Men's fashion, or a small list of interesting sites

My lovely boyfriend popped round my house on Saturday with a surprise copy of 'Fantastic Man' he bought. Thank you lovely boyfriend for my surprise!
I also regularly read Charlie Porter's column and as you know, visit The Sartorialist at least 3 times a day, so why the interest in men's fashion I hear you (aka me) cry?
Well I have always been interested in tailoring (English Cut is a good weblog for this), and its easier to find articles about men's suits than it is about general tailoring. Secondly, men's fashion is still quite unimportant compared to women's, and because of this seems a little more subdued and concise. Which I like.
I suppose men's fashion is still a little underground, as opposed to women's where where everyone is a fashion writer indiscriminately gushing over any old designer gubbins. I would like to see more articles about volume and structure. There is an interesting article in FM about pleats, and I get the feeling that if this article were in a women's magazine it would be "5 tulip skirts for under £500"

Rule number one...

I have broken my first rule of my 'Sewing Year Zero' code of practice by starting something before finishing the bag, I am making a special towel for my nephew-in-law. It is going to be a square towel with a little hood, his name appliquéd on the back and all trimmed with bias binding. I found some instruction for bias binding here and made it myself, pretty nifty eh?

Latest project

I have a new sewing project underway at the moment, I am altering a bag I bought a good while ago. I'm going to line it and sew on the bamboo handles properly. I'll probably add loads of pockets inside, and perhaps even a magnetic fastening; I'm going to London in a couple of weeks so I might go to Kleins and get some of their brilliant haberdashery bits.
The Sartorialist has got some pretty tops pictures at the moment, I love the picture of the man in the suit its so wonderfully cut, and I think I will see this dress in my dreams forever.

I really like the Burberry outfit in the picture. The colour combination reminds me of when I was walking past a cemetary in Haywards Heath, and I was struck by the dark woody green of the conifers against a limpid grey-blue sky. It made me think of some dark green wool culottes I bought from a charity shop once, and I wanted to make a pale silk or very fine cotton shirt to go with it. Possibly with dark wood buttons.
The image comes courtesy of the Sartorialist, a blog which has occupied the best part of my afternoon.