Posts

Showing posts from January, 2019

The Best Underwear For The Outdoors? A Speedo

Image
The Best Underwear For The Outdoors? A Speedo Speedos are made from spandex. As you're undoubtedly aware, that material is hugely stretchy, very strong, breathes reasonably well, and dries out almost instantaneously. January 31, 2019 at 03:16PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2CXnVcX

Zara’s New Logo May Be The Future Of Branding, Love It Or Hate It

Image
Zara’s New Logo May Be The Future Of Branding, Love It Or Hate It The controversial design reflects the evolution of fashion branding. But would it have killed Zara to add just a little more space between the letters? January 31, 2019 at 07:59AM via Digg http://bit.ly/2BdezJV

Fashion Whisperer John Mayer Talks Through His Style Philosophy

Image
Fashion Whisperer John Mayer Talks Through His Style Philosophy Musician John Mayer has a deep closet and a wild sense of style. With GQ, he breaks down his point system for devising new, crazy and cool outfits. January 30, 2019 at 02:34PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2MFwgq8

A Tourbillon Ups The Value Of A Watch Exponentially. So What Is It?

Image
A Tourbillon Ups The Value Of A Watch Exponentially. So What Is It? The ultra-complicated part was originally built to fight gravity. Now, it's extremely valuable proof a watch is special. January 30, 2019 at 12:54PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2FWL2Z3

The Mother Of Streetwear

Image
The Mother Of Streetwear OG Ma's Unique Hype Collection is outfitting hypebeasts around the world. January 30, 2019 at 11:45AM via Digg http://bit.ly/2To5fKf

Why I Had My Teeth Filed Into Fangs

Image
Why I Had My Teeth Filed Into Fangs Dazed talk to London-based filmmaker Tessa Edwards about big canines and obscure beauty trends. January 29, 2019 at 11:25AM via Digg http://bit.ly/2ScpsW5

Even Alpacas Know That Crocs Are An Abomination

Image
Even Alpacas Know That Crocs Are An Abomination While it's easy to take aim at crocs — just like it's easy to take aim at Guy Fieri or Nickleback — we think you should ignore the haters (even the furry ones) and do you, Croc wearers. January 28, 2019 at 10:53AM via Digg http://bit.ly/2RmrL4s

The MAGA Hat Is Still An Object Of Hate

Image
The MAGA Hat Is Still An Object Of Hate Conservative commentators want us to believe that the hat is just any other piece of meaningless apparel. They're wrong. January 27, 2019 at 10:52AM via Digg http://bit.ly/2RezEZV

The Oral History Of The First $100 Skate Shoe

Image
The Oral History Of The First $100 Skate Shoe Quartersnacks tracked down the principal figures behind the first three-figure skate shoe, released in 1997, and got their story on what was as much of an anomaly as it was a watershed moment for skateboarding as a cultural phenomenon, and style of footwear design. January 23, 2019 at 01:43PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2T9l5IF

Inside The Oddly Satisfying World Of ASMR Beauty

Image
Inside The Oddly Satisfying World Of ASMR Beauty If you're into watching videos of lipsticks being sliced up, this one's for you. January 21, 2019 at 03:31PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2T6zNQK

This Watch Costs $400,000 Because The Rich Are Too Rich

Image
This Watch Costs $400,000 Because The Rich Are Too Rich Why send multiple kids to college or buy a nice home when you can keep track of time so freakin' well. January 21, 2019 at 08:58AM via Digg http://bit.ly/2MlbvzP

How A Tiny, Red Male Thong Changed Pro Bodybuilding Forever

Image
How A Tiny, Red Male Thong Changed Pro Bodybuilding Forever "Striated glutes are now a marker for appropriate leanness. In effect, smaller posing trunks marked an evolution in the sport itself." January 21, 2019 at 08:58AM via Digg http://bit.ly/2sFxoRA

The 'Marie Kondo Effect' Comes At A Weird Time For Thrift Stores

Image
The 'Marie Kondo Effect' Comes At A Weird Time For Thrift Stores Netflix's hit show has everyone tidying up, but that's not the only reason second-hand stores are being flooded with donations. January 19, 2019 at 12:04PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2FDrRDF

NBA Player Tries To Check Into Game Wearing The Wrong Color Shorts

Image
NBA Player Tries To Check Into Game Wearing The Wrong Color Shorts They say Steve Jobs wore the same thing every day in order to avoid having to spend energy making a decision on what to wear. Michael Beasley apparently never got the memo. January 18, 2019 at 10:27AM via Digg http://bit.ly/2CtauBq

Jason Segel in ‘I Love You, Man’ Invented Fashion

Image
Jason Segel in ‘I Love You, Man’ Invented Fashion Before sleazecore went mainstream, there was the iconic board-shorts-and-Uggs 'fit. January 18, 2019 at 10:04AM via Digg http://bit.ly/2DgDNsw

This Six-Year-Old Hairdresser Looks Like He's Been Styling Hair For A Very Long Time

Image
This Six-Year-Old Hairdresser Looks Like He's Been Styling Hair For A Very Long Time Jiang Hongqi from Suining, China, grew up learning the trade from his parents. Now at the ripe age of six, he's already an expert. January 17, 2019 at 04:19PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2QSJBvT

Real Fur Is Bad For Animals. Fake Fur Is Bad For The Earth. What the Hell Do We Do Now?

Image
Real Fur Is Bad For Animals. Fake Fur Is Bad For The Earth. What the Hell Do We Do Now? A new breed of material makers is creating the fabrics we'll all be wearing in 10 years. January 17, 2019 at 02:22PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2HrXVf4

This Woman Is The Queen Of Ridiculous And Magnificent Hair Styling

Image
This Woman Is The Queen Of Ridiculous And Magnificent Hair Styling To make this all the more impressive, she doesn't use a single drop of hair spray. January 17, 2019 at 12:42PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2RCONJD

How a Womenswear Designer Made the Fleece Every Guy Wants

Image
How a Womenswear Designer Made the Fleece Every Guy Wants From the backs of Chinatown grandmas to dudes everywhere. January 17, 2019 at 09:06AM via Digg http://bit.ly/2DfUMLD

This Rent The Runway Coat Is 'Unnerving' Men Everywhere

Image
This Rent The Runway Coat Is 'Unnerving' Men Everywhere "My husband did not like this coat. He said 'I'm not supposed to like it. I'm supposed to notice it,'" a shopper named Drue wrote in November 2018. "He doesn't understand fashion," she added. January 16, 2019 at 09:39PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2W0gCdo

Hands-on with Nike’s self-lacing, app-controlled sneaker of the future

Image
Hands-on with Nike’s self-lacing, app-controlled sneaker of the future The Adapt BB — the BB stands for "basketball" — build on Nike's decades-long dream to create an auto-lacing smart shoe that adapts to wearers' feet. The company wants to fundamentally change footwear and, of course, sell more shoes. January 15, 2019 at 09:54AM via Digg http://bit.ly/2FtEXmS

Is This How People Will Get Their Nails Done In The Future?

Image
Is This How People Will Get Their Nails Done In The Future? Nail printers might be the way we pamper ourselves someday soon, as this short video demonstrates. January 15, 2019 at 10:49AM via Digg http://bit.ly/2RuS0dR

How Fast Fashion Companies Dupe You Into Buying More Stuff

Image
How Fast Fashion Companies Dupe You Into Buying More Stuff Fast fashion is one of the largest industries in the world and it's growing, but perhaps that's not such a good thing. January 13, 2019 at 06:15AM via Digg http://bit.ly/2D65PXF

Hockey Players Have Big Butts, And They Cannot Lie

Image
Hockey Players Have Big Butts, And They Cannot Lie "There's definitely some pants I can't really fit into," says reigning league MVP Taylor Hall of the Devils. "Some shorts that maybe fit my waist but don't fit the other parts. It's a challenge." January 10, 2019 at 07:40PM via Digg https://es.pn/2ABWuoE

Skinned

Image
Skinned Next year's fashion is putting yourself in someone else's skin. Literally. January 10, 2019 at 05:23PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2CcMRgb

How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution

Image
How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution The extravagant splendor of the animal kingdom can't be explained by natural selection alone — so how did it come to be? January 9, 2019 at 05:34PM via Digg https://nyti.ms/2H3iazD

A History Of Dark Fashion

Image
A History Of Dark Fashion Like red wine rather than white, it can suggest sophistication, even opulence; like the darks of professional makeup — the art of smoky defining shadows and dark lipstick — it can obscure what we find less appealing and hint at mysterious qualities that a scrubbed-clean face couldn't hope to inspire. January 6, 2019 at 11:54AM via Digg http://bit.ly/2R5zwRb

Avon Ladies Are Still Calling, And A Lot Of Them Are Speaking Spanish

Image
Avon Ladies Are Still Calling, And A Lot Of Them Are Speaking Spanish Latina sellers have become Avon's not-so-secret weapon as the beauty sales empire works to reinvent itself in the US. But is the company doing enough to support them? January 5, 2019 at 01:10PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2sd4F64

How To Finally (Maybe) Stop Slouching

Image
How To Finally (Maybe) Stop Slouching Hunching over (the computer, usually) puts a painful strain on our shoulders and backs, it keeps us from breathing as deeply as we could, and it puts "stress on the ligaments holding the joints of the spine together." Plus it makes us look like the lady who gave Sleeping Beauty a poison apple. January 4, 2019 at 05:55PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2ApAXQ3

The Unlikely Tale Of A $100 Amazon Coat That's Taken Over The Upper East Side

Image
The Unlikely Tale Of A $100 Amazon Coat That's Taken Over The Upper East Side The coat is fairly plain: paneled, olive green, and made by a company called Orolay, a Chinese brand that also, curiously, makes folding chairs, storage cabinets and wall-mounted tables. January 4, 2019 at 01:19PM via Digg https://nym.ag/2Vv7DAw

Why Gout Is Making A Comeback

Image
Why Gout Is Making A Comeback Our current fascination with the disease, at least in part, has to be a symptom of the world we're living in right now. January 2, 2019 at 06:23PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2BVonYB

Year Of The Daddy

Image
Year Of The Daddy 2018 delivered turmoil and thirst in equal measure. January 1, 2019 at 02:54PM via Digg https://nyti.ms/2RtaJ94