u/curlyman89

The traditional consensus is that Ivy style requires a clean shave. Which is fine if you are a 19 year old college kid who can’t grow one, or work a job with a rigid dress/grooming policy. (Even though most jobs are business casual now)

I like them and I think they can look good with preppy attire, for example, in the J.Press show there were a few models who had mustaches. But more mainstream brands like RL you don’t see any models with a mustache.

Is a stache inherently not preppy?

Also, I am not saying this in a “new prep” context. I’m speaking from a traditionalist point of view.

30% off select sale right now just letting yall know

Anything about this sale? I know it’s gone on in years past but haven’t heard about it anytime recently.

I feel like as time goes on, the more and more I hear people moaning and groaning about these two words. I am 25, and have been saying mommy and daddy my whole life and have only recently gotten comments about it now.

It’s one thing to go up to your parents and say “hey mommy 🥺🥺🥺”. But I do not know a SOUL that says this. If I’m talking to my brother, I’ll say: “hey do you know where mommy’s car keys are”.

That is not weird, it’s not strange, it’s definitely not sexual. I’m not some adult baby, it’s just a word to call your parents.

I find that the majority of people who hate on this word come from dysfunctional families where the very idea of having any form of endearment towards your parents is foreign. I am sorry if you feel this way but this doesn’t entitle anyone to judge someone for a word. Another aspect is people who think it’s sexual, which I’m not even going to acknowledge because you need to reevaluate if you think people are saying stuff like that in public out of context.

I feel like is coming from a generation of people who had broken families/porn rotted brains and decided that they had to project their issues onto other peoples totally normal conversations.

Edit: I do not exclusively say mommy/daddy, nor do I address them as such. It’s pretty much exclusively used in conversations about them with siblings. Which I think is fine.

I ran into Brendon Babenzien at the 5th Ave J. Crew today and it was honestly weird enough to make me think there’s more to why he left the company than we think. If any Noah employees in here please feel free to chime in on your opinions of him.

I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, and that it was strange to see him here since it’s been a while since he left the company. I said that I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him or ask for photos or anything.

He looked at me and said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” while snapping his fingers shut in front of my face. I was honestly flustered by this.

I walked away and kept browsing the secret wash shirts and the giant fit chinos he made, I heard him chuckle as I moved down the rack. When I went up to the counter to pay I saw him trying to walk out the door with like fifteen pairs of critter print socks and a Barbour jacket under his arm without paying.

My usually salesperson at the register and he was very nice and professional and said, “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first Brendon pretended to be distracted and not hear him, but eventually turned back and brought them to the counter.

When he picked up one of the socks and started scanning it multiple times, Brendon stopped him and told him to scan each one individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” then turned and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word.

After he scanned each pair and started to say the total, Brendon kept interrupting him by yawning really loudly. He then pulled a bunch of old near empty visa gift cards and tried paying the total with however much was left on each one. Making sure to call the number on the back of each individual card to get the balance before making the cashier charge just for that.

I watched this all happen for about 15-20 minutes. This experience somewhat shocked me. For such a high profile designer/creative to be acting at a company he used to work at? This just felt extremely petty and the salesperson helping him honestly looked like a mess after the interaction.

There must be more than meets the eye with him and his relationship with J. Crew. I definitely think more has happened that we don’t know about yet or has been NDA’d away.

As we know the Memorial Day 30% off sale is coming up. It’s also my birthday this month so I have the email 15% off as well. Anyone know if this stacks?