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The 6′ 1″ Tall Club

By Megan S. on December 7, 2012 3:57 PM

We at Longshot Apparel would like to give a little shout out to all those tall men standing 6′ 1″. If you’re in this club, here’s to you! You stand tall alongside well-dressed men like Channing Tatum,  Bradly Cooper, and Robert  Pattinson.
We appreciate the way these fellas are dressing. There’s nothing like a tall man in a bold, well fitting suit. We hope that all you 6′ 1″ tall club members are out there classing it up like these risk-taking tall men. I think my personal favorite is Bradly Cooper’s purple suit. It takes a real man to wear a color like that.

Also, we should note that two of these three 6′ 1″ tall club members have been deemed People Magazine‘s “Sexiest Man Alive”, Bradly Cooper in 2011 and Channing Tatum in 2012. So we at Longshot say, way to go 6′ 1″ club, you are making the world a more beautiful place one club member at a time. Other tall man clubs are falling woefully behind. For instance, sorry 6′ 3″ tall club, you’ve got John Mayer, and though we like his music, he could use some help on the fashion front. Come on, 6′ 3″ club, get it together. The 6′ 1″ club is really rocking out there. Although, the 6′ 7″ club is pretty high on the awesome ranking because they have James Cromwell, and we just LOVE him.

So, here’s to the gentlemen of the 6′ 1″ club, and here’s hoping the 6′ 3″ club can pull it together to make up for John. We love you all, but the 6′ 1″ club is just doing wonderful things these days.

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Denzel Washington Stands Tall In Poster For Robert Zemeckis’s Flight

By Sally Bjornsen on October 4, 2012 9:37 AM

012-10-03 12:06:42 Author: Sean O’Connell

There are a number of selling points for Flight, which plans to close this year’s New York Film Festival on Sunday evening, Oct. 14. The drama marks Robert Zemeckis’ first return to live-action filmmaking since his brilliant and riveting Cast Away. According to the trailer, it has a pulse-racing aerial sequence that shows a potentially drunken pilot landing a massive passenger jet. But the new poster decides to put the movie’s star Denzel Washington front and center, so people know exactly who they are going to see when Flight opens nationwide on Nov. 2.

Here’s the one-sheet, courtesy of HitFix:

Denzel Washington In Poster for "Flight"

The rain suggests sorrow and gloom. Yet Denzel’s character, the flawed Whip, is looking toward a warm glow. Does that suggest retribution for this persecuted figure?

Buzz slowly has been building around Flight as Oscar hopefuls begin to position themselves around the board. Washington appears to be a major player for a Best Actor nod. He reportedly gives a ferocious performance in Zemeckis’ production. But we’re also hearing that John Goodman’s spectacular in a supporting role, and Zemeckis also has Don Cheadle, Melissa Leo and Bruce Greenwood up his sleeve. Not to mention the effects that are being employed to create the harrowing flight wreck that triggers the plot.

Washington’s likely fantastic. Goodman, Cheadle and the cast should be ridiculously good. But I want to see Zemeckis get back to live-action drama after the animated, mo-cap efforts like The Polar Express and A Christmas Carol. Because if Flight is half as compelling as Contact, Cast Away or theBack to the Future trilogy, we’re in for something special.

 

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Why Nicolas Sarkozy feels ten feet tall

By Sally Bjornsen on January 16, 2012 9:00 PM

People in positions of power feel taller, according to researchers. A series of experiments by American researchers found that there is a relationship between feelings of power and our self-perception of height. According to the research, from Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), in New York, there is a physical experience that goes with feeling powerful.

Professor Jack Goncalo, who led the study, along with Michelle Duguid at Washington University, said the findings now raise a number of questions.

 

Professor Goncalo said: ‘Although a great deal of research has shown that physically imposing individuals are more likely to acquire power, this work is the first to show that the powerful may actually feel taller than they are.

‘Using different manipulations of power and measures of perceived height, we found that people literally perceived themselves as taller when they occupied a more powerful position.

‘Are world leaders less able to feel empathy and relate to the “little people” because they literally feel bigger?

The research involved three experiments, where 266 men and women were assigned a video game avatar as a way of exploring the relationship between the psychological and physical experiences of power.The findings are to be published in an upcoming issue of scientific journal Psychological Science. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084500/Why-Nicolas-Sarkozy-feels-feet-tall-People-positions-power-feel-greater-height.html#ixzz1jgTAGVaH

Standing tall: Researchers found that the powerful, such as French President Nicolas Sarkozy, may actually feel taller than they are
World leaders: Sarkozy with Prime Minister David Cameron. The study found there is a physical experience that goes with feeling powerful
World leaders: Sarkozy with Prime Minister David Cameron. The study found there is a physical experience that goes with feeling powerful ’Do short people attempt to capture power by physically elevating themselves above others? ’Would it be possible to psychologically empower people by giving them an office on the top floor?’

 

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Top 10 unsung essentials for the fashionable tall man

By Sally Bjornsen on December 20, 2011 4:27 PM
Shirts for Tall Men

Longshot Shirts for Tall Men

There are well-known accoutrements with which every fashionable, tall man is familiar, but what of the lesser-known but equally important accessories that most of us take for granted?

Tall men know about quality materials and well-made shirts and silk neckties and properly pressed wool suits, but these obvious items would not shine as bright if the less attention-grabbing essentials were not around to give a man his supporting cast.

Here, then, are the top 10 unsung, can’t-do-without items in tall men’s fashion:

10 The back loop on the tie

Smooth lines are strongly desired and no look is smooth if the short end of the necktie is peeking out from behind the fat end.

9 The tie clip

A classic piece of utilitarian, craftsmanship at its finest. It is fashion at its most dignified Mad Men best.

8 The collar stays

The true hero of a quality shirt is not that it has French cuffs or even that it is made of 100 per cent cotton. The real reason a shirt looks good is because of the collar stays, which are the short, plastic tabs that should always be placed in the tips of the collar. These stays are what keep a collar stiff, which is a tough thing to maintain during the life of a dress shirt.

7 Polished dress shoes (and laces)

This is the most basic of fashion requirements. All men have dress shoes and all men must take the time to care for them. I’m suggesting 10 minutes every two weeks.

6 Pocket square

Talk about an item that can set you off from the rest of the crowd. A white pocket square that shows itself just a half-inch above the jacket breast pocket is elegant.

5 The bow tie

Granted, not everyone can pull off the dickey bow. But for the gentleman who can (think Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee in All the President’s Men or Winston Churchill), the bow tie is another weapon in a man’s arsenal in his fight against mediocrity.

4 The handkerchief

Pull out a clean one of these when a woman is in distress and watch your world change.

3 Cuff links

Nothing else says more about a man’s personality than the cufflinks he wears.

2 Dry cleaning and pressing

Having your suit cleaned and pressed so it looks and smells fresh is important to keep you at your best.

1 Top shirt button

And the number one unsung, can’t-do-without item in men’s fashion is a top button on your shirt – so you can do it up when you’re wearing a necktie. We cannot all look like Robert Downey Jr since he has become Ironman. He has perfected the rakish look and it suits him. But for the non-superheroes among us, we must wear our own suits properly.

 

Michael Jabri-Pickett is the news editor at The National. Contact him at mjp@thenational.ae

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Mixing and Matching Patterns

By Sally Bjornsen on December 13, 2011 9:33 PM

Mixing and Matching Patterns

The general rule to mixing and matching patterns is to have each pattern the same size. When wearing all the same pattern, they should gradually go from big to small. If everything is the same size, it makes the outfit look too busy, which in turn, makes it difficult to focus on one item.

For example, a windowpane suit will have the biggest windowpanes, the shirt on the other hand, will have smaller panes. To top it off, the tie’s print should be smaller than the shirt. Mixing different patterns can be tricky and can easily be messed up.

The suit doesn’t always have to be the largest, it can be the tie or the shirt sometimes. It’s all about creating different proportions that make everything work.

 

 

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“Manity” Sizing

By Sally Bjornsen on December 13, 2011 11:39 AM

Sizing them up ... Menswear retailer Robby Ingham, in his Paddington store, says that men are as vain as women when it comes to size.

Sizing them up … Menswear retailer Robby Ingham, in his Paddington store, says that men are as vain as women when it comes to size. Photo: Ben Rushton Blokes may be just as vulnerable as women to fashion brands attempting to assuage the ”does my bum look big in this?” problem.

Once the preserve of female clothing only, the concept of vanity sizing, by which manufacturers underestimate the true size of their clothing to flatter consumers, is spreading to the racks and change rooms of men’s fashion stores.

The practice has been dubbed ”manity sizing” by London’s Daily Telegraph, which found trousers on sale at a range of British chain stores were more generous in their actual waist measurements than the sizing on their swing tags. The findings were backed by research from market analyst Mintel which suggested the number of men who report their fit size varying between stores has doubled in the past six years.

The director of clothes label Farage, Joe Farage, said ”manity” sizing was also occurring in Australia. ”Size variances are definitely apparent here,” Mr Farage said. ”Some brands may tend to size on the small side just to make people feel good … but in general it’s more about the variance in what the brands’ demographics are.”

A fashion label with a younger, slimmer customer may size its waistlines slightly smaller than the standard, while a brand such as Farage with a core customer base of businessmen would generally run more true to actual size. ”We dress real men so our 34 is a real 34 and our 32 is a real 32,” he said.

”The likes of a Calibre, I imagine they would be on the slimmer side because their guys tend to be a bit slimmer and their demographic is more like that.” Calibre director Gary Zecevic confirmed ”our cuts are very slim because that is what our customer wants” but said, ”we are very standard in our measurements in sizing so our customer knows what to expect”.

”Manity” sizing is more common at a chain brand than exclusive designer label. ”If I try on a Dolce & Gabbana jacket I could be an Italian 52 which is equivalent to our 42 here, but then I could go to Country Road and be a 40,” Mr Farage said.

Robby Ingham, who owns the Robby Ingham menswear and womenswear store in Paddington, agreed such sizing variations were becoming increasingly common. ”For men it’s the same as women’s sizes, some brands make them a little bigger and some brands make them a little smaller,” Mr Ingham said. ”If you go to Gap or Country Road you’d definitely find their brands are larger than [designer sizes],” he said.

Despite the discrepancies in sizing, Mr Ingham said most men wanted the same thing.”Men basically are as vain as women when it comes to size,” Mr Ingham said. ”Guys will swear they’re a 32 when you know they’re not. ”They want to be bigger around the chest but not around the waist.”

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/style/tell-me-sweet-little-lies–vanity-sizing-for-blokes-is-here-20110905-1ju9x.html#ixzz1XEnB4Fqn

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Why We Love Tall Men, From Malcolm Galdwell’s Blink

By Sally Bjornsen on December 7, 2011 5:57 PM
This excerpt is from the part of “Blink” where Malcom Gladwell talks about the things that throw off our powers of rapid cognition. “Unconscious prejudice.” That’s the kind of prejudice that you have that you aren’t aware of, that affects the kinds of impressions and conclusions that you reach automatically, without thinking.

On a conscious level, I’m sure that all of us don’t think that we treat tall people any differently from short people. But there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that height–particularly in men–does trigger a certain set of very positive, unconscious associations.

Gladwell polled about half of the companies on the Fortune 500 list–the largest corporations in the United States–asking each company questions about its CEO. The heads of big companies are, as I’m sure comes as no surprise to anyone, overwhelmingly white men, which undoubtedly reflects some kind of implicit bias. But they are also virtually all tall: In his sample, Gladwell found that on average CEOs were just a shade under six feet. Given that the average American male is 5’9″ that means that CEOs, as a group, have about three inches on the rest of their sex. But this statistic actually understates matters. In the U.S. population, about 14.5 percent of all men are six feet or over. Among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, that number is 58 percent. Even more strikingly, in the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are 6’2″ or taller. Among my CEO sample, 30 percent were 6’2″ or taller. So today, when boards of directors look for people with the necessary experience to be candidates for top positions, they can argue somewhat plausibly that there aren’t a lot of women and minorities in the executive pipeline. But this is simply not true of short people. It is possible to staff a company entirely with white males, but it is not possible to staff a company without short people: there simply aren’t enough tall people to go around. Yet none of those short people ever seem to make it into the executive suite. Of the tens of millions of American men below 5’6″, a grand total of ten–in my sample–have reached the level of CEO, which says that being short is probably as much, or more, of a handicap to corporate success as being a woman or an African-American.

Most of us, in ways that we are not entirely aware of, automatically associate leadership ability with imposing physical stature. We have a sense, in our minds, of what a leader is supposed to look like, and that stereotype is so powerful that when someone fits it, we simply become blind to other considerations. And this isn’t confined to the corporate suite. Not long ago, researchers went back and analyzed the data from four large research studies, that had followed thousands of people from birth to adulthood, and calculated that when corrected for variables like age and gender and weight, an inch of height is worth $789 a year in salary. That means that a person who is six feet tall, but who is otherwise identical to someone who is five foot five, will make on average $5,525 more per year. As Timothy Judge, one of the authors of the study, points out: “If you take this over the course of a 30-year career and compound it, we’re talking about a tall person enjoying literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of earnings advantage.” Have you ever wondered why so many mediocrities find their way into positions of authority in companies and organizations? It’s because when it comes to even the most important positions, we think that our selection decisions are a good deal more rational than they actually are. We see a tall person, and we swoon.

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Taller People Are Happier, Especially if They are Male

By Sally Bjornsen on December 5, 2011 3:02 PM

Catherine Rampell from the NYtimes recently wrote an article on the happiest person in America.  According to her findings taller people are happier, especially if they are male. How much happier? Here are two charts showing the typical levels of well-being in 2010 for men of various heights, and then for women of various heights:

Catherine Rampell’s research shows that taller people are happier, specially if they are male. The taller men are, generally speaking, the happier they are. (Remember, as always, correlation is not causation.)

On the other hand, the connection between height and happiness is less predictable for women. Well-being levels for the very tallest women are higher than they are for the very shortest women, but well-being levels bounce around quite a lot in between, and actually seem to trend downward beyond a certain height.

I’ll let the sociobiologists among you out there theorize about why.

 

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How Tall Are Our World Leaders?

By Sally Bjornsen on November 18, 2011 2:12 PM

 

How Tall are Our World Leaders?

How Tall are Our World Leaders?

How tall are our world leaders?  In the United States we like ‘em big just like our houses and our meals. Historically most of the US presidents over the past 100 years have been at least 6′ tall. Apparently size doesn’t really matter in other countries.

In a world where a carefully manipulated image (and sometimes stack heels) are essential, definitive vital statistics can be hard to come by. The heights shown here are those most commonly recorded for each world leader.

- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, for example, is variously reported as being between 5’2″ and 5’4″ tall.

- Napoleon’s height was once commonly given as 5’2″, but many historians have now credited him with another 4 inches owing to a miscalculation between French and English units of measurement.

Touchy subject
President Sarkozy visited the Faurecia factory in Caligny in Normandy, northern France, on Thursday last week as part of a drive to defend his management of the economy.

After a tour of the plant, he addressed factory employees while standing in front of a group of workers, who were all about his own height or shorter.

The president’s wife often dons flats in the presence of her husband

In a subsequent TV report by Belgian network RTBF, an unnamed employee confirmed she had been chosen to share the stage with President Sarkozy because she was no bigger than him.

Faurecia’s management released a statement on Monday to “deny the rumours that the Elysee had made any ‘special requests’ as regards the staff present during the president’s speech”, reported French news agency AFP.

But French websites Le Post and Rue89 have since quoted union representatives at the plant, some of them named, as confirming that height criteria for staff to appear with Mr Sarkozy had been received by the management.

President Sarkozy is reported to be extremely touchy about his height, which is believed to be about 5ft 5in or 5ft 6in (165-168 cm).

He has previously been pictured wearing shoes with a substantial heel and giving speeches standing on hidden platforms.

The French media have also previously noted the propensity of Mr Sarkozy’s wife, the former model Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, to don flat shoes when in the presence of her husband.

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Big and Tall Mens Clothing

By Sally Bjornsen on November 16, 2011 11:03 AM

Today the term “Big and Tall Mens Clothing” does not carry the stigma that it once did.   One reason for the change is due to the classification of clothing size, and now many big and tall sizes include sizes that used to be considered regular sizes, like tall sizes.  Many men “globally” are on the smaller side, and it seems as though manufacturers as a whole are sizing to that demographic.  Some brands size their XLs like larges. Here are some hints to help you look your best in big and tall men’s clothing.

Every big and tall mens clothing brand sizes their apparel differently.  What is a 1X to one brand could easily be a 3X in another.  What is considered a tall size may only fit arms as long as 35″.  A few things to keep in mind when looking at sizing charts for big and tall men’s clothing.  Know your arm length (measured from the middle of your upper back at the base of your neck all the way down to your wrist).  Know your chest size, this is usually the same as your typical jacket size.  Know your inseam.  On most clothing websites these measurements are listed.  Do not pay attention to what the brand calls a “long or a tall,”  instead look at their specific specs to find the shirt or pant that will ultimately fit your body.

Find a fabric that breathes but does not flow, we prefer 100% cottong. It might initially sound like a good idea to wear shirts that flow. They breathe well, let air circulate on your skin and generally feel better to the touch. The thing about these fabrics is they tend to make you look much larger and sometimes sloppier than you really are.

Try to choose solid colors or alternative patterns if you can. Shop online for a greater selection.  Online stores such as Longshot Apparel offer a wide range of clothing styles and varieties that can be great, even if you don’t always get the chance to try them on before you buy.  A specific sizing tool helps to determine what size would best fit you.  And if it is still unclear the owner will be happy to help you make the right choices.

When you shop at Longshot Apparel, you have the freedom to shop at your leisure without worrying about crowded stores, pushy sales people or long checkout queues. Longshot Apparel has a very liberal return policy so if you find that the clothes you ordered do not fit you can simply send them back for an exchange or a refund.

Big and tall men’s clothing offers you so many choices that it’s more like fun than a chore, especially when you keep these tips in mind. Choosing the right clothes can be easy, regardless of what size you wear. The trick is to look for clothing that helps to flatter your shape and then build onto your wardrobe using styles that match. There are so many designers offering big and tall mens’ clothing that your choices are increasing every day. Why not go shopping and try some of the great styles available for yourself? www.longshotapparel.com.

 

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