“[L]iving within your means is the most liberating stance you can take in the evolution of your style, but to live within your means doesn't mean settling for what is cheapest, it means having less but having better. A single great cigar, once a month, with one great meal is better than a hundred cheap smokes. Likewise with clothing, to be 'cheap' often does you more disservice in the way you treat your own things. If you have two great pairs of shoes and three well cut suits, all of which you treat with something like reverence for the joy they bring you to wear, you will always look sharp. So, for myself at least, after many years dealing with all things classic menswear, I have come to this conclusion - cheap is always just cheap. Less, but better, is the path of the quality man.”
— Ethan Newton on valueWonderful
I know you feel you don’t belong here
au contraire my troubled friend you do
better, worse, different or the same
no one belongs here more than you
You say you’re stupid, you don’t fit in
stupid is a hurtful word that only lies
I see value, a friend worth keeping
you’ll see it too if you open your eyes
You feel broken, but that can change
set your gaze each dawn upon the sun
say it, believe it, and it will prove true
you’re every bit as wonderful as anyone