This gentleman may just get my vote for best dressed chap in the world. I have featured this gentleman before on WASP 101 from pictures from the Sartorialist. I do not know his name, but I do know that these photos are taken at some flea market in New York. His ability to take the simplest items and mix and match them is magnificent. Bravo, old chap. If you are out there in the blogosphere, contact me. I would love to talk clothes with you.
Photo Credits: Mister Mort, Well Dressed Blog
24 comments:
thats not WASP, thats homeless
You know, if you are that stupid anonymous, I might as well give this blog up.
Is this Ted Stevens in disguise as a waspy middle school english teacher who fancies himself a dandy?
I bet that gentleman is (was?) in some kind of design field like interior design, architecture, etc.
His choice of colors is too unique for someone who is not familiar with design.
when readers who are more intelligent than you call you on your ignorance your only reply is "stupid" "screw you" "I don't care" "I dress for myself" "I impress myself"
It is clear that the real value in this blog is the intelligence of the readers not the intelligence of the blog "writer."
Though I only visit this blog to see how delusional "The Richard & Worthington Show" can get, I have to disagree with the first comment. Completely off the mark.
I am failing to see the correlation between anonymous being stupid and you giving the blog up. Can you please expand upon that? I'm on pins and needles to hear the reasoning.
While the shoes are not temperature appropriate, and the scarf is a tad bit off, its a commendable outfit. I would never wear it at my age, but certainly worthy of sartorial praise.
And thank you Richard for returning to posts on more WASP issues. Much appreciated.
Well Richie you might be able to learn something from this chap...the odds are he is not wearing anything by Ralph Lauren.
Richard,
I was so delighted to come upon a blog about WASPs. However, when I read through your posts, I discovered there was very little intellectual stimulation about the topic. Most seems superficial.
When are you going to start blogging about your topic?
Thank you and looking forward.
Richard:
The liberal usage of gentlemen is neither a statement of fact nor appropriate to the observation. The person in question is probably a pensioner and a skinflint justifying the entire outfit with an affected irreverence of deciding to play an amateur semiotician that morning in front of the mirror.
Though it must be said, he does not as yet appear to have a blog and shows a certain "old school" flair in accepting/eliciting comments and praise of the strangers on the subway, off duty cabbies and sanitation workers rather than the trolling beasties of the world wide web.
Richard, your admiration for him is wholly appropriate. It is my hope that you both should correspond and share insights. Perhaps he might teach that singular confidence to destroy ones own dignity.
The guy is an attorney in NYC. He's often snapped by the Sartorialist.
Richard,
Do you think the shoes are out of season? Seriously, is it a mistake to wear white bucks in winter?
I'm still new to all this.
Thanks!
Bill
Richard,
In time, when you learn what a WASP actually is (you're not there yet) you will trash your entire blog and start again. I promise you. Trust me. You will see that I am right. But you must first actually take the topic seriously and read books. READ BOOKS.
"Bill",
I am the anon who commented on the shoes. Unless your in the South, (and I mean classy south, think Charlottesville, VA), bucks in the winter are out. I think they can be worn at all other seasons, but even some consider that a stretch. And as to non-such,
I don't wish to offend you, but the man is not only an attorney, but a close acquaintance of mine. I'll say it as tactfully as possible: money is no object for this man. And while he is frequently photographed by the Sartorialist, he has dressed this way for a LONG time, and has always garnered the respect of those around him. So please don't group this man in a category oh "phony" with Richard.
Richard,
Just wondering if you have any photos to post from your weekend getaway in the Morgan yet?
Looking forward to seeing those photos!
Cheers!
Richard,
I have changed the name of my blog.
"Bill said...
Richard,
Do you think the shoes are out of season? Seriously, is it a mistake to wear white bucks in winter?
I'm still new to all this.
Thanks!
Bill"
Bill, I personally wouldn't. However, I'm the same person who still believes that Wellies are made for working and not a fashion statement. The point I'm making is this, wear what you will.
The Bucks are suede, aren't they? which would make them 'temperature appropriate', or spoken on white trash, layman's terms which seems to be what the rest of us are that aren't traditional wasp's, but I digress -
The shoes are appropriate for autumn/winter. My advice is to wear wellies when it snows.
And 'non-such' you crack me up. No, really, you do. You are the first to always cut down Richard or anyone else for being a 'wannabe' or 'too showy' when you are the worst offender.
You always make sure that everyone knows how smart you are with your affected vocabulary. Your need to feel so important and so much more intelligent than the rest of us goes against everything you claim to possess as a 'wasp.'
Instead you come across as sounding like you just got a new dictionary and you've been studying it from cover to cover.
And unlike the rest of anonymous posters, I'll sign my name...
Kathie T
Kathie,
You got one thing right - you are white trash.
Oh, and Richard, it's obvious when you post as an Anonymous poster. Your writing style and lack of punctuation skills makes it obvious. We are not as stupid as you are. Thank God.
Ms. Truitt
Perhaps you should read a dictionary from cover to cover, peruse a thesaurus, or consult the Elements of Style. Maybe this is an Orwellian instance of some people being more equal than others in regards to education. Quit with the sour grapes and go back to eating pork rinds in front of Fox News
K. Truitt:
It is not at all surprising that you would mount little more than a lexical critique. The simple reduction of my additions to this site says more about your own powers of observation than my writing. You have quite the habit for fallacious characterization, ascribing any number of your own mental inadequacies and crude straw men to my comments.
That my words somehow make this non_such sobriquet a wasp or even real entity is laughable. That there is any value in this non-space of a blog beyond pure entertainment is equally ridiculous.
I am afraid I cannot share your own enculturation in the willful disdain for book learnin' that only a back country rube could know.
I am very confident in who I am ((smiles)).
I am a professional writer and speaker, so yes, I do carry a dictionary and a thesaurus with me every day, but I am not so insecure with myself that I feel the need to 'show off' with pretentious language.
As far as the 'sour grapes' I don't know where that remark comes from, so I suppose I'd have to know exactly what the writer meant before I addressed it, which I probably won't anyway.
And as far as Pork Rinds in front of Fox News. Darlin', when I'm not an actual event in Washington DC, and I have the time to physically sit in front of the television, it's usually with a glass of White Wine. I don't snack after 6:00 - and it's definitely not pork rinds. That did give me a little chuckle, though, so thank you!
Kathie
THIS IS MY PHOTOGRAPH, PLEASE CREDIT
WWW.MISTERMORT.COM
"White Wine" is that with or without a spritzer!
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