boys in blazers

boys! in blazers!

zeke and the fish.

pedro in blazer, joey in flannel, owning the dance floor.

afro, blazer, vest, perfect purple tie: pedro.

new apartment

we had a lot of decorating parties during winter term.

the dining room has orange walls, into which we pounded nails to hang things. and curtis has a good omnipresent hat.

hmmm...leaning across the top of the staircase? nice tie.

winterseve

in the two seconds that i was home over winter break, i managed to throw a tea party.

 

alexjandra doing her usual tomboy thing with aplomb.

  

chris, focused on music as usual. plaid all around.

 

winds

a traveling buddy, on the way to xi'an, hometown of the terra cotta warriors:

we biked around the wide top of the city wall. look at all that grey! oh, i love it.

shanghaied

, some shots from a trip to shanghai this fall...

it's surreal that i took this with my own camera:

at yuyuan bazaar. i'm wearing a scarf from suzhou. my cloisonne bracelet provides that essential little orientalist touch.

everyone's favorite japanese-h+m-type-thing on nanjing road, shanghai's actually charming hypercapitalist pedestrian street, which is similar to the more soulless wangfujing in beijing.

taking in the afternoon:

bar rouge, on the bund. some bits of shanghai were a little too shanghai for me, and the clubs fell into this category: compared to beijing, things were often too shiny, too westernized, too populated by expats--not beijing-y expats (NGO people, students, diplomats, artists), but really stereotypical expats (english-only, business, finance, real estate).

great big wall in china

continuing the trend of anachronistic posts, here is the second of my three visits to the great wall. my friends and i hiked from jinshanling (my favorite site on the wall) to simatai--hours out in the sun, and so beautiful.

look at that sky! (not to mention bradford's grin and sweet t-shirt)

descending stairs in a guardhouse in style. the shirt is one of those tees with nonsense english on it that is ubiquitous in china.

 

mimi, styling an american flag sweatshirt and ray-bans, against an incredible vista.

there was a great breeze coming in the windows of every guardhouse.

 

miaofengshan

we visited a huge number of temples in china this fall. here's the hike up to miaofengshan temple.

i love jimin's outfit. in the left of the photo.

at that point, we were still enjoying the gorgeous fall weather...we hiked all the way up to the buildings on top of that mountain!

 

 

a favorite chinese scarf, bought at the dongwuyuanr (beijing zoo) clothes market for 15 or 20 kuai, which translates to less than 3 american bucks.

old beijing

i am back in the usa after fall abroad, and i still have a ton of photos to catch up on! below are some shots from around beijing.

allison surveying the west beijing sunset from our building.

mid-autumn festival tea on the lake in purple bamboo park, haidian district.

 

 

at propaganda, wudaokou.

 

 

bradford using my windowsill correctly.

 

bradford

here are a bunch of glimpses of bradford. his clothes always have a perfect fit and strong colors, and are never fussy.

modelesque at the lama temple/yonghegong and the nearby confucius temple. love the sneakers. this is how guys should deal with warm weather.

relaxing at our local park on national day.

in the process of peeling a pomelo, one of a billion fruits available at our nearby market and at stands on the street. allison's excellent dressy skirt/orange slipper combo also made it into the photo...pure essence of college.

front gate

a trip to chic, old-beijing qianmen, south of tiananmen on the solid north-south axis of the central city. "front gate." brian, klang, and allison all in collared shirts...

red lanterns, grey beijing

that go-go swing

chuck brown is the man behind the beginnings of go-go, which is dc's best music: a combination of funk and rock (and, more recently, hip-hop), with lots and lots of percussion. i went to see him at the 9:30 club a few weeks ago and was in the front row. he is 73 years old and he still dresses sharp, plays hard, and makes ridiculously good dance music.

his brass section also looked great.

youth youth youth

here's my lovely lady g's prom scene from a few months ago...very rock and roll. photos courtesy of georgia.

look at that attitude.


cat fun? + classy shoes.


gotta love those dc azaleas. what a color palette!

the best look in the world

i am back from an excellent spring break! i was camping, so there wasn't much going on in terms of style beyond not showering and wearing the same clothes the whole time...but just in time for april fool's day, check out the best look in the world.

double camel coat

oliver, 20, at university.
hello, he's wearing a bow tie AND a double-breasted coat. refreshing.

the sartorialist has been picking up on this stuff at the source.

twenties ball 3

leland, before the twenties ball.
i love the tie color and the fit of the suit, plus leland's got his pose down.

twenties ball

there was a 1920s-themed ball in our building last weekend. there were moments while i was at the ball in which i looked around and didn't see one clue that it was 2009. people looked flawless.

dupont circle

it was warm enough today that i got to go wander around dupont circle in washington, dc with my coat open and no hat or gloves.

annalisa, 18, previously featured, near dupont circle.
she is wearing the same boots she had on in her last picture.
the scarf cinches the deal for me.


dani, 31, at dupont.
this is how i desperately wanted to dress before i went away to college, and i don't manage to do it often enough. why shouldn't we all dress up like this to go to school or work?


matthew, at dupont.
again with the scarves on men...i'm a little obsessed.


this is me, also hanging out near dupont.
i'm wearing my favorite sweater and my all-time favorite scarf. the scarf is chinese and is so enormous that it is basically a textile blanket. i wear it so much that i worry that it will eventually quit on me and start to come apart. i'm wearing my pleasantly grungy boots (similar to eddie's a number of posts ago) which i got from a friend years ago.