Japanese Barbeque...Yakuno, Kyoto

Tennis shirt by Lacoste (vintage, made in France), belt by Polo Ralph Lauren, khakis by Deco, shoes by Sperry Top-siders.

Coats On! Links à la Mode: October 14th

Coats on!

Edited by: Florrie Clarke of Intrinsically Florrie
Change is literally in the air, bringing with it the cold and rain that requires a wardrobe transition. I must confess to being ill prepared myself and as a consequence have been drenched in the freezing cold. Time to get out your boots and coat because fall is well and truly here. I may stick stubbornly to my floral dresses all year round, but the difference is in the layers. So I'm on the look out for fabulous tights and there are a couple of lovely posts to help me choose or even DIY my own style.

Links à la Mode: October 14th

• Beautifully Invisible: The Art of Fashion Photography, as told by guest contributor Casee Marie


• Best of bklyn: A guide to looking great on rainy days.


• Broke & Beautiful: Kelli Murray proves that fashion and style are both forms of art.


• Clothed Much: Blogging tips I've learned after a year and a half of blogging


• Dramatis Personae: If I Were Another Person- What would you wear if you were someone else?


• Forever Amber: My discovery of style blogging has also led to a discovery of places around my town that I didn't even know existed


• Grit and Glamour: Friend Friday: Sticks, Stones, Comments, Criticism, and Kindness


• Independent Fashion Bloggers: Bloggers Talk Monetizing Sites


• Intrinsically Florrie: A backstage look at the London Season debutantes of 2010 at the Queen Charlotte's Ball, featuring Pronovias wedding dresses and Mikimoto jewelry.


• Leia's Delights: Tutorial on how to enhance curly/wavy hair


• Love Brown Sugar: Why spend your hard-earned dollars on trends that will fade away next season? A Guide To Thrifting Trends


• Make the World a Prettier Place: A selection of beautiful vintage-inspired dresses


• Malvestida: I came across the idea of making a photoshoot about two of the things I love the most: music and fashion.


• Oranges and Apples: Beauty Essentials: Nivea Creme


• Other Dutch Animals: Mad men and English women: reject the high maintenance of the past and do vintage your way


• Skinny Purse: How To Wear Tights - Fall's Essential Foundation Garment


• Shrimp Salad Circus: Get that extra mile out of your tights with seven fun and fashionable DIY projects!


• Style Eyes: Sustainable Clothing - Progress by the UK high street and online retailers since the launch of the sustainable clothing action plan


• The Citizen Rosebud: The story a a couple of backhanded compliments


• The Coveted: Is it Fall Yet? What to wear in transitional weather.


• The New Professional: DIY: Turn an A-line into a pencil skirt.

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Railing...Fukuchiyama, Kyoto

Bowtie by J. PRESS, shirt by Polo Ralph Lauren, belt by Gap, pants by Uniqlo, shoes by Sperry Top-siders.

Awesome giveaway at Preppy Princess

The Preppy Princess is usually too bright and too commercialised for me to follow regularly, since I tend to be more focused on personal style blogs, street style blogs, and discussions of traditional clothing. No denying I am prep, yet there comes a point when too much pink and kelly green starts to assail the eyes.

That being said, the Preppy Princess has a truly awesome giveaway going on right now for another twenty four hours. While I have no inkling of who follows my blog, perhaps this giveaway is something you would like.

For me? I just want the Vinyard Vines whale tie and the original copy of The Official Preppy Handbook, thanks. The rest (including the much panned True Prep) someone else can have.

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Links à la Mode: October 8th

Hats Off!

Edited by: Thom of The Sunday Best

With fashion weeks in full swing it would have been easy for the IFB fold to post multiple photos and call it a day. Hats off to these dedicated writers for continuing to pump out original content on often thorny issues (negative blogging anyone?). In particular it was nice to finally see more than one male blogger throwing his hat into the ring. Dressed for Dinner - we salute you and your lovely beard.

Links à la Mode: October 8th

• A la Modest: Bjork - the bold and bizarre living canvas


• Beauty and the Recession: 5 ways to avoid bitchy commenting


• Beyond Fabric: Buckle up


• Dressed for Dinner: The growth of menswear


• Fashion Limbo: How to grow old gracefully and happily


• For Those About To Shop: Giving back is the new black


• Forever Amber: Back to the asylum


• Fuyume: Japanese fashion's influence on western style


• Independent Fashion Bloggers: The Money Myth of Fashion Blogging


• Oh la la Curves: We need diversity


• Oranges and Apples: Negative blogging


• Other Dutch Animals: Gap teeth: fashion trend?


• Qqueen of Hearts: Are you in it for the fame or fortune?


• Sam Sensibility: Is Gareth Pugh predicting a future without catwalks?


• Sparrow and Urchin: Henry Ford


• Sugar and Spice: Postscript - copying in fashion industry


• The Sunday Best: The curious appeal to authenticity


• The Taxonomy of My Wardrobe: Negative fashion bloggers - why?


• The Coveted: Nicole Miller's preppy twist


• Watch This Place: Stockings and stereotypes

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Graffiti...Fukuchiyama, Kyoto

Shirt by Brooks Brothers, tie by J. PRESS, belt by Polo Ralph Lauren, khakis by Deco, shoes by Coach.

Tiny Cars...Fukuchiyama, Kyoto

Sport coat by Jil Sander for Uniqlo, khakis by Deco, shoes by G. H. Bass, rugby, belt, and socks by Polo Ralph Lauren, vintage 1976 Jimmy Carter for President button.

Boat Shoes Out; Weejuns In

It's been unseasonably warm here in Kyoto lately. September was absolutely mid-summer, and when it's not raining here in October, the temperatures are in the high seventies, or even breaking eighty. This, of course, means I've still been wearing my madras shorts and Sperry Topsiders almost any time I am not working. However, if there's one thing Kyoto and Texas have in common, it is the tendency for cold snaps to appear out of nowhere.

Despite the seventy-seven degree weather today, I have finally turned my thoughts to khakis and not madras, rugby shirts instead of polos, heavy oxford button downs from Brooks Brothers and Ralph Lauren as opposed to thin and airy broadcloth from Uniqlo.

The next posts, when they appear, will be about fall, and reflect themes of classic campus looks, starting with the original penny loafers, G. H. Bass Weejuns.

No pennies necessary.