So, for Christmas, I was purchased a subscription to both Esquire and GQ. While the clothing in these magazines is fashionable for sure, I feel that these mags are more for the "east coast crowd" that has the appropriate weather to wear jackets all the time with sweaters under them. It's not really appropriate for somewhere like AZ, where we try to wear as little as possible. Are there equivalent west coast fashion mags for men, where the dress code is a little "lighter"?

Same thing down here bro. It is only cold enough to occasionally wear heavy stuff here, and that is usually only in January and February. I have a fair amount of sweaters, mostly light ones, and sometimes they rarely get worn, and when I do it's usually with no jacket. The stores still dump the summer stuff here though, and I guess it's a national chain move. I bought a nice pair of plaid, Red Camel cargo shorts for $6 the other day, and a Daniel Cremieux polo, $49 list, for $12. This time of year down here you can rack up on summer clothes cheap, and shorts can be worm all the way to and sometimes including November.

I have a couple nice coats that I literally only get to wear < 5 times a year here. It simply doesn't get cold enough. Wearing a coat in the summer time is a good way to spontaneously combust.

It is still 90 degrees here right now, plus humidity :p

101 out tomorrow :ugh2:

So what are some of your favorite places to shop?

Outside of work, spring through early fall it is shorts and t-shirts or polos or Hawaiian/Tommy Bahama type silk shirts. Tommy Bahama is a nice store. I guess as far as department stores go, Dillards, Macy's ........... Brooks Brothers. I honestly don't have a single fav type shop. I typically know what I want if I see something in a magazine I like, then I go hunt it down :p

i hate people like you guys." oh our weather is too nice for jackets" bite me.


lol

That's not it, lol, it is a waste of money to buy too many coats and heavy stuff, that you'll never wear ...................... guess what shmby, MOVE :tup:, go to where the good weather is :bowrofl:

lol i know but i like winter

:tup: Well you are in the right place then for sure :tiphat:

Understatement :bowrofl:

Look, I'm the last guy to trash a consumer product. I'm disinclined to blast the manufacturers of a beloved bathroom gel as deceivers who make money off people's ignorance and perpetuate the problem they are supposedly solving, or charlatans who deliberately hook people on some chemically produced gunk solely for the sake of profiting from repeated uses.

But someone has to say it: shaving cream is a racket.

Why don't people know this? It's just part of the lost knowledge of our time. Wean yourself from it for a week, and you will find that your shaves will be closer, unbloody, and quick. Imagine a full shave in less than a minute, with no cuts, gashes, or discomfort. It is within your grasp.

You won't have the face of a tenderized chicken breast. Your skin will be solid and robust. You will feel the same revulsion I do as you encounter that long row of shaving products at the drug store. You too will feel pity on the seventh eights of the human race that does not understand this simple point.

Why is the world hooked on this stuff? Here's what happens. Early on in a person's life, when whiskers and stubble begin to appear on the skin, the young teen is presented a razor and a can – a can with a squirting top that releases a foam. It is a charming little foam. The child is taught to rub it on and then shave it off.

Oh how funny looking it is when the foam is on us! And how fun to zap it off. We are left with clean and smooth skin. Pure magic. But the magic doesn't last.

It never occurs to this child – so innocent, so naïve, so trusting – that he or she has been hooked into a lifetime of shaving hell. That foam, that sweet looking puff of magic, is in fact the great enemy of a good shave – black magic that relies on perpetuating dependency and ignorance.

The problem is this. Shaving cream does something evil to the skin. It somehow weakens the pores and makes the top layer mushy and unresponsive. The kid comes to believe that somehow the foam is essential to the experience. Without it, surely the razor would leave a trail of blood.

But then strange things start to happen. Red lumps appear. The shaved skin comes to feel sort of strange, oddly sensitive to temperature changes and ever more vulnerable to being sliced and diced.

People think: oh I need a new razor! So they go out and buy ever more fancy brands, with multiple blades, pivoting heads, strange lubricants, and push-out tools to deposit the hair remains in the sink.

They don't consider that it might be the shaving cream that is the source of the trouble.

Why don't people imagine this possibility? Because shaving cream seems so frothy and innocent, the glorious barrier that stands as a guard or shield between your skin and the sharp blade. The cream is our valiant protector, so surely that is not the source of the problem!

In fact, it is not our protector. Shaving cream is destroying your skin, turning it into a whining, pathetic, dependent, beaten, insipid layer of pasty pulp. Your skin has become the fatted calf that has been killed, the lamb slain on the altar, the virgin sacrificed in some ancient cannibalistic ritual of an uncivilized people.

Of course the problems persist – and get worse.

There are many attempts to avoid them along the way. People try aftershave, more and more and more of it. Pretty soon, they are tossing handfuls of the stuff on their skin, putting alcohol all over tenderized and sliced up skin. Then they become attached to that too. But it is not enough. The redness and pain are still there.

There are those who believe in hot lather. They buy fancy machines and rise extra early to warm them up. There are those who make the leap toward electric razors that swirl and buzz around in a creepy sort of way. There are those who believe the key to shaving is time: this site, linked from LRC, actually makes the preposterous claim that a good shave should take 12 minutes.

Stop the insanity!

The core problem is shaving cream itself, and the solution is a radical one: throw it out and never buy it again. It is destroying you and making your skin weak and sickly.

But you say: surely if this were true, it would be common knowledge. Not sure. There are many thing that are true – the state is a parasite on society, private property would solve most social problems, rock music is tedious and stupid – but are nonetheless not generally known or applied. The truth that shaving cream is a racket should be added to this.

Many problems in the world cannot be solved by one person. But this one can. You can begin the process of letting your skin become normal again. You can restore your skin's health. It won't take longer than a week or so. Stick with it and you will see what I mean.

The first stage of freedom uses only a razor (double blade is fine) and a bit of baby oil or mineral oil. While in the shower or soon after you get out, put some oil on the skin area you want to shave. Then shave it. The end.

At first, it won't feel right. You might cut yourself. It will be scary. Your skin might hurt a bit. It might swell up. Why? Because you have turned your skin to mush for decades of shaving cream use. It needs time to recover from this. You need to do this for days.

This is your first day of relief from shaving cream hell. Your skin is recovering. Do the same the next day. And the next. And the next. After 5 days, normalcy will be almost returned.

After a week, you can even give up the oil and use only warm water. You will find that you will be able to shave ever more swiftly and with ever more abandon. A man can shave his whole face in 20 seconds without a single abrasion.

My freedom from shaving cream began twenty years ago after a friend uttered to me the great truth that shaving cream is a racket. Ever since I have exulted in my knowledge and felt deep pity on the rest of the world for languishing in unknowingness.

To my knowledge, this is the first and only time that this great truth has been revealed. May this short article serve as a hinge of history.

The Shaving Cream Racket by Jeffrey A. Tucker

Shaving is an industry that has long relied on deceit. An insider told me years ago that when big razor companies are pushing the next big super razor, they intentionally place duller blades in the previous generation, so that when you buy the big brand-new one, you immediately get a closer shave. Believe me, it's not because it has a head that encases 6 blades and jizzes foam. It's because Gillette has been purposely cutting your face for 6 months leading up to release.

I can't try the above procedure, as I do not have baby oil. Maybe anal lube would suffice.

I thought you were shaving your face :icon14: