In Between Days
Your Questions Answered
It feels like everybody in New York is cold and waiting for the weather to break. We’re dreaming of a scene, like this Albert York painting. I’m about to head to Spain for another fast (more on that in another newsletter).
I could be writing, but I’d rather answer your questions. So ask me about whatever’s on your mind—not Instagram DMs, which end up in the digital shredder. Hopefully I can help with style, travel, fishing or book recommendations.
Just ask your question in the comments section (not as a response to this email, which happens more often than you’d think).
In anticipation of familiar topics, here are guides for Paris, London and New York. Oh, and Fifty Books You Should Read (That Aren’t Obvious) and the big Japan Guide.
I can’t plan entire trips for you here—so please don’t ask what to do for two weeks in Italy or a complete Kyoto itinerary—but I can try to help with specific advice.
Let’s limit things to one question just for everybody’s sanity.
Hope you’re staying warm,
David
I have no questions that haven’t been answered before. Just thank you for what you do.
This question is decidedly not of the softball variety, but here goes: By its most charitable definition, dressing up and dressing well is a way of honoring those around you. Putting on a tweed jacket shows you respect others enough to put in some effort as you go out in the world. At the other end of the spectrum, it’s nothing but a status-seeking exercise and searching for the rare, out-of-stock Filson tote or deadstock Japanese denim is just a really advanced and subtle form of status display. So how do you keep yourself mentally on the right side of this spectrum?