Memories: One-Legged Sado-Fashionist

I had a terrible accident almost four years ago.

Shattered my left tibia, among broken nose and other injuries.

My Bathing Ape x Marvel Comics "Silver Surfer" tee was covered with blood from that accident. Tried to wash it out but never perfectly cleaned so I threw it away.

Did it stop me from going out, have fun and wear something nice? Not a chance.

If you are sick, be sure to be sick in style.

Fucking Awesome's fucking awesome hoodie

You can't see actually I was sitting on an wheeled office chair, in an elevator. I still had my fibre cast on my left leg. This picture was taken on Christmas Eve 2006 in Penang. I was totally wasted and couldn't walk AT ALL.

And lastly at the Nike Air Force 1's 25th Anniversary back in 2007.

Rock you don't stop.

Weekender: Pink Puma & Pink Robot.

I'm sure many guys think pink is a dangerous colour for them to wear. They think it is associated with something un-manly. I don't know about that though, I think if you know what you're wearing, you'll nail it. Plus, don't get too discouraged by what other guys think.

Couple of weekends ago.

Sole What? tee
Badger jeans
Solebox x Puma R698

Last weekend.


Sole What? tee
Nudie Jeans
Size? x Puma States

Sado Snaps: Fluorescent Adolescent

I guess KL needs brighter lights.

Men's Bag

These document holders look stunning and yet still look very masculine with the premium, reptilian leather finishing. Who says men can't wear some kind of 'clutch' bag? It works for me!

via http://terencesambowrites.blogspot.com/

Weekender: Vans, man!

Friday: Sun-bathing

Vans Era "checked"

Saturday: Meat-balling

Vans Sk8 Hi x 2

Sunday: Bubba-gumping

Vans Slip-On "Marc Jacobs"

Vans are cool, man!

Let's be realistic, a normal, average, next-door guy like me, I have a day job. My attire? Formal or semi formal, depends on who I meet for appointments but often it's determined by the weather. Nonetheless, either formal or semi formal.

Formal

Semi formal

That covers my entire day of the weekdays. In the evening I'm either at the gym, the basketball court, the futsal court, or at home. I only go out sometimes for other social activities. That's pretty much just t-shirt, shorts and running/basketball shoes, or just plain naked.

That leaves me only during the weekend to wear something different from my weekdays attire. And that's why I have a WEEKENDER column.

So to narrow down further, most of these weekends I made some effort to try something with my wardrobe. Usually it's pretty much the normal stuff though.

But during the lazy weekends, or rather a chill day, when all I want to wear is something simple and comfortable, yet still within certain style, I choose Vans. Any time.

Some of the Vans in my heavy rotations:

Vans Sk8 Hi (Gucci Colorway)

Vans Era (Checked)

Vans Slip-On x Marc Jacobs

Yes they don't look that pretty and clean, and I bet Paul Van Doren would be damn proud if he sees me justifying the existence of his Vans.

And yes too, I have few more.

Wild Wallet

You can see most of my entries have something to do with sneakers. It's obvious, I love sneakers. It's quite an easy decision: A fresh, good-looking sneakers will always stand out more, compared to tee/shirt, jeans/pants or accessories.

But don't get confused; I love other elements of style too. One of it, is wallet.

Wallet is part of accessories. Back in the days I used different wallets; leather, canvas, PVC, though I only remember having a Bvlgari wallet some years ago.

Let me tell you something: Getting the right wallet is just like getting a new pair of watch. It needs to fit you and your personality. It needs to represent your character, in a way. You need to love it. Imagine yourself buying a watch, you need to decide what colour it's going to be, whether it's metal or leather or canvas, round or square dial, analog or digital, and other tiny details.

If you don't believe me, just give some amount of money to someone close to you, and let him/her buy any watch for you. That person will definitely take some time to search for a suitable piece to match your personality. Well of course, if you have deep pockets and you have few pairs already, the rest would just fit in the occasions.

Same goes with wallet.

After that I got lost in other interests, and the current wallet I'm using is this:

This is a Topshop wallet, which I received as a birthday gift, two or three years ago, can't really remember. I needed a new wallet desperately that time, and what would fill that responsible, other than a birthday gift wallet?

This wallet serves me well. I changed more broken credit cards than the wallet itself.

But every good things do come to an end. I no longer need the service of that wallet, or shall I rephrase, the wallet couldn't handle my attitude anymore. Poor fella.

So I browsed through the internet, looking for a replacement. Something that fits me, my personality, my inner sense. My new, using-my-own-money wallet will have to live up to my expectation.

While I was browsing on different websites and forums (well, you can get nice stuff on forums at a decent price most of the time, just make sure it's legit) I bumped on a very, very striking and bold-looking wallet.

So that weekend I went off to the boutique.

It was a quick stop. Met an old friend, Skyylab (he works there) and paid for the stuff. Rushed home impatiently.

Skyylab also was generous to give some nice Juice stickers.

Nyum nyum...

There you go.

This is a wild collection by Head Porter, a very famous accessories brand (mainly wallet and bags, among other things) from Japan. When I first saw this piece it immediately struck my attention and I just couldn't stop talking about it ever since. And I got it.

Blue (outside) and red (inside). Wild. Wild.

Embossed and debossed

I'm a little concerned about environment, so don't worry it wasn't constructed using real crocodile leather, instead it was made using cow hide leather, and designed to look like a croc leather. A good way to not abuse those poor crocs. And of course, it comes with their standard authenticity card.

You can check out Head Porter on their Official Online Store. And thanks to Juice KL, you can check out their collections at:

Juice KL:
No. 46 & 46-1
Jalan Telawi 5
Bangsar Baru
59100, Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Tel: (03) 2283 5811
Website: Sole What?


WILD.