Articles by JJ Lee.

Menswear

How high can guys go? The long and short of it

By JJ Lee
At an Obakki fashion show, attendees don’t hem or haw when it comes to the subject of men’s shorts.
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Fashion Plate

Short shorts? Get a leg up on what’s chic now

By JJ Lee
Judging by what’s hanging from retailer racks and the derrières of gamines, hottish pants and short shorts will hold sway once again on the beach and on the streets this season.
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Style Watch

Bespoke tailoring makes the well-suited man

By JJ Lee
Beware. Once you’ve stepped over the threshold of young-gun tailor David Wilkes’s studio, you’ll never be able to wear an off-the-rack suit again without your soul dying a little. Ready-made suits are often filled with foams, glues, and synthetic fibres. They’re built to fit a theoretically average-proportioned man. If your chest, waist, and torso measurements don’t match up, you’re out of luck.
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Georgia Straight Style

Femme tie girls show boys how neckwear should be done

By JJ Lee
This spring body-hugging, white shirts with structured collars will be paired with black shorts or skirts. Expect the tops smartly opened down by two, even three buttons. Women will be tempted to fill the space with cleavage, jewellery or, may it be suggested, with a Femme Tie ($60 at Hum Clothing, 3623 Main, and at Urbanity at 207 Abbott Street).
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Style Watch

For aspiring Vancouver’s Next Gay Top Models, a shirt-ripping night

By JJ Lee
Beautiful, smooth, flawless skin. Lanky limbs. Waspish waists. Heaving chests under which young, spirited hearts beat to the silent song of innocence. Laid out before all, within reach of outstretched arms, are a dozen samples of delectable eye candy. And who knows what pleasures they may have for us to savour.
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Style Watch | Menswear

Guys: be a one-man Valentine’s gift, but do it right

By JJ Lee
It’s time to get sexy.
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Style Watch | Menswear

Guys: be a one-man Valentine’s gift, but do it right

By JJ Lee
It’s time to get sexy.
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Georgia Straight Style

Snowboarders of the apocalypse

By JJ Lee
There's a breed of boarder on the hills who doesn't give a damn. This species toils on the night shift at the Boston Pizza, but in the day on a slope can land tricks good enough to make the cover of any snowboarding magazine.
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Style Watch

Bags for blokes evoke space, graphic design

By JJ Lee
Thousands of years of patriarchal oppression aside, women have it pretty good–when it comes to bags. Depending on the occasion, they have an arsenal of stylish ones to choose from without fear of reproach.
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Style Watch

Keep your skinnies, but wide-legs put flare in your jeans

By JJ Lee
There's a rising tide that lifts all boats, or rather a rising wide–wide-leg jeans are hot, baby. Christina Yeung, a designer for the successful Vancouver denim brand Dish, definitely agrees.
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Style Watch

Urban-cool Mandula promises a black-magic summer

By JJ Lee
On a recent visit to the fashion pied-à-terre of local designer Hajnalka Mandula, there was a development application posted outside. Can the end be nigh for Mandula, her eponymous boutique at 882 Homer Street?
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Style Watch

The barbershop finally catches up with the times

By JJ Lee
For some stylish gentlemen, nothing speaks of summer better than a new haircut that's short and sporty. Now, one can go to the local barbershop. It's cheap, familiar, and unintimidating. However, an old barber may interpret a request for a trim around the sides and back as an order to turn a man into a jarhead.
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Menswear

Redefining history in jeans

By JJ Lee
Jason Trotzuk approaches his work like a painter or a sculptor.
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Georgia Straight Style

Construction Chic

By JJ Lee
Workwear has that undeniable masculine-rugged thing going on—so lace up some big-lugged boots
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Menswear

Suit up, but not like dad

By JJ Lee
A nice dinner date is the classic idea for February 14. And as New York menswear writer and designer Alan Flusser once told me, “If you walk into a restaurant and you’re not known and you want to get a good table, a suit and tie will go much further down that road than any other form of dressing.”
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Style Features

Casual or classic, be bold this New Year’s

By JJ Lee
Gentlemen, you only need three things to celebrate New Year’s Eve in style. You need champagne. You need it to be December 31. And, most importantly, you need the right clothes.
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