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  • Khaki: Cut From the Original Cloth

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    “In these pages, khakis dance, serve correctness, relax, and, most of all, make us feel like they and we belong. These images feel so good you almost want to touch them, like the tactile satisfaction of a most favored pair of worn khakis.”

    —Richard Martin

    Chinos are at the bedrock of the prep-set wardrobe, and culture, for that matter. Seven to eight pair, in a scad of hues, are crammed into my chest at any given time. I know gentlemen that have literally never owned any other pant. From prep school to business casual, chinos all they’ve known and all they care to know. Khaki: Cut from the Original Cloth pays tribute to the ongoing love affair numerous American subcultures, including preppies, have with chinos. Everyone from Einstein to the Kennedy brothers to Pablo Picasso to fighter pilots live on in earthy black and white photographs by the likes of Annie Leibovitz, Linda McCartney, and Henri Cartier-Bresson to name just a few. Save an introductory essay, the book conveys a touching history on the merits of photographs alone. The result feels as good, if not better than, that perfect pair.

    Sep 2, 2011 | Permalink (7) View/Leave Comments

    elle & em left a comment on 9/6/2011 at 8:20 PM:

    We can’t wait to break out our khaki pants for fall!


    patgig left a comment on 9/6/2011 at 11:48 AM:

    That’s Dirk Bogarde in the photo. Interesting man.


    COOL SQUARE left a comment on 9/6/2011 at 8:00 AM:

    NICE SHOOT!

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    Laguna Beach Fogey left a comment on 9/6/2011 at 12:49 AM:

    I’m looking forward to the follow-up volumes: Flannel, Worsted, and Corduroy.

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    stockton andrews II left a comment on 9/5/2011 at 7:20 PM:

    I’m partial to the British shade myself.


    Jason left a comment on 9/5/2011 at 1:47 PM:

    I live in chinos.  Khaki, navy, go-to-hell of various ilks.  I have one pair of jeans that I wear occasionally, but other than that it’s chinos for me.


    Desmond K left a comment on 9/5/2011 at 6:15 AM:

    A pair of great fitting chinos are appropriate for every occasion except a fall/winter wedding in my opinion.


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  • September 2011 Playlist

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    Sep 1, 2011 | Permalink (13) View/Leave Comments

    Alexis left a comment on 10/3/2011 at 1:28 PM:

    It won’t download…any suggestions? I have a mac.


    Will left a comment on 9/6/2011 at 8:40 PM:

    Saw the Maccabees in London back in 2009 - best show I’ve ever seen. And a little unknown band called Mumford & Sons opened!!


    raquel left a comment on 9/5/2011 at 12:34 AM:

    Fantastic! Love the jon fratelli song… absolutely love him.


    Donovan left a comment on 9/4/2011 at 10:16 PM:

    @bstark Thank you! I used winstar and it worked beautifully.


    Brian left a comment on 9/4/2011 at 5:06 PM:

    Great playlist Fred!  Thanks


    bstark left a comment on 9/4/2011 at 1:57 PM:

    I had no problem extracting the files with winrar on a PC.


    T.K left a comment on 9/4/2011 at 10:33 AM:

    Im having the same issue as DPD - how can I get the playlist on a PC?


    Joey Dee left a comment on 9/4/2011 at 9:35 AM:

    Great collection!


    DPD left a comment on 9/4/2011 at 3:08 AM:

    Must I have a Mac in order to open this .zip file once downloaded? If not, what program for PC will open it? Thank you.


    Karoline left a comment on 9/3/2011 at 11:21 PM:

    this is looking like such a good mix!  Thanks! :) So pumped that early Rooney+the Beach Boys are both on here!


    Joy left a comment on 9/3/2011 at 10:25 PM:

    The only reason why I am excited for a new month every time.


    Jason left a comment on 9/3/2011 at 8:56 PM:

    I love me some friendly fires. Good choice.


    david left a comment on 9/3/2011 at 8:23 PM:

    Nice! Thanks!


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  • Hamptons Gardens

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    Your coffee table needs this book like New York needs Central Park. Hamptons Gardens is an invitation into the private world of one of the most exclusive residential areas hidden behind Privet hedges and wrought iron gates. Author and Hamptons-insider Jack de Lashment, in collaboration with photographers Doug Young and Mary Ellen Bartley, takes you behind the garden gates of the Hamptons’ most heart-stirring private gardens. You can pick up this substantial 11” x 14” hardcover edition from Assouline. After flipping through pages of avant-garde creations by the likes of Edwina von Gal, Miranda Brooks, and Oehme van Sweden, you may just develop a green thumb yourself.

    "This garden, as it now stands, is the tangible record of a quest, a story written in gardener's code."

    —Jack de Lashmet

    Aug 23, 2011 | Permalink (2) View/Leave Comments

    OldGeorgetowner left a comment on 8/29/2011 at 9:01 AM:

    Just checked Amazon.com.  Not a bad price at $100.00, sounds fantastic.


    chris vargas left a comment on 8/27/2011 at 1:45 PM:

    love the layout and concept. thanks for the awesome representation.


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  • August 2011 Playlist

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    Aug 1, 2011 | Permalink (6) View/Leave Comments

    HJG left a comment on 8/31/2011 at 11:33 AM:

    Great playlist!


    TRAVIS left a comment on 8/4/2011 at 2:49 PM:

    Thanks for another great playlist - it’s saturated with your fantastic taste.

    TRAVIS
    withinthehedges.blogspot.com


    Matt left a comment on 8/4/2011 at 12:16 PM:

    Very good playlist!!


    Brian left a comment on 8/3/2011 at 8:01 PM:

    Thank-you for another great playlist Fred


    CHC left a comment on 8/3/2011 at 11:43 AM:

    P.S. His website is www.richardmcgraw.com.

    I like that new Arcade Fire song!


    CHC left a comment on 8/3/2011 at 11:41 AM:

    Hey FEC,

    You should check out this singer/songwriter named Richard McGraw. His cover of Bob Dylan’s “My Life” is currently playing in Ralph Lauren stores. He has three great albums, the first one I listened to was called “Song and Void Vol. I”. There’s something vaguely preppy about the formality he brings to his music, and there’s a song called “Navy Blue” on “Song and Void”.

    His lyrics are great.

    Let me know if you wind up liking him!

    Best,

    CHC


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  • The Andy Warhol Diaries

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    Best ingested in small doses, The Andy Warhol Diaries are the closest thing there will ever be to Warhol’s autobiography—yet it is more honest and revealing than an autobiography could ever be. He dictated his diary to Pat Hackett, his secretary, around 9 A.M. every morning Monday-Friday...legal pad, tape recorder, hotel stationary, typewriter, and receipts—yes, even receipts and dollar amounts are given cameos in various entries (cab $3.50, Newsweek $2, dinner $200, etc). So that the diary could be published in one large volume, Hackett distilled its original length of 20,000 pages down to what she felt was most representative of Andy.

    From the intimate (Tuesday, February 17, 1987: the days before his untimely death) to the mundane (Monday, August 28, 1979: Warhol visits his dentist in Montauk) to the candid (Wednesday, February 15, 1978: “Hung over, couldn’t get out of bed.”) to the humorous (Tuesday, March 27, 1979: Warhol tells his friend Brigid to “go to church and pray to God” when she’s freaking out about her weight), the 807 pages paint a picture of a shy, ambitious, generous, bitchy, funny, phobic, and tormented man.

    “Andy had a late adolescence—in his twenties he’d worked very hard at his commercial art career; he didn’t take much time out to have fun, really, until he was in his thirties. So he terrorized people the way, for instance, the most popular girl in high school could—creating cliques and setting up rivalries just for the “entertainment” value of watching people fight for his attention. But toward the end of the seventies he started to mellow.”

    —Pat Hackett

    Jul 13, 2011 | Permalink (4) View/Leave Comments

    S left a comment on 7/18/2011 at 10:15 AM:

    The Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, TN) is currently hosting an excellent Warhol exhibit thru Sept 11.


    OldGeorgetowner left a comment on 7/16/2011 at 9:09 PM:

    Read this years ago.  A really interesting read.  If you like this you should read Edie, Edited by George Plimpton.  It’s about Edie Sedgwick.  A great book.


    Laguna Beach Fogey left a comment on 7/14/2011 at 8:15 PM:

    Excellent. I was in London when it was released. In a way, ideal bedtime reading.

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    GLG left a comment on 7/13/2011 at 12:50 PM:

    I’m a big fan of Andy Warhol, but I feel he is still largely misunderstood by many - even within artistically inclined circles. I’ll probably check this out.


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