Our friends over at Autostraddle sent us the following question from one of their readers: Little boys’ t-shirts with pictures of dragons riding on motorcycles: cute or trying too hard? First let me say that dapperQ does not participate in any shaming or fashion policing. We do offer suggestions...

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...

Have you ever walked into a store and tried on a pair of jeans that you adored, and then freaked out when you saw the price tag?  Welcome to my world.  Hey, I know it’s a recession and all, but some of us are just broke.  Come on people, who has 100 bucks to buy jeans on a social worker’s...

There you are, fresh out of the shower, standing in front of the disaster that is your fat a** closet. You try to make sense of what to wear. You dig, and scrounge, and pull out wrinkled garments. Where is that god forsaken blazer, anyway? Frustration sets in, and it becomes painfully clear what has...

This post isn’t about American suit maker Adrian Jules’ glorious new Town and Country line debuting in better stores this fall as reported in Robb Report: The Global Luxury Source. If you’ve got the bones for this stuff, you don’t need advice from your old pal dapperQ. But...

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...

Here’s a great inquiry about femming dapperQ style – thanks K! – to which I asked my wife Shannon to respond first, in hopes that others will follow their lead… So i just recently found out about dapperQ and I have to say– I’m swooning. I love the profiles of dapperQ’s….it’s...

She’s not known to hold her tongue when it comes to calling the cranksters on their crap.  But as the photo to the left demonstrates, Rachel does know how to button it up when it comes to sporting a tie. She is undeniably dapperQ.  But I’d like to suggest that this one anti-establishment,...

Transgressing the Flannel – Wearing Bulldagger – I challenge you to think of a category of persons more stereotypically considered unfashionable than butch lesbians. From Birkenstocks to baseball caps to omnipresent flannel, no one suspects any surprises. Of course, one of the main ways...

trans·gress // (trns-grs, trnz-) 1. To go beyond or over (a limit or boundary); exceed or overstep: “to make sure that her characters didn’t transgress the parameters of ordinariness” (Ron Rosenbaum). 2. To act in violation of (the law, for example). By “transgressing men’s...