As hard as I tried to push the boyf (I should just calling him Style Salvage Steve seeing as he is a fully fledged blogger...I like boyf better tho...) into buying something obscenely expensive, wrecking havoc on his bank account as he did on mine yesterday... nothing, nada, natch... the age old problem of incorrect sizing, an issue more accute in menswear than womenswear.
Still, I wasn't about to give up and instead I shoved him onto TheCorner.Com, the menswear portal powered by Yoox.com and ended up surfing every single 'corner' of the site and on the way, oohed and aahed over things I'm personally partial too and would seriously consider buying, sizes permitting. Things like the Raf by Raf Simons grey sweatshirt which I have groped in person is a no-brainer... it's truly wonderful grey fleecing. Mens bags by the likes of Pauric Sweeney likewise are preferable to the female counterparts just because there's less 'sheeny-shiny bling bling' about them, thus making them more my kind of bag. Marc Jacobs' amusing white scribble shirt could be a funny take on the 'woman-in-a-mens-white-shirt'. I find myself taking fancy to the more decorative items that the boyf wouldn't touch with a bargepole, such as the Ann Demeulemeester floral trousers (still keen on a floral suit...). Mens shoes by Marsell and Opening Ceremony make me wish I had bigger feet or that they replicated their styles in womens' sizes. Finally, Raf Simons has had me touching up his swirly patterened boiled wool blazer for MONTHS now... everytime we're around a rail of Raf, there I am looking at it and wondering if the sizes come up small enough to wear as a fitted blazer and running my hands over a pattern in the most wonderful texturised boiled wool that makes most eyes blink-twice...
I have firmly instructed the boyf to take my wallet away from me...
