Too Pretty For You

pulling it off again.

Here are a couple more beautiful boys working it on the cover of Popeye.

For neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere Accident, but the hand is ever guided on by mysterious operations of the mind. In all his Modes, and habilatory endeavors, an Architectural Idea will be found lurking; his Body and the Cloth are the site and materials whereon and whereby his beautified edifice, of a Person, is to be built.

-- Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus I:v

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Yeah, OK.

continuing the dangling cigar/ette as prop

More perfection from Jacques Dutronc. OK Patron (1974).

1) Undone double breasted jacket
2) contrasting buttons on the shirt
3) precise pant-length
4) sassy brown pointy shoes breaking up the black suit

But, like a generous, creative enthusiast, he fearlessly makes his Idea an Action; shows himself in peculiar guise to mankind; walks forth, a witness and living Martyr to the eternal worth of Clothes.

-- Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus I:v

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