FASHIONNED

I have yet to meet a woman who doesn't like a man in a suit, and a man who likes wearing suits. How about if there was a way to compromise? Keetologue presents Fashionned: suit accessories.

picture from entirelysuits.comPocket squares
These pocket squares are kind of fun because they add a touch of class to any outfit. I would put a pocket square in a polo shirt, one of those t-shirts with the mini breast pockets, or a blouse. The best thing about them is that they're useful, especially since you can save the day of the really cute nerd in your stats class who has a cold. Just don't expect to get it back (If you do, don't clutch it to your heart or glue it in your planner, that's just gross.)

picture drawn by Teresa Winky Mak.Suspenders
Suspenders are hard to pull off unless you're insanely hot, and even then you have to get some kind of funny suspenders, with hearts or some kind of funky design on them. Otherwise, you might look like one of those little girls doing jazz routines on Tiny Talent Time, or one of those ABC Sitcom nerds who never realized that the other way to hold up your pants is with a belt.

Cummerbunds
Cummerbunds might be a little ridiculous for guys to wear because of the ostentatious colour selection, but for the ladies, if you add a cummerbund to a Diane Von Furstenburg-esque wrap shirt, you can make it look like a kimono!

Cufflinks and Tie Clips
If you have neither cuffs, nor ties, put them on a pants pocket, a neckerchief, or your handkerchief belt.

FASHUNNED

With the urging of friends to cover Uggs, fur-lined jackets and Von Dutch hats, I stand my ground and say "They are ugly, but not worth Fashunned coverage." Forward march.

Prude seafaring missionaries
A couple hundred years ago, people in Hawaii were living in relative peace, until a fellow by the name of Captain James Cook "discovered" Hawaii in 1778. In the early 1800s, missionaries from Boston came in bearing gifts of Christianity, tuberculosis, venereal disease, and terrible looking nightgowns. (I would have preferred frankincense and myrrh) Prior to the arrival of American missionaries, Polynesian women were living fancy-free, completely topless and wearing dresses and head pieces made of intricately patterned bark cloth. Shocked at this lack of "clothing", the missionaries forced the Polynesian women to wear their sleeveless nightgowns, beginning the Hawaiian association of rotund Polynesian women wearing loose fitting, cotton dresses.

this is some bark cloth.  nice pattern, huh?Mind you, bark cloth isn't particularly comfortable to wear, given that you're wearing a smooshed up log. Maybe it was even a blessing in disguise that muumuus came along. However, the introduction of cotton into Hawaii clearly led to the demise of bark cloth production and heralded the arrival of terribly unflattering dresses. Americans.

[As a side note, in the 1960s, both paper dresses (the daughter of bark cloth) and muumuus became very popular. Oh, the irony.]

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