If you dream of the right boot, you are in good company with dapperQ. Trendy may work in other areas of your wardrobe but boots, you know at a gut level, have to be classic. Unfortunately, you don’t often find the intersection of style and heft in women’s boots. Many of us make do with(…)
Backbacks may be brilliantly functional but they are also notoriously nerdy. Enter Alchemy Goods which has produced an array of sustainable, stylish options for those of us who gotta be hands free. My search requirements? Sturdy, waterproof, easy to sling on for regular rides in to the city over the Brooklyn Bridge. But I also(…)
Meet Jackie Rudin, a fixture on the NYC queer scene for decades. I had never met Jackie before but was struck dumb but her style while sprinting through Union Square. What I love most about her outfit is the fact that she is clearly pioneering her own path, as demonstrated by her re-appropriation a J.(…)
Mixing stripes, mixing patterns, mixing colors, we’ve touched on each in our five-part video series of how-to’s with Jahn Hall of Bklyn Dry Goods. In the fifth and final installment, Jahn describes what it takes to mix plaids with stripes. *Our model, Paris Harris, is active in Butch Voices. Find more on mixing plaids and(…)
Motorcycle jackets are iconic. Which is great if you are an icon. If you’re not, wearing one can easily veer in to cliché. As Jahn Hall of Bklyn Dry Goods makes clear in the fourth of our five-part video series: fashion delight arises when you mix surprising elements. In addition to pairing a great vintage(…)
QB1 makes the ladies swoon and vintage letter jackets can too. In the third of our five-part series of video fashion tips with Bklyn’s Dry Good’s Jahn Hall, Ariel Speedwagon sports the genial hometown jock look, which spiffed up our dapperQ of the Year’s trademark bowtie. It’s a look that Joshua Kissi and Travis Gumbs(…)
Really, is there any price too high to make your butt look good in jeans? When I founded dapperQ three years ago, I didn’t think so. I was writing about fashion day in and day out so I figured I better be willing to spend serious cash. As dapperQ’s first street fashion video shows, Diesel(…)
Last week, in the first of a five-part series, Jahn Hall of Brooklyn Dry Goods described a few of the principles that you can use to successfully match patterns. In this installment, he talks about mixing colors rather than matching them. He also takes dapperQ’s 2012 Miss Lez representative Leah Robinson further in to the(…)
Mixing and matching patterns — it’s neither for the faint of heart nor those not yet solidly familiar with the foundations of fashion. According to David Colman’s article in the New York Times entitled, “Men and Plaid Do Mix” these days more and more straight dudes are up for the challenge. But for Jahn(…)
Ag – it’s slang for “aggressives” and ever-so dapperQ. But did you know Ag also represents silver on the Periodic Table of Elements? If you identify as an Ag, or love someone who does, you’ll want to consider this handsomely weighted silver ring from a jeweler called itsnonmame. ‘Bout snapped my neck off when I(…)
