Does the following pretty much sum up your experiences with shopping for dress shirts? Sigh. Join the club. Troubleshooting fit issues has been one of dapperQ’s goals since our humble beginnings. Since 2010, we have received countless reader e-mails imploring us to help with finding real solutions to the above listed problems. A few years(…)
Our March He Said/We Said featured our first ever West Coast (Bay Area) edition of He Said/We Said. Not to be outdone, Jack Tar 207, a Portland, Maine based style blog, took on the HS/WS challenge for our annual Pride edition and did not disappoint with their ever-so-handsome interpretations of the J-Crew Spring 2013 menswear(…)
So, what happens when bow-ties and neckties aren’t your thing? What other options exist when you want to give your collar a bit of dapper flare? That’s the predicament my girl is currently in. I’m originally from New Mexico, and from what I’ve seen, bolos can get real over-the-top-Santa-Fe-touristy real quick. Hence, it never occurred(…)
Last week, ESPN featured an amazingly inspiring feature on WNBA star Brittney Griner that includes video documenting her response to “the most creative negative comment she has received on social media,” her story about coming into her own, and a slideshow showcasing some of her oh-so-swag dapper style, including these photos: via ESPN Griner told(…)
A reader asks: Summertime calls for shorts and 2013 calls for shorter shorts. I’m a big fan of Chubbie’s Shorts with a 7″ inseam, but the leg opening is as wide as a parachute on me. Any other men’s brands that carry shorter shorts? Men’s short shorts are indeed back with a vengeance and here(…)
Inspired by “Black Dandies Fashion New Academic Identities,” our new series “Dress Smart” will be featuring masculine-of-center genderqueer and transmasculine dapperQ professionals and academics who, through their personal style, are fearlessly challenging traditional expectations about gender and sexuality. “‘Stylin’ out.’ That’s how Monica L. Miller, an associate professor of English at Barnard College, describes the(…)
Feature image via Style Lesbia dapperQ is tipping our top-hats to all of the tomboy femmes out there. While our mission remains the same, we understand that gender identity and presentation falls along a large spectrum – not just binary “hyper masculine” and “high femme.” There are many interpretations of masculine style within our community.(…)
Inspired by “Black Dandies Fashion New Academic Identities,” our new series “Dress Smart” will be featuring masculine-of-center genderqueer and transmasculine dapperQ professionals and academics who, through their personal style, are fearlessly challenging traditional expectations about gender and sexuality. “‘Stylin’ out.’ That’s how Monica L. Miller, an associate professor of English at Barnard College, describes the(…)
*Feature image by Jack Montgomery via Goldie Peacock One of our favorite dapperQs, “genre-crossing, genderblending movement artist” Goldie Peacock, is cooking up some drag king realness this Sunday at their Drag King Workshop and we highly recommend that you come by and take down some recipes. Photo by Stacie Joy via Goldie Peacock Here are(…)
You know it. You love it. It’s Seven Days of Dapper, back this time with a special treat for you: the dashing Maine stylings of T Sweatt. Here are T’s stats: T. Sweatt, originally from Connecticut and now a Maine import, has been summering in Maine her entire life. After college, the Maine coast and(…)
