Esquire’s Big Black Book (F/W 2009 & S/S 2011) Was Suprisingly Decent

If you prefer to listen, the boys and I discuss this topic more “in depth” (if you can call it that) on the podcast proper. You can check it out below and skip to 28:16. Despite my desire to “participate” and “consume” more, the articles from menswear publications simply don’t interest me. Much of it has to with the subject matter, but the writing style also isn’t really my thing. This is likely not a surprise to any of you, but I don’t really read menswear magazines, be it physically printed or through the interwebs. It goes without saying that most of such content is rather banal, being geared toward the basics (menwear advice hasn’t really changed in a hundred years) or being so focused on celebrities, trends, and the Zeitgiest that I feel old and isolated in how woefully unaware I am in what’s is shaping culture; I guess my TikTok algorithm is too honed into comparing different takes on the highnote in “Music of The Night” (Norm Lewis’s opt-up is my current obsession). Of course,…