Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 50. Sunrise is 6:00 AM and sunset 7:45 PM for 13h 45m 21s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 61.3% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1876, the first National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia.…
Fashion
Cats, Fashion
Friday Catblogging: Cat Crashes Fashion Show
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Fashion, Trump, Unfit
Vulgar Outside, Disordered Inside
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Embed from Getty Images Robin Givhan wisely observes that Trump’s catastrophic fashion choices in England were not just a sign of bad taste: For any man to bungle white-tie dress — something so regimented, so steeped in tradition, so well-documented — he must be a man who doesn’t bother with the details, who doesn’t avail…
Cats, Fashion
Friday Catblogging: Cat on Catwalk
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Congress, Fashion
Good for Her
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Martha McSally, a member of Congress from Arizona (R-02), chose to wear a sleeveless dress and open-toed shoes while speaking on the House floor. It’s not, to be sure, the most consequential act of these times, but the rules against such attire are unnecessarily restrictive. She’s dressed ordinarily for an American woman in the summer,…
Architecture, Fashion, Mendacity, Television, Trump
How The Apprentice Manufactured Trump
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The first season of The Apprentice re-introduced Donald Trump to the world as an incredibly successful and intelligent businessman—it was a hit show in 2004 and boosted the Trump brand. The show was a major opportunity for producers to create his persona and sell his image to America. How did they pull this off? And…
Fashion, Poll
Friday Poll: A One-Piece Suit for Men?
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A One-Piece Business Suit? Here it comes – someone claims he’s designed a one-piece suit for men. John Jannuzzi writes that There’s a man out in San Francisco seeking funding for “The Suitsy,” a one-piece suit that thinks you’re just too lazy for a two-piece or three-piece option. It’s a shirt, jacket, and pants all…
Fashion, Libertarians, Presidential race 2012
A Libertarian’s Anti-Style as High Style
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At the Daily Beast, Isabel Wilkinson writes of Ron Paul’s clothes that In lopsided jackets many sizes too big, trousers so baggy they could pass as harem pants, and black orthopedic “referee” sneakers, Paul has distinguished himself during election season as the least sartorial of the bunch. He greeted Iowans last summer in a lime-green…