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(…)
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(…)
For years I have had a love/hate relationship with my girls. I call them my girls, not my breasts, and definitely not my tits. It all started after college when they continued to grow and grow, making me feel weighed down and completely out of proportion. With every small pound gained or lost it seemed(…)
I once rolled around with Miley Cyrus on the sandy beaches of Fire Island. As one could imagine, this drew a great deal of positive attention from the fierce, fabulous, and fashionable Pine’s boys as they strutted past me down the catwalk on the shores. While I received many nods of approval, that day was(…)
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. It’ simple but it’s not easy. Every(…)
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 bargain product of the trio: made mostly(…)
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 thoroughly in to Nancy’s hair. You can’t(…)
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(…)