Readers have been asking for our own queer how-to tie a bowtie video since dapperQ launched. In honor of the Butch Voices conference held recently in Oakland, we actually made it happen! Learn and laugh along with master teacher Ariel Speedwagon and grasshopper Lea Robinson. Don’t be fooled....

Avery Cassell dapperQ is pleased to welcome our newest contributor, Avery Cassell, who will regularly be offerinng transgressive DIY magic. Sometimes you need a little fashion pick-me-up, and clip-on bow ties are a quick way to add a suave retro touch to any butchly attire! Slip one in your back-pack,...

I have desk envy! I’ll admit it. They hired a new employee at my organization and she has transformed her office, which is directly across from mine, from a space that once resembled a cardboard box with stadium lighting into a dapper pad swankier than the Pegu Club (one of Rachel Maddow’s self proclaimed...

Ellen's dapper will not be upstaged by Portia! “You’re wearing THAT? I feel so…..so UNDERDRESSED!” These are dreaded words that your girl wishes never to hear again. Trust me! I have heard them on occasion from my partner, and from meaningless jokers who came before her. The second that such...

In How-To Style Your ‘Do (Part 1), Joseph was using a solid product called Toni and Guy “Bed Head.” In Part 2, he moved to Aveda’s Anti-Humectant Pomade. In this third and final segment, Joseph switches to a less pliable option: Murray’s Superior Hair Dressing Pomade.*  It’s the...

In How-To Style Your ‘Do (Part 1) Joseph was using a solid product called Toni and Guy “Bed Head.” In Part 2, he switches to Aveda’s BRILLIANT Anti-Humectant Pomade. (Haven’t you just been dying to rock some pomade?) Note the care with which he massages the product so...

If you are one of the very few lucky enough to have a dapperQ as your hair stylist, you may be comfortable asking questions about which hair products will give you maximum cool. The rest of us kinda make it up as we go along. Or learn from one another. Readers have been asking their old pal dapperQ...

I am friggin’ excited as heck to finally present our first how-to video!  In this episode, the kind and gorgeous Alaina guides the delightful and handsome Lauren through the process of garnering measurements that will enable dapperQ’s to much more confidently shop in the men’s department. I...

dapperQ Jess writes: “So summer’s almost here, and I’m the only one in Massachusetts who’s less than thrilled. I love winter, myself: layers, sweater vests, blazers. button-downs. It’s easier to accessorize, easier to hide my chest size, and easier to wear a binder without...

First off, I am going to be RAD NEWS when I get Photoshop (this is my first attempt at photo editing using Keynote.)   Gone will be the days of my having a limited wardrobe.  A distant memory of a butch invisibility in worldwide fashion. In this shot (which I practically did for Saks Fifth Avenue),...