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Idiotic Pride: The Uniforms of the East India Company

April 06, 2017

by Steve Gottschling.   Clothing designers never prepare you for the slow death of a season. Sure, every six months they fill stores with clothes of various lengths and thicknesses, but when their ...

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Take it as Red

November 01, 2016

by Steve Gottschling.   I have a suspicion. Just as the French entrust their language to a council of bookish elders, the Americans have one for the colors of their fabrics. And every time they hud...

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Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy, Oy Oy Oy

May 19, 2016

by Steve Gottschling.   The news of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne’s breakup last week came to me via one of those “trending links” at the corner of my Facebook homepage, the ones that, when clicked, bre...

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Alone with Style

April 28, 2016

by Steve Gottschling.    You know what would be great? If the key to fixing adult life’s nagging loneliness had nothing to do with actual people. And I don’t mean drilling your mind Sarah Palin-sty...

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What to Wear to: The Star Wars Premiere

December 17, 2015

by Steve Gottschling.   We men love to dress our fictional characters in long flowy garments, a curious fascination considering the near absence of flow in the clothes available to us in stores. St...

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