Prep LA.

Growing up in So Cal, I've always associated the word "Preppy" with our brothers from the east coast. Kids from the Ivy wore khakis, chambrays, and boat shoes while we, the left coasters, wore tanks, board shorts, and flip flops. Is it the weather? Well I sometimes find it hard to find motivation to dress preppy in 90 degree weather. Not to mention we frolick in the beaches while they row and skull on the Cambridge shore. LA Times recently ran an article on how preppy is back in full effect in LA and how it never left. For the full read, click here.

Katin USA for Apolis Activism Board Shorts

As I’m looking for a fresh pair of board shorts for the upcoming summer season, I came across this Katin USA for Apolis Activism board shorts. I’m going bananas after seeing this collaboration since this is a major double win for me. For one, I am a huge fan of Apolis Activism and their contemporary designs. Secondly, I’ve been a customer and a fan of Kanvas By Katin and their superior quality board shorts for as long as I can remember. I purchased my first ever pair of board shorts from the Katin surf shop off Pacific Coast Highway. Katin was always a stop for me and my childhood friends on our way to surf the Huntington Beach pier. This collaboration takes me back old school 1990’s style when all I ever worried about was getting out of school early enough to catch some waves before sunset. Those were the good ole days. These classic board shorts are now available at Context Clothing.

Food Day

I was filtering through our photo archives and I found some pictures from last month's LA Street Food Fest.  If there is anything I love as much as clothes and shoes, it's food. Roughly 30+ food trucks and thousands of people showed up at this event.  Food trucks like Buttermilk Truck, Grilled Cheese Truck, Flying Pig, and Komodo are the hottest craze in Los Angeles and they were all present and within reach from each other. As long as you were prepared to endure the marathon wait and lines.  It was a wild, hot, crowded, and crazy day. All for the love of amazing street food.

My absolute favorite cart/truck was Dogzilla.  Japanese style hot dogs on hawaiian sweet bread is pure bliss.

It was raining all week leading up to this perfect Southern California Saturday.  At a suprising 85+ degrees in the middle of February, I forgot my shorts and flip flops at home.

My digs:

Shirt: Gitman Vintage

Bottoms: Uniqlo

Shoes: Band of Outsiders x Sperry

This young money was the highlight of our day.

Lefties.

We were fortunate enough to be invited to the Lefties Showroom opening party this weekend. Lefties currently occupies an amazing showroom located at the Cooper Design Space in Los Angeles. Their roster includes lines such as DAT-TI, Daughters of the Revolution, Kettle Black, Jen's Pirate Booty, Hellz Bellz, and Kima Norway.  More importantly, the beautiful ladies of Lefties know how to throw and host an amazing party.  It was a successful opening filled with music, drinks, and great people.

Melissa Naguiat is 1/2 of the Lefties and also a great friend of ours.

Photo booths are so much fun!

My digs:
Shirt: American Apparel

Bottoms: APC New Standard

Belt: Jil Sander 

Shoes: Red Wing Classic Work Boot

85 Degrees and Rising

So it's starting to get hot in Southern Cali.  This time of the year is always bitter sweet.  As I say hello to shorts, tanks, tees, polos, and flip flops; I also have to say goodbye to my sweaters, jackets, and boots.  It was 85 degrees in LA last night and I had to bring out my favorite TOMS canvas slip-ons.  TOMS are fantastic.  I'd go ahead and tag them as the best travel shoes of all time.  Not only are they comfortable but TOMS are the easiest pair of shoes to remove during security checks. Beats having to take my socks off and unlace my sneakers only to put them all back together again.  Saves me at least 10 minutes since I'm always running late.  If you're unfamiliar with TOMS and their One for One campaign click here.

My digs:

Bottoms: The Hundreds No Limit in Olive

Shoes: TOMS Canvas Slip-on

Real people. Real reviews.

So I've been writing reviews on a website called Yelp for years now.  If you're not familiar with Yelp, it's a community of real people who write real testimonial reviews about their experiences in establishments such as restaurants, doctors, gyms, theme parks, night clubs, etc.  Ever since we've been introduced to Yelp, it has made decisions on where to go so much easier.  You might have to filter through a few iffy reviews from time to time but for the most part it's spot on. The community of reviewers active on Yelp is so huge that most establishments in any given area have very informative reviews.  We use it to plan date nights, decide on which movie theater to go to, read on who has the best local pizza, look for a 24 hour urgent care, and even plan locations to visit during our vacations.

So Yelp has a feature called ROTD "Review of the day" where your peers vote for what they feel is a legitimate and helpful review.  Well your man over here got the coveted ROTD for my review of the ARC - Arcadia Rock Climbing.  Click here to read more and check out the snapshot below.  Enjoy!