The Sunday Best

223. The Fine Art of Not Letting People Get What They Want | H&M

The web is a-flutter with talk of the coming Comme des Garçons line for retail juggernaut H&M.

Style Salvage wonders if Steve will wear all the polka dot pieces at the same time.

We Are The Market (which provided the picture up top) are fans of the tailored jackets.

And Fashionista has the largest selection of photos, or rather it did before H&M asked them to take them down. Which makes perfect sense because nothing creates buzz like not letting people see what you're offering.

Well done H&M. Kudos for following the path of television companies that rip videos from YouTube because they'd rather have control than actual fans of their work, Lord knows what would have happened if pictures of your clothes were plastered all across the internet for free so that people could rave about them and basically sign over their first born in anticipation.

Message from retailers to consumers - we know the economy is shite, but screw you anyway. You know what, H&M? How about sewing your buttons on with thread not made from papier-mâché.

208. IOU

A song.

A podcast.

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The dapper kid reads my mind (of the last two years at least) - BOOTS.

MaleUgly solves my card wallet problem - Modern Amusement. Although the Paul Smith and Dior Homme versions are definite Spare Changers at $150 and $140 respectively.

Things to consider - the cropped jacket.

Apparently bachelor parties in Australia are a little different.

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205. Still doing it justice...

203. Podcast | Technical difficulties

Last night at midnight my time, 8AM her time, I placed a call to one Susanna Lau, aka Susie Bubble, and proceeded to have a highly entertaining discussion with her about all things Susie and more besides. Her accent probably made the chat seem more refined than it actually was.

After an hour had flown by I bid her goodnight, only to discover that I hadn't recorded a single minute of our conversation. Nada. Zip. Zero. Stingy with dinero.

Susie has graciously agreed to do it all again, and if you're a future guest on TheSundayBest feel free to ask me if I'm recording. You can even point to this post.

Management

200. 200th post | Links edition

200 here at last. Next stop...

Les Internets

One of the best "online magazines" for men right now is Valet. Layout = win. Font choice for banner = win. Style breakdown of Mad Men with the costume designer, Janie Bryant = win win win.

Mad Men style (Valet)

Always wanted to sit down and chinwag with the Style Bubble? Now you can (sort of).

She Speaks (Style Bubble)

Les Mens Blogs

A Continuous Lean is almost too interesting.

Kempt looks at the coolest of all cool collaborations - John Coltrane and Miles Davis. (Also - getkempt.com is the best URL ever. It just is.)

A Suitable Wardrobe praises the well-made shoe.

Other

Tommy lives in London, shares my name, and takes amazing photos.

Coming up on TheSundayBest

My interview with lc. (Who has packed up her wardrobe...and maybe next her blog.)

The return of the magazine report (this time it moves!)

Future interviews with Susie of Style Bubble and Winona of Daddy Likey.

Other shenanigans the likes of which the world has never seen.

193. lc stops writing fops and dandies

As many of you already know, word has come down the pipe that lc is stepping away from fops and dandies to go to law school. As many of you probably also know by now, both Charlie and I went to law school and it didn't work out for us. Hopefully it is a much more fulfilling experience for lc.

All the best lc - the blogging world will really miss you.

192. How Good Life Can Be

I hope it's good for you.

(First use of new scanner.)

Another summer without white shoes.

188. The Podcast Cometh

TheSundayBest Podcast - Episode One

Containing therein my thoughts on matters

• fashionable
• social
• historical
• socio-historical
• the use of the word "man" as an adjective
• hand-clapping matters

and many others on which I am not qualified to speak. It will also contain my interview with Lulu Chang, marketing manager of Chictopia.com. I contribute on a somewhat weekly basis to Chictopia's Everybody is Ugly,

Broadcast Date: Monday | July 14 | 2008 | 9.00 AM PST

If you have someone that you'd like to hear on future podcasts, and this is someone I can reasonably contact as opposed to, say, Tom Ford, drop me a line at thesundaybest AT gmail DOT com. And if you'd like to be on the podcast, explain your particular talent to me and we'll fit you in. By we I mean me. No promises but really, who am I to say no?

186. How was your weekend?

I spent mine in Sear's catalogue poses.

The "American Gothic."

The "Blues Brothers."

The "Oh my god what's that!"

The "Checking Time."

There was also some very good food.

184. Just had to say

Swissco moustache combs are the best.