M. Evan Wolkenstein

Before David Letterman, there was THE Letterman. My own history with varsity style involves a lot of very un-varsity moments. I would eventually experience great disappointment in discovering that the only part of this movie that applied to my freshman year at college was the nerdiness. First, when I was a little kid, there was varsity-superhero Letter Man, a favorite regular on the PBS show, Electric Company. His sport: ripping the letter from his sweater and applying it to

“Put a sweater on, your mother’s cold.” Once upon a time, a sweater was something I might don, at my mother’s behest, only because it was drafty in the living room, and no one important was going to see me in it. The warm garment of choice was a hoodie sweatshirt. Sweaters were for, well, dorks. Then, five years ago, I was in Berlin, at one of the most infamous nightclubs in Europe. And lest you think I’m boasting, let me clarify: the bouncers at the door of this exclusive cl

Cozy top. Cold toes. Two equal and opposite rules apply in all areas of the aesthetic. Observe the categories. Mash up the categories. Wisconsin Captiol Building (Madison) Observes the Categories Part of what makes this building attractive to the eye, for example, is the purity of the design. To a student of architecture, sure, the neoclassical design contains elements of various historical periods. But to my rather untrained eye,  the constancy, the balance, and the univocal