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blue-striped shirts
blue: maybe a pale sky blue or saturated and deep like the summer sky, sometimes a dull and buttoned-up cornflower, but rarely navy or royal shades, too dark and saturated to pair with baggy, pleated black slacks or khakis. The shirts are never fully buttoned though; instead worn open to the bottom of the sternum or over undershirts. Both A-line and tees work. The blues are happy and casual and should be worn in a happy, casual way as if snatched from a more formal wardrobe and smuggled into a more relaxed context. There are overtones of Abercrombie and Fitch. The shirts have a certain frattiness about them. They don’t usually have rips or holes or worn frayed edges. But they could, and it wouldn’t matter.
aviators with gold-tinted lenses
Pornographic like the San Fernando Valley. Pornographic like Boogie Nights. The orgy isn’t over merely shape-shifting. Studio 54 reincarnated itself via Tom Ford’s Gucci in the nineties. It’s reincarnating itself via Jack Innanen’s porn-stash today. Lenses in shades of acid yellow and brassy gold allow for lewd expressiveness. You can eye fuck someone in these. They are one of the few accessories that combine horniness and porniness in a compelling way. Perhaps this is why I frequently see them in Paris and Los Angeles, world capitals of horny and porny respectively.