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Originally Posted by nicelynice
Junkadelic in Tokyo is pretty good, pricy as **** though for mexican

In other news, the cute 20 yr old girl girl in the copy room I've been hitting on and getting lunch with lately.. has a husband and a one year old daughter. Woops!


lol! so nonchalant too-"woops"
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Originally Posted by nicelynice
Junkadelic in Tokyo is pretty good, pricy as **** though for mexican

In other news, the cute 20 yr old girl girl in the copy room I've been hitting on and getting lunch with lately.. has a husband and a one year old daughter. Woops!


I'm glad Seoul has a Chipotle ripoff that's cheap.
 

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Originally Posted by kwoyeu
haha, sorry if this was posted two years ago but this is interesting (and the Detail slideshow too)

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not going to take a stand on whether Detail actually improved the outfit but wonder what people think?


They ditched the baller hi-tops - in favor of Clark's DBs, no less - but kept those hideous jeans?

I'll say the following:

- That's not my favorite colorway on those.
- I agree that they make him look shorter.
- The real issue is that he's doing a terribad job of wearing them.

sq always looked way, way better in his (which were in a better colorway), and I'm pretty sure he's not 6'3" or anything.
 

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yeah sq is a shorter dude wanna say like 5'6-5'8ish? the "hightops/boots don't work for short guys" thing is really dumb. pictures taken from certain angles always make people look short anyway.
 

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I need sandals for summer, to wear with suits and spring coats.
 

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Originally Posted by AndrewRyanWallace
yeah sq is a shorter dude wanna say like 5'6-5'8ish? the "hightops/boots don't work for short guys" thing is really dumb. pictures taken from certain angles always make people look short anyway.
It does actually have a little truth behind it.
 

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Originally Posted by dwyhajlo
Had a bit of a nerdy moment at the bookstore today when I noticed the old Oki-Ni model staring at me from the cover of a magazine; I guess he's involved in LN-CC. There's a neat little feature on LN-CC in the most recent issue of Frame with some pretty good pictures of the inside of the store.

read this, cool article. the blonde guy that modeled for oki ni is a part owner of Late night chameleon club (ln-cc). did not know. takes you inside the store and comments on how they model their clothes; sort of a blend of different brands to create an awesome aesthetic(which someone once pointed out here iirc)
 

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i need more brands that sell interesting black shirts, but arent too sophisticated/artisan.
 

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I'm actually gonna argue that tucks do make you look shorter.

The best way to look taller is an unbroken vertical line from your legs to your shoes. Tucks not only break that line, but reduce the vertical line of your legs down. (Uncuffed jeans, dark boots with non-contrast though still-height-adding soles, and shorter jackets all give you an impression of "height")

Furthermore, sneaker tucks emphasize the proportion between your legs and your feet. The tuck is gonna look "smaller" if you're taller and "bigger" if you're shorter. It's equivalent to wearing a jacket that's too long (in terms of looking disproportionate).

However, whether that matters or not is another question. Style isn't just about looking taller or shorter.
 

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^if this is true at all (and I suspect it's kind of a faulty logic), it is only true in pictures, and it is really negligible because seriously, how much vertical distance are you losing from a sneaker tongue or the top of a boot that you would "gain" from a low top shoe? ankle height at most, some maybe a few inches?, unless we're talking taller boots which aren't really popular here. (although Stazy's boots recently got a lot of love, that's probably the first time we've soon boots like that in waywt for a while)
 

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This whole discussion is absurd, those hightops or whatever draw your eyes to those things and make you realize the person is short. It's not that they look shorter but you notice their shortness from those things. A 6'3" dude at certain camera angles can look 5"6".
 
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