yikes.

GQ: The 40 Worst Dressed Cities in America

1. Boston
Boston is like America’s Bad-Taste Storm Sewer: all the worst fashion ideas from across the country flow there, stagnate, and putrefy. To be fair, it’s hard to be a fashion capital when half of your population is made up of undergraduate hoodie monsters, including those unfortunate coeds who don’t realize that leggings-as-pants were supposed to be paired with tops large enough to conceal their cameltoes. Yet when they graduate, they can wear their Uggs and still fit in at the country’s largest frat party on Lansdowne behind Fenway, where they can take breaks between body shots to admire just how long boot-cut jeans can stay in style in one place. And any classy lady from Beantown is bound to be impressed by formal sportswear. “But Boston is the epicenter of prep style!,” you say? That’s true, but due to so much local in-breeding, Boston suffers from a kind of Style Down Syndrome, where a little extra ends up ruining everything: Khakis!—with pleats. Boat shoes!—with socks. Knit ties!—actually, no one in Boston seems to have ever seen one of these. For the more proletarian-minded, there are the modest little burgs of Cambridge and Somerville, where everyone dresses like the proprietor of his or her very own meth lab. If you wonder how a people can live like this, well, it’s Jurassic Park for fashion troglodytes: life finds a way. —John B. Thompson



watch.

For the past few weeks, I’ve been shopping around for a watch, a process that proved far more stressful than originally anticipated with much thanks to my neuroticism. Lessons learned:

- never buy expensive watches online, or forever be paranoid that is is fake or that something is wrong with it

- big metal watches that are “in” right now are too heavy and hurt my wrists so I shall have to look cool in other ways…

- sometimes it actually takes buying something to realize that you’d rather just keep the $200 it cost

After much ogling and amazon/nordstrom/macys browsing. I’ve decided to stick to my original purchase. Fancy heavy highly-shiny metal time piece is going back in the box.