Secrets of the City

Max Sparber is about as stylish as Andy. In fact, I challenge you two to have a style off, or maybe a foot race, to decide who wins.

Andy looks totally different in the winter. He wears a massive fur hat and rides a bike. Reminiscent of a bureaucrat in Kiev, 1978.

In a hockey uniform, he looks more like those hockey player brothers from northern MN who were featured in Slap Shot.

I certainly don’t qualify.

 I did wear a tie for an event at the RNC (at the Depot in downtown Mpls), but that’s about it.

That’s an unfortunate pose — I look like I’m after a handout.

kwatt dresses well, as does g_rote.

Jane it’s almost blasphemous that you refer to the hansen bros as “those hockey player brothers”

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I think Andy just oozes style. Every time I see him I think, “Damn, that man knows how to dress.”

Scott Seekins has style too.

I’d have better style if it was possible to get clothes my size that I like to wear. There is never anything good at thrift shops or at second hand stores for the plus sized girl. I end up wearing too much Old Navy, Target, Lane Bryant, Torrid and JC Pennys. Yuck, but that’s what I got to work with. There is some slutty and tacky plus sized stuff around but I have to dress for work. Ant tons of old lady shit. There is some real classy stuff, but it al costs $100 and never goes on sale. I wish I could sew.

Aw Ryanol, give me credit for citing them at all. They were around 30+ years ago!

And Andy-in-hockey-uniform isn’t really very much like the Hansen Brothers. But he does have noticeable glasses!

There was this guy I saw floating around town the weekend before last….

Spotted him in the park with some nice lookin beat up boots, some red high socks with robots on them… his slacks were rolled up and he was wearing a plain t-shirt and sunglasses like he owned it. Now THAT’S style.

Splashy. Classy. Great style. Iconic, in a Tom Wolfe sort of way.

If I had to pick one well dressed local gent, I would say that Ryan Burnet’s mom dresses him quite nicely.

I dig Andy’s style. I like to think that’s how I’d dress like if I hadn’t given up thrift store shopping in the mid 90’s. Or if I worked on a midwestern college campus. But alas, I married a respectable woman, got a semi-respectable job and could no longer spend hungover Saturdays @ Value Village or come to work smelling like moth balls. Or any kind of balls, for that matter.

Additionally, I would say that I’m too fat and sweat far too easily to be truly fashionable by today’s standards (WTF skinny jeans & summer scarves?) and that my wardrobe currently lacks imagination. But beyond that, I do have some rather nice classic suit / shirt / tie combos that work with my hibernating in the winter build.

Jon Oulman is always nattily attired.

Tru dat, Ron. Oulman’s son Jarret dresses decidely scuffily, but both fit in nicely with the NE Mpls vibe.

The day Jon Oulman bought me a drink at the 331 because he liked the cut of my thrift store suit was one of my proudest days as a Minneapolitan.