This is a car coat from J L Powell USA - they make some fab outdoor clothes. I found out about them from Garden and Gun magazine - again a favourite USA thing that I like

OK,

I've had it though - when I look at clothes nowadays, I have a problem.  Whenever I think 'Ok I'm going to start dressing well'  I have two things happen 1. I want to start dressing cooler, 2. I want to start dressing better 3. I want to start wearing expensive clothes.

Some things keep getting in the way though.  When I try to do all together, I do less of 1. some of 2 in some people's eyes, and 3. seems impossible because I don't really like what I'm trying on.

My question is - how the hell do you dress well without lookg like some sort of spod?

There seems to be only one trend for the 'not a teenager, not a 20 something clubber, and not an old man' and that is the stuff you see everywhere - meaning casual but opinionless, innoffessive except in its sickening adherence to inoffesiveness, and quite frankly boring.

I'm sick of articles telling me that I'll look great and successful as long as I dress like someone with a freakish obsession with pastels whose mum goes to Chanel on the way to a polo match.  That's not really robust enough for me, or something I really want to be seen aspiring to.

Neither do I want to look like this:   

But I do think Alice looks better than your average Ralph Loren model .. ew...