Via the Pajamas motherblog and TigerHawk, SportsProf has a great post on the joys of old L.L. Bean duds. I'll second that emotion--somehow, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, my mom got stuck on L.L. Bean for much of her Christmas shopping; I still have L.L. Bean clothes from that era that hold up astonishingly well. Come to think of it--including the plaid button-down shirt I'm wearing as I type this!

It also highlights one of the rules of menswear: if you avoid the latest outfits touted by GQ and other mens' magazines, you'll save a ton of money, by avoiding styles that rapidly go out of fashion.