#guy trebay

[lifejustgotawkward]

“Back in the sexual Stone Age, it was assumed that straight men were so genetically overheated that Mother Nature hard-wired them to gawp at images of bare-naked ladies. Women, on the other hand, were her empathic creations: nurturing, maternal, their libidinal thermostats permanently set to low cool.

If a hunk of man-flesh suddenly came into view, a woman’s gaze was expected to rest some place well north of the belt buckle. What a woman was considered to want most from a man — in ancient times before Tinder and rampant sexting — was to gaze soulfully into his eyes.

Burt Reynolds changed all that with one hairy-chested centerfold.”

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[ripplefactor]

‘It amuses more than annoys me that “Do Not Disturb” is a universally empty injunction. (In places like India, in fact, it is usually interpreted to mean: “Please enter immediately and bring every person you have ever met.”)’ Guy Trebay, ‘My Life in Hotels’, December 1, 2011 ..

[nate-sims]

[dreowyn]

Designer Obana showcases new line of homeless menswear

Designer Obana showcases new line of homeless menswear

Sam Reed reports for Pret-a-Porter that Daisuke Obana, designer of Japanese menswear label N. Hoolywood, sparked quite the debate on Feb. 1, 2017 with his homeless youth-inspired fall 2017 collection at New York Men’s Fashion Week. Some critics, as well as homeless advocates, call the collection, “tasteless,” “tone-deaf” and “insensitive”. As an example, Fashionista‘s Steve Dool wrote in his…

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[turnoverchange]

The New York Times’ Guy Trebay has a nice insight into the role - or lack thereof - that sound plays in contemporary men’s dress habits:

“Zola, among others, lavished sensual descriptions upon the sounds made by clothing — the swish of a silk skirt, the fallen-leaves rustle of a woman’s crinolines trailing across parquet. Somehow, in an age of stretch fabrics and sneakers, this aspect of dress got lost.

Stomping around in a pair of Mr. Browne’s heavy-soled wingtips brought it back for me. The trigger was Mr. Browne’s custom of adding metal taps to his shoes, on both toe and heel.

And while it’s true that Harrison — a friend’s poodle, with an Upper East Side blow-out — garnered most of the notice as we crossed Fifth Avenue, I was conscious of the way Mr. Browne’s shoes rendered it impossible for me to walk the pavement unheard or unobserved.”

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Wish you were here - postcards from the edges of another place and time

Wish you were here – postcards from the edges of another place and time

Image © Helen Jones-Florio, Loch Lomond, Scotland

  I once read an interesting travel article by a writer, Guy Trebay, about how he still sends postcards from wherever his travels take him to. I say ‘still’ because it does seem, at least for the vast majority of people I know, as if the action of putting pen to paper (or card) and writing ‘wish you were here’ is most definitely a thing of the…

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[nothingandeverything]

getting dressed every day is an existential act, an opportunity to compose oneself anew every morning...

- guy trebay in this article about nick wooster

[bookofwriting]

"I always liked working within limits. [. . .] You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework — an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale — you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world."

— Irving Harper, in Undercover Icon by Guy Trebay