Friday, January 15, 2010

Put It Into Practice: Eventide

Eventide is a lovely, dressy little place in Clarendon, a neighborhood here in Arlington, VA.  They have delicious craft beers and appetizers at a reasonable mark-up.  It is an excellent place to go with friends and a cruel place to go alone, owing to the frequently pretentious clientele.

I hemmed and hawed about what to wear to a dear friend's surprise birthday party there last Saturday.  I settled on jeans and my black cap-toes but couldn't decide where to go from there.  (I tend to work from the shoes up.)  I just knew I didn't want to be Another Dude in Dressy Jeans and a Button-Down.

Flashback: I bought this shirt on Threadless a month ago--for obvious reasons, I had to have it--but once I got it, I wasn't sure when to wear it:




Until that night.  So I put it under my white Oxford, which I left unbuttoned to the navel.  From a distance, chameleon; up close, hot chicks on wolves with booze and automatic weapons, lighting doves on fire:




My friends got a big kick out of it, and I got to feel a little subversive without being rudely distracting.

5 comments:

  1. While I have loved this blog after being notified of its existence through a coworker I must disagree with you about Eventide. It may be the worst place to grab a craft beer/cocktail in the metro DC area. The clientèle is more pretentious than a drunk frat boy at the Georgia v. Florida football game (aka the worlds biggest cocktail party). It simply is a horrendous establishment.

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  2. Anonymous, thanks for reading and for the kind words. Glad you enjoy the content. As for Eventide, it may have helped that we amounted to a third of the people at Eventide that night, so the staff were attentive and friendly.

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  3. your women on wolves shirt is tres hot.

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  4. There's a sparkle in the full-body shot that definitely makes it look like you put on body glitter. And I'm not certain it's the camera that did it...

    (Cobo.)

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  5. That is glare from the flash. Or else it's man-sheen. Nobody knows.

    Super-anonymous, I thank you.

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