{"id":1566,"date":"2013-05-28T10:19:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T17:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2013-05-28T10:19:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T17:19:45","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s3e28-aesthetic-moments-with-jj-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1566","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S3E28: Aesthetic Moments with JJ Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1567\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"jjlee\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/jjlee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Vancouver&#8217;s Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden with <a href=\"http:\/\/jj-lee.com\/\">JJ Lee<\/a>, menswear writer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/ideas\/episodes\/2012\/02\/20\/the-measure-of-a-man\/\">broadcaster<\/a>, and author of <em>The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit<\/em>. They discuss where to buy pocket squares in Vancouver (and whether to just have your kids make some); what to wear during the city&#8217;s &#8220;false start summer&#8221;; his own uses of color, and his gradual approach toward &#8220;weird clothes&#8221;; our coming age of wide-open, postmodern suit-wearing, a recovery from men getting stupid about dressing in the sixties and seventies; his own early dislike of suits, when they to him represented all that went wrong in society; his father&#8217;s quick rise, painful fall, and the undiagnosed, self-medicated depression that laid under it; his realization that people are highly aesthetic beings, always creating aesthetic moments; the adoption of tragic versus comic narratives, and which one led his father to stop dressing well; the way precision has replaced instinct for well-dressed men; Montreal and its status as Canada&#8217;s style capital; his favorable impression of Toronto&#8217;s dress, textbook though it may be; Vancouver&#8217;s athleticism-influenced casualness and its limitations; how he starts conversations with clothes, even in New York; the lie behind the idea of &#8220;truth&#8221; in dress; how men now wear suits, but often defensively, out of fear; the decline of Chinatown tailoring culture; the way men today don&#8217;t quite know how to be in a tailor shop, never having had that sort of interaction before; and his current project of essays on fatherhood, and the importance of leaving a legacy of ideas for his sons.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s3e28-aesthetic-moments-with-jj-lee\">Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s3e28-aesthetic-moments-with-jj-lee\">\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Vancouver&#8217;s Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden with JJ Lee, menswear writer, broadcaster, and author of The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit. 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