supplemental Food, Family Resource Center and the Lutheran Family Diversion Program.
It should be noted that the Community Chest committee does not just wait around for donations to come in, but also raised money through a special program, the "Prom Store," which provides prom dresses for young girls who do not have the money to buy that special dress, Felker said.
"We are planning on hosting the third annual prom dress promotion in 2016, but we are very much in need of donated prom dresses to make the program a success," Felker said. Dresses can be donated at any time at McCook National Bank.
During the first two years of the program, more than 50 dresses a year were sold, at a charge of just $25 a dress. Money raised through the "Prom Store" also goes into the Community Chest general fund.
Donations to Community Chest can be made in a variety of ways, from direct contributions of cash or commodities to drafts from a bank account to payroll deductions. For more information about making a donation, contact any of the committee members including Lisa Felker at McCook National Bank
Thursday, November 5, 2015
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Crayola changed the name of its "flesh" crayon to "peach" back in 1962 - but Google "lingerie" in 2014 and you'll find the name "nude" still overwhelmingly refers to light-peachy-beige.
So a simple thing like wearing a white shirt to work isn't simple for a woman whose nude isn't "nude."
Do you wear white, and know it'll show? Or a close-as-you-can-get beige or brown ??? and know it will still show?
Nubian Skin, a new London-based lingerie/hosiery business that has just opened online, is creating quite the splash with its answer: Four shades of lingerie and hosiery that range from a golden caramel to a deep brown with just a hint of rose.
Maybe even cooler? Founder Ade Hassan has keyed each to mainstream makeup lines' foundation colors. So if you wear Mac's NW47 or Bobbi Brown's Warm Walnut, Nubian Skin's Cinnamon is the shade for you. If you wear Bobbi Brown's Golden or Bare Minerals in Warm Tan or Golden Tan, consider Caramel. (Your mileage may vary, of course. But it's more help than we've seen anywhere else.) Other shades are Berry, the darkest, and Cafe au Lait, the lightest.
Lashawnda Becoats, of Charlotte, N.C., calls the foundation-match idea "fantastic" _and the business overall "a really exciting thing."
Becoats, recently named editor of Pride Magazine in Charlotte and a woman who's written about fashion and lifestyle for years, says, "Most people probably don't think about it.
"You wear white under white and black under black. But to have something and to not worry 'Hey, can you see my underwear under this?' would be fantastic ... Every woman of color can definitely relate." (Yep: Hollywood's Thandie Newton and Kerry Washington have both posted about the place, even before sales began: "am excited!" and "Awesome," respectively. And Charlotte women say they've seen Nubian Skin all over Facebook.)
Becoats says she hasn't found anywhere locally that carries a color appropriate for her.
Charlotte fashion blogger Kenya Hunter, a Laurens, S.C., native who works in corporate IT during the day, says the lack of skin tone range "has always been a frustration," and she doesn't buy locally.
Since the rise of business-casual office dressing means many women don't feel required to wear hose, she says, hosiery hasn't been the problem it was five years ago. But the lingerie?
"I've made do ... by finding something that was 'close enough' and going with it. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. (If) I could select something that would match my skin tone, I'd be open to making that investment. That's the way you have to look at it."
Prices range from about $50 to $60 for bras (which run 30B to 36DD/E, with more sizes promised) and $16 to $25 for briefs, etc. That's not too far outside mainstream upscale lingerie prices - but shipping to the United States tacks on roughly $25.
Hassan told British website Black Ballad she had worked in investment banking and finance before launching this company, at age 30: "When wearing clothes, especially in a professional environment, a large proportion of women's tops are sheer. When you are in that context you want to be taken seriously and not worrying if someone can see your black bra strap."
Says Becoats: "We've (been) missing out on a whole market of women who have needs but who have taken for granted that they have had to fit into the status quo. When you create a market that allows those women to see themselves, they're going to move toward that market.
"I'm going to look into it, so I can get out of wearing only black underwear!"
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Crayola changed the name of its "flesh" crayon to "peach" back in 1962 - but Google "lingerie" in 2014 and you'll find the name "nude" still overwhelmingly refers to light-peachy-beige.
So a simple thing like wearing a white shirt to work isn't simple for a woman whose nude isn't "nude."
Do you wear white, and know it'll show? Or a close-as-you-can-get beige or brown ??? and know it will still show?
Nubian Skin, a new London-based lingerie/hosiery business that has just opened online, is creating quite the splash with its answer: Four shades of lingerie and hosiery that range from a golden caramel to a deep brown with just a hint of rose.
Maybe even cooler? Founder Ade Hassan has keyed each to mainstream makeup lines' foundation colors. So if you wear Mac's NW47 or Bobbi Brown's Warm Walnut, Nubian Skin's Cinnamon is the shade for you. If you wear Bobbi Brown's Golden or Bare Minerals in Warm Tan or Golden Tan, consider Caramel. (Your mileage may vary, of course. But it's more help than we've seen anywhere else.) Other shades are Berry, the darkest, and Cafe au Lait, the lightest.
Lashawnda Becoats, of Charlotte, N.C., calls the foundation-match idea "fantastic" _and the business overall "a really exciting thing."
Becoats, recently named editor of Pride Magazine in Charlotte and a woman who's written about fashion and lifestyle for years, says, "Most people probably don't think about it.
"You wear white under white and black under black. But to have something and to not worry 'Hey, can you see my underwear under this?' would be fantastic ... Every woman of color can definitely relate." (Yep: Hollywood's Thandie Newton and Kerry Washington have both posted about the place, even before sales began: "am excited!" and "Awesome," respectively. And Charlotte women say they've seen Nubian Skin all over Facebook.)
Becoats says she hasn't found anywhere locally that carries a color appropriate for her.
Charlotte fashion blogger Kenya Hunter, a Laurens, S.C., native who works in corporate IT during the day, says the lack of skin tone range "has always been a frustration," and she doesn't buy locally.
Since the rise of business-casual office dressing means many women don't feel required to wear hose, she says, hosiery hasn't been the problem it was five years ago. But the lingerie?
"I've made do ... by finding something that was 'close enough' and going with it. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. (If) I could select something that would match my skin tone, I'd be open to making that investment. That's the way you have to look at it."
Prices range from about $50 to $60 for bras (which run 30B to 36DD/E, with more sizes promised) and $16 to $25 for briefs, etc. That's not too far outside mainstream upscale lingerie prices - but shipping to the United States tacks on roughly $25.
Hassan told British website Black Ballad she had worked in investment banking and finance before launching this company, at age 30: "When wearing clothes, especially in a professional environment, a large proportion of women's tops are sheer. When you are in that context you want to be taken seriously and not worrying if someone can see your black bra strap."
Says Becoats: "We've (been) missing out on a whole market of women who have needs but who have taken for granted that they have had to fit into the status quo. When you create a market that allows those women to see themselves, they're going to move toward that market.
"I'm going to look into it, so I can get out of wearing only black underwear!"
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Whenever men’s wear designers find themselves in need of inspiration,
they turn to the pantheon: Cary Grant, Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.
Though roughly 330 million deities populate the Hindu heavens, there are only a handful most people worship daily and know by name. Similarly, though there are about 330 billion images of celebrity divinities floating around the web empyrean at any given moment, when it comes down to it we seem inevitably to worship the same group of guys. This is meant in terms of style.
One hardly needs name them. Just utter the words “male style icon” and images inevitably form of celestial beings like Cary Grant, Paul Newman or Steve McQueen.
At least they do among that segment of the population that came of age before all manner of visual information was streamed directly onto the cerebral cortex by way of Instagram. That group would, of course, include most men’s wear designers, never in any case a culturally progressive group and less so when it comes to frame of reference — or, as image theft is often euphemized in fashion, “inspiration.”
“A lot of designers latch on to the same handful of guys,” the designer Michael Bastian noted recently, declining to point any fingers, both for diplomacy and because he himself has made frequent withdrawals from the familiar image bank. “It’s Steve McQueen, it’s Paul Newman, it’s Cary Grant and Fred Astaire, all done to utter death,” Mr. Bastian said.
Photo
Cary Grant (shown in Paris in 1956) helped define the term “fashion icon.” Credit RDA/Getty Images
It is probably worth pointing out that there are good reasons why the same small group of men continues to exert a disproportionate influence on what we here at Men’s Style think of as men’s style.
Not only were Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Cary Grant uncommonly handsome humans, they were also possessed of that certain ineffable quality we categorize as cool. They looked great in clothes seemingly no matter what they wore. In part, this was because they looked as if they gave clothes and fashion not a moment’s thought.
“Perhaps the first thing I learned about style was that if something makes you feel good, chances are you look good,” Remo Rufini — the 54-year-old Italian billionaire who made his fortune by restoring cool to Moncler, a fusty and largely forgotten ski-wear label — said during the recent New York Fashion Week. “I think what makes people ‘icons’ is the confidence they give off wearing whatever it is they love to wear.”
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Preternatural confidence is a signal quality of the male icons under discussion. And it is, to be sure, a highly limited group, lacking altogether in racial and social and gender diversity. “So few black leaders have been allowed to shine forth,” and find an enduring place in the style pantheon, said Horace D. Ballard Jr., an essayist on black style and curator of education at the Birmingham Museum of Art. “Where is Marvin Gaye or Paul Robeson?”
Photo
Marvin Gaye in 1970. His style has transcended generations but has been largely ignored by the fashion elite, according to Horace D. Ballard Jr., an essayist on African-American style. Credit Afro American Newspapers/Gado, via Getty Images
The available images of each of those men, no less than those of Newman, McQueen and Grant, convey a powerful sense of the difference between wearing one’s clothes and having them wear you. And in this they are all starkly unlike the dress-up dolls turned out in borrowed tuxedos at the Emmy Awards or any of the now ubiquitous and wholly purgatorial red carpet events.
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“The distinction between then and now is this idea that celebrities, the supposed role models, tend to be styled,” Josh Sims, author of “Icons of Men’s Style,” said by telephone from London. “They have assistants and their look is a professional, very deliberate creation of a team.”
That is not to suggest that the male Hollywood stars of the last century were unconcerned about image, he added. It is well established that Steve McQueen required that his bluejeans were tailored in such a way that one of his favorite assets, his behind, was well accentuated.
The care McQueen took with his off-screen appearance was also mirrored in the stylish cut of the clothes he wore in some of the films that seem to play in an infinite rerun loop in the imaginations of many men’s wear designers — classics like “Bullitt” and “The Thomas Crowne Affair.”
“Even the khakis he wears in ‘The Great Escape’ were not in any way accurate to the period,” Mr. Sims said. Standard-issue trousers for members of the Allied forces during World War II would have been wide legged and with a high-waist, ample in the rear. “McQueen had his cut to a ’60s proportion” for the film, Mr. Sims said. “They were much slenderer and much more fitted than the traditional trouser cut.”
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The Italians have a handy term — sprezzatura — for sartorial gracefulness achieved through artful nonchalance. The concept behind sprezzatura was first codified by Baldessare Castiglione in his 1528 treatise, “The Book of the Courtier.” In it he steered young Renaissance gentlemen away from dangerous shoals of artifice and affectation, guiding them toward the safe haven of a public comportment predicated on making all a man does or wears “seem uncontrived and effortless.”
Naturally, sprezzatura is abused all the time in modern practice.
Think of a necktie deliberately knotted that slight bit wrong. Think of the absurdity of a half-tucked T-shirt. Think of shoes without laces or sneakers with suits. Think of the overwrought pocket square. The great cinematic icons would never have been caught dead betraying the amount of care that went into transforming, say, Paul Newman — a middle-class kid from suburban Shaker Heights, Ohio — into the quintessential sexy rebel or the archetypal cowboy of “Hud.”
“The personas stars created fulfilled a particular need of the times,” said G. Bruce Boyer, a men's wear expert and the author of the recently published “True Style.” “In ’30s stars, what was needed was an overt sex appeal and an extrovert personality necessary to cope with the Depression. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was expressions of rebellion against corporate consumerism, but safely and acceptably.”
It hardly matters that often the great style gods portraying rebels and adventurers and sportsmen were putting on a performance. What counts is that they kept us from noticing it all was an act.
“The best thing in style is a man who pulls off wearing a pair of jeans and a T-shirt perfectly,” Gert Jonkers, the co-editor of the influential men’s wear bible, Fantastic Man, said by phone from Amsterdam.. “That is almost the ambition everybody has. Every fashion designer you ever speak to says: ‘Oh, men shouldn’t wear fashion. Men should wear just jeans and a crew neck sweater.’ These style icons are the ones that did that first.”
And the gorgeously offhand photographs of them racing sports cars or riding motorcycles or popping open a beer were not necessarily the products of a candid camera. Almost all but the semi-nudes and stoner snapshots the photographer William Claxton took of his good friend Mr. McQueen were to some extent staged.
The photographic quality and rarity of those images adds to their potency and timelessness, Mr. Jonkers said. “It’s not like today’s celebrities, where there are so many bad images of them,” he said. “It’s great to look at Ryan Gosling until you see that picture of him running to the supermarket to get a carton of milk.”
Whenever men’s wear designers find themselves in need of inspiration,
they turn to the pantheon: Cary Grant, Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.
Though roughly 330 million deities populate the Hindu heavens, there are only a handful most people worship daily and know by name. Similarly, though there are about 330 billion images of celebrity divinities floating around the web empyrean at any given moment, when it comes down to it we seem inevitably to worship the same group of guys. This is meant in terms of style.
One hardly needs name them. Just utter the words “male style icon” and images inevitably form of celestial beings like Cary Grant, Paul Newman or Steve McQueen.
At least they do among that segment of the population that came of age before all manner of visual information was streamed directly onto the cerebral cortex by way of Instagram. That group would, of course, include most men’s wear designers, never in any case a culturally progressive group and less so when it comes to frame of reference — or, as image theft is often euphemized in fashion, “inspiration.”
“A lot of designers latch on to the same handful of guys,” the designer Michael Bastian noted recently, declining to point any fingers, both for diplomacy and because he himself has made frequent withdrawals from the familiar image bank. “It’s Steve McQueen, it’s Paul Newman, it’s Cary Grant and Fred Astaire, all done to utter death,” Mr. Bastian said.
Photo
Cary Grant (shown in Paris in 1956) helped define the term “fashion icon.” Credit RDA/Getty Images
It is probably worth pointing out that there are good reasons why the same small group of men continues to exert a disproportionate influence on what we here at Men’s Style think of as men’s style.
Not only were Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Cary Grant uncommonly handsome humans, they were also possessed of that certain ineffable quality we categorize as cool. They looked great in clothes seemingly no matter what they wore. In part, this was because they looked as if they gave clothes and fashion not a moment’s thought.
“Perhaps the first thing I learned about style was that if something makes you feel good, chances are you look good,” Remo Rufini — the 54-year-old Italian billionaire who made his fortune by restoring cool to Moncler, a fusty and largely forgotten ski-wear label — said during the recent New York Fashion Week. “I think what makes people ‘icons’ is the confidence they give off wearing whatever it is they love to wear.”
Advertisement
Continue reading the main story
Preternatural confidence is a signal quality of the male icons under discussion. And it is, to be sure, a highly limited group, lacking altogether in racial and social and gender diversity. “So few black leaders have been allowed to shine forth,” and find an enduring place in the style pantheon, said Horace D. Ballard Jr., an essayist on black style and curator of education at the Birmingham Museum of Art. “Where is Marvin Gaye or Paul Robeson?”
Photo
Marvin Gaye in 1970. His style has transcended generations but has been largely ignored by the fashion elite, according to Horace D. Ballard Jr., an essayist on African-American style. Credit Afro American Newspapers/Gado, via Getty Images
The available images of each of those men, no less than those of Newman, McQueen and Grant, convey a powerful sense of the difference between wearing one’s clothes and having them wear you. And in this they are all starkly unlike the dress-up dolls turned out in borrowed tuxedos at the Emmy Awards or any of the now ubiquitous and wholly purgatorial red carpet events.
Advertisement
Continue reading the main story
Advertisement
Continue reading the main story
“The distinction between then and now is this idea that celebrities, the supposed role models, tend to be styled,” Josh Sims, author of “Icons of Men’s Style,” said by telephone from London. “They have assistants and their look is a professional, very deliberate creation of a team.”
That is not to suggest that the male Hollywood stars of the last century were unconcerned about image, he added. It is well established that Steve McQueen required that his bluejeans were tailored in such a way that one of his favorite assets, his behind, was well accentuated.
The care McQueen took with his off-screen appearance was also mirrored in the stylish cut of the clothes he wore in some of the films that seem to play in an infinite rerun loop in the imaginations of many men’s wear designers — classics like “Bullitt” and “The Thomas Crowne Affair.”
“Even the khakis he wears in ‘The Great Escape’ were not in any way accurate to the period,” Mr. Sims said. Standard-issue trousers for members of the Allied forces during World War II would have been wide legged and with a high-waist, ample in the rear. “McQueen had his cut to a ’60s proportion” for the film, Mr. Sims said. “They were much slenderer and much more fitted than the traditional trouser cut.”
Photo
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The Italians have a handy term — sprezzatura — for sartorial gracefulness achieved through artful nonchalance. The concept behind sprezzatura was first codified by Baldessare Castiglione in his 1528 treatise, “The Book of the Courtier.” In it he steered young Renaissance gentlemen away from dangerous shoals of artifice and affectation, guiding them toward the safe haven of a public comportment predicated on making all a man does or wears “seem uncontrived and effortless.”
Naturally, sprezzatura is abused all the time in modern practice.
Think of a necktie deliberately knotted that slight bit wrong. Think of the absurdity of a half-tucked T-shirt. Think of shoes without laces or sneakers with suits. Think of the overwrought pocket square. The great cinematic icons would never have been caught dead betraying the amount of care that went into transforming, say, Paul Newman — a middle-class kid from suburban Shaker Heights, Ohio — into the quintessential sexy rebel or the archetypal cowboy of “Hud.”
“The personas stars created fulfilled a particular need of the times,” said G. Bruce Boyer, a men's wear expert and the author of the recently published “True Style.” “In ’30s stars, what was needed was an overt sex appeal and an extrovert personality necessary to cope with the Depression. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was expressions of rebellion against corporate consumerism, but safely and acceptably.”
It hardly matters that often the great style gods portraying rebels and adventurers and sportsmen were putting on a performance. What counts is that they kept us from noticing it all was an act.
“The best thing in style is a man who pulls off wearing a pair of jeans and a T-shirt perfectly,” Gert Jonkers, the co-editor of the influential men’s wear bible, Fantastic Man, said by phone from Amsterdam.. “That is almost the ambition everybody has. Every fashion designer you ever speak to says: ‘Oh, men shouldn’t wear fashion. Men should wear just jeans and a crew neck sweater.’ These style icons are the ones that did that first.”
And the gorgeously offhand photographs of them racing sports cars or riding motorcycles or popping open a beer were not necessarily the products of a candid camera. Almost all but the semi-nudes and stoner snapshots the photographer William Claxton took of his good friend Mr. McQueen were to some extent staged.
The photographic quality and rarity of those images adds to their potency and timelessness, Mr. Jonkers said. “It’s not like today’s celebrities, where there are so many bad images of them,” he said. “It’s great to look at Ryan Gosling until you see that picture of him running to the supermarket to get a carton of milk.”
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This wouldn’t be the first time that the elder President Bush would experiment with adventuresome hosiery; George H.W. has also been photographed sporting designs of lavender and orange and varying combinations of red, white, and blue. In that, he has been in good company. The statement sock—whether distinguished by a bright hue or a bold pattern or both at the same time—has become the go-to fashion accessory for guys from Wall Street, where “Friday socks” is a thing, to Silicon Valley, where every day is Friday. (Startup guys, according to one Bay Area buyer, favor not just colorful socks but also socks decorated with “words like ‘bacon’ and ‘beer’” and also “anything with ninjas.”)
Call it brosiery. Or man-gerie. Either way, it’s giving the tie and the pocket square a run for their money.
All of which helps to explain new sales numbers released today by the retail analytics firm NPD, revealing a 2-percent growth in sock sales between August 2013 and August 2014. That's a rate that has, in a weak economy, outpaced the general growth of the $206.7 billion global apparel market. And NPD speculates that it has been men, in particular, who have driven the increase. As Marshal Cohen, NPD’s chief industry analyst, explains it: “Over the past year, socks have become yet another outlet for expressing the extra splash of pattern and color they seek.”
* * *
The appeal of the statement sock—an answer, perhaps, to the statement jewelry that has long added versatility to women’s wardrobes—has contributed to a somewhat counterintuitive phenomenon: Last year, for the first time in more than a decade, the sales of men's apparel outpaced those for women. Driving the growth, according to the Wall Street Journal? “Double-digit gains in outerwear, pants, and socks.”
In part, to be sure, that increase has been due to sales of athletic socks. In part it’s been due to an increase in the average price of socks, which rose 24 percent between 2011 and 2013 (from $1.76 to $2.18 a pair, according to the NPD Group's Consumer Tracking Service). The other cause, though, has been less about socks as cushion and more about socks as fashion: the appeal of a flash of ankle peeking out from beneath the pant leg of an otherwise hum-drum suit. As the writer Josh Bearman explains it: “Socks are like lingerie for men. Only you know it’s there under your pants, but then when you walk, you give a little peek of what you’ve got on underneath.”
Call it Victor’s secret. Or, um, man-gerie. Or, um, brosiery. Regardless, it's giving the tie and the pocket square a run for their money when it comes to adding pizzazz to guys’ outfits. But the rise of the statement sock also makes you wonder: Why this? Why now? Why did it take so long for socks to become sassy?
* * *
One theory: Europe. Experimentation with gussied-up ankles, NPD’s Marshal Cohen told the Journal last year, started there, and then—like so many Windsor knots and slim-cut pants and spread-collar ginghams, migrated West to the States.
'The consumer-born trend sparked the whole idea of dressing the foot up.'
Another, complementary, theory: Nike. “Socks used to be a commodity part of the basketball business, but we developed a new innovative sock," the Nike executive Jayme Martin recently told a group of the company’s investors, referring to the Elite socks that Nike released in 2008 and issued in various colors and prints. At an average cost of $14 to $18 a pair, the Elites form a crucial component of Nike’s annual $100 million in sock sales. And that’s not just because they are, as barriers between shoe and skin, practical. "Kids aren't just wearing them on the courts,” Martin explained. “They are social currency."
That idea—that recognition that socks can be both commodity and currency—encouraged the company to see them, and sell them, as fashion accessories. As Cohen told the Journal: "What Nike Elite did was bring attention to the better-socks business. It's no longer just grabbing white socks out of the drawer. Now it's got to be this sock. The consumer-born trend sparked the whole idea of dressing the foot up."
Which wasn’t, of course, a wholly new idea. Almost since their invention, socks have doubled as decoration. The earliest versions were made of animal skins, gathered and tied around the wearers’ ankles; later versions—like those worn by the ancient Greeks and Romans—were made of matted animal fur. And socks have long been a kind of status symbol. By 1000 AD, socks—which are, given their shape, labor-intensive to produce—had become symbols of wealth among European nobility. They often included elaborate decorations.
???? A statement sock, made of cotton, from 12th-century Egypt (Wikimedia Commons)
Brosiery continues that tradition. “Socks are a way that I can stand out at work,” Roland Gonzales, who works in finance in New York, explains. “Everyone wears the same sort of conservative uniform,” he says. “This is a way to personalize my work wardrobe.” Rob Kardashian’s line of socks, which he sells at Neiman Marcus, feature messages like “Kiss Me” and “YOLO” on their soles. Sales for these all-too-literal of statement socks tripled in the first six months of business, a success Kardashian attributes to the fact that “everyone is wearing colorful socks.”
An added bonus: Statement socks are an easy and often inexpensive indulgence. Though high-end designs are certainly available (you can buy $185 socks at Barney’s, should your path in life lead to that), you can also buy the socks at stores like Forever 21 and Target, the latter of which says it "has seen a steady interest” in statement socks since introducing them in 2012.
Socks also have also, unsurprisingly, made their way to online retail, where services like Nice Laundry (“the Warby Parker of men’s socks”) sell packs of six pairs with names like "Chief," "Hot Shot," and "Prepster II" for $49 to $59, shipping included. "We make it very easy for you to refresh your entire sock drawer," Ricky Choi, Nice Laundry’s co-founder, told the New York Daily News.
Choi should know: His own sock drawer, he says, has more than 150 pairs
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This wouldn’t be the first time that the elder President Bush would experiment with adventuresome hosiery; George H.W. has also been photographed sporting designs of lavender and orange and varying combinations of red, white, and blue. In that, he has been in good company. The statement sock—whether distinguished by a bright hue or a bold pattern or both at the same time—has become the go-to fashion accessory for guys from Wall Street, where “Friday socks” is a thing, to Silicon Valley, where every day is Friday. (Startup guys, according to one Bay Area buyer, favor not just colorful socks but also socks decorated with “words like ‘bacon’ and ‘beer’” and also “anything with ninjas.”)
Call it brosiery. Or man-gerie. Either way, it’s giving the tie and the pocket square a run for their money.
All of which helps to explain new sales numbers released today by the retail analytics firm NPD, revealing a 2-percent growth in sock sales between August 2013 and August 2014. That's a rate that has, in a weak economy, outpaced the general growth of the $206.7 billion global apparel market. And NPD speculates that it has been men, in particular, who have driven the increase. As Marshal Cohen, NPD’s chief industry analyst, explains it: “Over the past year, socks have become yet another outlet for expressing the extra splash of pattern and color they seek.”
* * *
The appeal of the statement sock—an answer, perhaps, to the statement jewelry that has long added versatility to women’s wardrobes—has contributed to a somewhat counterintuitive phenomenon: Last year, for the first time in more than a decade, the sales of men's apparel outpaced those for women. Driving the growth, according to the Wall Street Journal? “Double-digit gains in outerwear, pants, and socks.”
In part, to be sure, that increase has been due to sales of athletic socks. In part it’s been due to an increase in the average price of socks, which rose 24 percent between 2011 and 2013 (from $1.76 to $2.18 a pair, according to the NPD Group's Consumer Tracking Service). The other cause, though, has been less about socks as cushion and more about socks as fashion: the appeal of a flash of ankle peeking out from beneath the pant leg of an otherwise hum-drum suit. As the writer Josh Bearman explains it: “Socks are like lingerie for men. Only you know it’s there under your pants, but then when you walk, you give a little peek of what you’ve got on underneath.”
Call it Victor’s secret. Or, um, man-gerie. Or, um, brosiery. Regardless, it's giving the tie and the pocket square a run for their money when it comes to adding pizzazz to guys’ outfits. But the rise of the statement sock also makes you wonder: Why this? Why now? Why did it take so long for socks to become sassy?
* * *
One theory: Europe. Experimentation with gussied-up ankles, NPD’s Marshal Cohen told the Journal last year, started there, and then—like so many Windsor knots and slim-cut pants and spread-collar ginghams, migrated West to the States.
'The consumer-born trend sparked the whole idea of dressing the foot up.'
Another, complementary, theory: Nike. “Socks used to be a commodity part of the basketball business, but we developed a new innovative sock," the Nike executive Jayme Martin recently told a group of the company’s investors, referring to the Elite socks that Nike released in 2008 and issued in various colors and prints. At an average cost of $14 to $18 a pair, the Elites form a crucial component of Nike’s annual $100 million in sock sales. And that’s not just because they are, as barriers between shoe and skin, practical. "Kids aren't just wearing them on the courts,” Martin explained. “They are social currency."
That idea—that recognition that socks can be both commodity and currency—encouraged the company to see them, and sell them, as fashion accessories. As Cohen told the Journal: "What Nike Elite did was bring attention to the better-socks business. It's no longer just grabbing white socks out of the drawer. Now it's got to be this sock. The consumer-born trend sparked the whole idea of dressing the foot up."
Which wasn’t, of course, a wholly new idea. Almost since their invention, socks have doubled as decoration. The earliest versions were made of animal skins, gathered and tied around the wearers’ ankles; later versions—like those worn by the ancient Greeks and Romans—were made of matted animal fur. And socks have long been a kind of status symbol. By 1000 AD, socks—which are, given their shape, labor-intensive to produce—had become symbols of wealth among European nobility. They often included elaborate decorations.
???? A statement sock, made of cotton, from 12th-century Egypt (Wikimedia Commons)
Brosiery continues that tradition. “Socks are a way that I can stand out at work,” Roland Gonzales, who works in finance in New York, explains. “Everyone wears the same sort of conservative uniform,” he says. “This is a way to personalize my work wardrobe.” Rob Kardashian’s line of socks, which he sells at Neiman Marcus, feature messages like “Kiss Me” and “YOLO” on their soles. Sales for these all-too-literal of statement socks tripled in the first six months of business, a success Kardashian attributes to the fact that “everyone is wearing colorful socks.”
An added bonus: Statement socks are an easy and often inexpensive indulgence. Though high-end designs are certainly available (you can buy $185 socks at Barney’s, should your path in life lead to that), you can also buy the socks at stores like Forever 21 and Target, the latter of which says it "has seen a steady interest” in statement socks since introducing them in 2012.
Socks also have also, unsurprisingly, made their way to online retail, where services like Nice Laundry (“the Warby Parker of men’s socks”) sell packs of six pairs with names like "Chief," "Hot Shot," and "Prepster II" for $49 to $59, shipping included. "We make it very easy for you to refresh your entire sock drawer," Ricky Choi, Nice Laundry’s co-founder, told the New York Daily News.
Choi should know: His own sock drawer, he says, has more than 150 pairs
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
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Thursday, May 7, 2015
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With lace-up sides and a Playboy bunny logo, this schoolgirl dress is fun and flirty, which is just making this costume suitable for you guys to wear in Halloween. White ribbon laces up each side of the waist, while a zippered back allows for easy changing, so this costume is special and unique, because you can see it is not regularly designed.
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Though one piece, the dress is made to look like a skirt and blouse. The blouse-like top is white with black edging, and the Playboy logo stands out on a faux pocket at the bust, which makes this whole schoolgirl costume so dedicated. A row of black buttons which is just what your man wants to unlock runs directly down the front of the shirt, and tiny cap sleeves which are so cute cover the shoulders. The skirt portion is short and pleated, and designed with a fun, pink, feminine plaid, the color pink is so cute and adorable. The suggestive look is finished with a matching collar and tie.
Friday, April 17, 2015
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