'Pants Optional' Guide Blends Style Tips with Medieval Illustrations
Marissa Brassfield — January 24, 2009 — Art & Design
References: yourpsychogirlfriend & neatorama
Kasey McMahon's 'Pants Optional: A Relatively Civilized Fashion Primer for the Well-Clad' pairs serious style tips on how to wear pants with 16th-century fashion illustrations. The results are positively hilarious.
Ordinarily, the fashion advice proposed in the third image wouldn't surprise anyone: "Hold on to a few of your favorite outdated pieces. You never know!" However, when it's paired with a sword-wielding gentleman clad in all black staring pensively into the text, the piece becomes an entirely new work of art.
Ordinarily, the fashion advice proposed in the third image wouldn't surprise anyone: "Hold on to a few of your favorite outdated pieces. You never know!" However, when it's paired with a sword-wielding gentleman clad in all black staring pensively into the text, the piece becomes an entirely new work of art.
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