again, why this guy is legend

I am posting over at Alpha Industries this week. Have talked about our stylish friend WB before; own brand of tobacco named after him etc...

10engines over at details -my style icon

As I have said before, I’ve always been a fan of local heroes over movie stars, and the-girl-next-door over glamour models. Luckily I was ‘the-boy-next-door’ so that worked out well for me...

Anyway, one of my style icons is a family friend of ours in Vermont, an older gent with an epic preppy/woodsy vibe who has been a quiet mentor to me, my brothers and other lads in the area. Head over to Details.com and you can read my shout out to him. BTW check the wine cork used as a bobber on his fishing line, classic. Cheers to you Byrdy.

Have to add one more anecdote about coming back from camp (by “camp” meaning the vernacular wood structure that was the hunting basecamp);

There was a pegboard over the stove covered in dried spaghetti from years of “testing” to see if it done, or we might have “champagne chicken” cooked in homebrewed apple bubbly for dinner. Pitch black morning wake ups of course, with pitch black coffee. Requisite old Playboys in the bookshelf. You think a 17 y/o kid was enjoying this? It is now 20-odd years later and it is burned in my memory...

I remember one classic ride back home, we were in the pickup but as no back seat my brother had to ride in the bed, bungeed onto a lawn chair, during a thunder storm... he freekin loved it.

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WB loaned us his grandfather’s military saber to cut our wedding cake (when Mrs. 10e and I got married the second time, in the same year... long story involving Iceland, Vermont, a cathedral in Scotland and 9/11), he advocates brown brogues with dark grey suits, and has a blend of tobacco named after him at the nearby pipe shop. Legend status.

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Later this week will be posting an interivew I did with one of my all-time style icons. An older gent that lives in southern VT. Just clues until then...

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I recently asked WB about his thrift store shopping habits, he laughed, “The shirts... its becoming a problem. Its an addiction”. Plus, every time we meet up he seems to have a box of wool pants, or blue blazers with my name on it to pick through. Fantastic.

He needs a barn to store everything, literally. Recently the "bodyshop", i.e. the garage/barn/gym he owned, has been moved back from the road and received a new foundation. This gem was a retreat for my brother and me sometimes. What guy wouldn't want a place like this.

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Note balthazar of Veuve used as a door bumper...

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I’ve always been a fan of local heroes over movie stars, and the-girl-next-door over glamour models. Luckily I was ‘the-boy-next-door’ so that worked out well for me...

Anyway, one of my style icons is a family friend of ours in Vermont, an older gent with an epic preppy/woodsy vibe who has been a quiet mentor to me, my brothers and other lads in the area. Towards the end of this week my last post for Details.com will be up, and it is a shout out to him. Inspiration-board shots till then...