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Esquire magazine judges and some people on the internet agree: recent Columbia grad Dan Trepanier, CC ’09, is the “Best Dressed Real Man in America” for 2009. The former basketball team guard was awarded the title on this morning’s Today show, and will receive such goodies as “a $10,000 wardrobe from Kenneth Cole and Esquire, a one-year supply of Nivea for Men products, [and] an IWC watch.” Trepanier made it to the final as the internet voters’ “fan favorite.”
“Dan’s style is instantly recognizable as American,” Esquire fashion director Nick Sullivan told, um, Esquire, “but it’s modern and individual and it avoids the more predictable preppy combinations.” Trepanier also dispenses fashion advice over at his blog, which we really do recommend to anyone who enjoys the fine arts of preppiness.
Update: Today show video here.
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@too many layers Absolutely no one has congratulated me on winning Clothed magazine’s “Most Dressed Man of 2009”
@Okkkk Yeah I bet you there are a million better dressed people than this guy. Anyone who self submits an application for best man in America is a BIG ass tool. The people who voted for him are probably tools too
@Waring Hudsucker A+ Hudsucker Proxy reference
@... great style but too bad hes a horrible guy
@... he looks like he sits on the board of hudsucker industries by day and moonlights as a shoe salesman by night.
@uhh redundant
@whatever i’m really tired of all these closet homophobes acting like a guy putting on something other than athletic sneakers, cargo pants and a t shirt he got for free at a school event automatically makes him a “hipster” or “tool.” if it’s okay for girls to care about fashion, why can’t men?
p.s. i think i speak for most girls when i say that there is nothing worse than spotting a cute guy only to look down at his feet and see that he’s wearing new balances or something equally horrible with everyday dress
@not homophobic He isn’t a tool because he is well-dressed. He’s a tool for self-submitting an application to Esquire, of all places, claiming to be “the best-dressed real man in the world”. Who even does that?
@... i’m pretty sure he wants a career in fashion… applying for this in esquire is like someone applying to an internship… this gives him publicity and could result in him making good contacts furthering his career
if you think he is a tool for submitting that application, then to be logically consistent, you should say that anybody doing something to further their career makes them a tool
@... who the fuck are you? get the fuck off my alias you unimaginative sorry piece of shit.
@nah there are billions of things worse than that, such as most things that are actually bad things rather than a judgment on the aesthetics of someone’s footwear.
@sorry watch out guys, hyperbole police!
@Except His style isn’t preppy at all. It’s fashionable, it’s well-dressed, it’s formal, but that’s not preppy.
http://unforseeable.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/2003_nov_preppy.jpg
That’s preppy.
@wellllll this guy looks like a big fuccccccccccking tool. At least he’s a good looking tool tho so he’s got that atleast going for him. What sucks big time is if youre an ugly tool cough George krebs cough cough
@see this haha that asian was a joke
@stfu racist ass bastard. was it so hard to say asian guy, asian man, asian dude? we don’t begin sentences by saying “that white… that black… or that mexican”. stupid ass.
@i'm actually really excited about this. especially because his competitors were highly mediocre and it would have been ridiculous if he lost.
@word http://www.theonion.com/content/node/47189
@awesome! dan is a great guy! we’ll miss him on campus!
@um.... just about as comfortable as your d*** in really tight pants?
@um... converse are comfortable!!!
@word maybe compared to dress shoes, but compared to athletic shoes with actual support, something like new balance is always gonna be more comfortable. despite the marketing converse are terrible if you’re actually going to move around in them.
@but athletic shoes are ugly….
@Surfin' UWS Yes and they’re also a sign of your social nonchalance and uniqueness in a world of conformist uni-colored footwear.
@You, sir, are a dumbass. Pray tell, what do YOU wear that conforms so little to societal norms? I’m just DYING to know. Really. Perhaps you could start a blog entitled “Fashion for Fucktards” where you can preach to the world all of your views on acceptable and unacceptable fashion. I’d read it gladly.
@Surfin' UWS Well, prepiness is often associated with Princeton-level douchebaggery, as is spending ridiculously large sums of money on clothes for a male.
Good for him. If you’re into that, it’s a pretty distinguished title- as is the prize. No need to hate, folks. Quiet disdain will do.
Now hipsters however;
– American Apparel is not a lifestyle.
– There’s no such thing as an ironic mustache.
– Vintage priced at $80 is not vintage.
– Converses aren’t comfortable.
Signed: Surfin’ UWS, signing in for the new year, bitches!
@yay! dan’s the man!
@CC12 What a tool.
@Really? He’s a tool for being well-dressed? I sense a tad of bitterness here…