The Choosy Beggar

Esquire lists 7 key boxes to check off before pulling the trigger on your next suit purchase:

1. Shoulder pads end with your shoulders.

2. Your flat hand should slip easily into your suit under the lapels when the top (or middle) button is fastened. If you put a fist in, the suit should pull at the button.

3. The top button of a two-button suit — or the middle button of a three-button suit — should not fall below your navel.

4. With your arms at your sides, your knuckles should be even with the bottom of your jacket.

5. Jacket sleeves should fall where the base of your thumb meets your wrist.

6. Between a quarter and a half inch of shirt cuff should be visible.

7. One inch of break.

Today through Thursday, stock up on play clothes from Lower East Side boutique Live Fast for 20% off most stock, including existing sale items. [Racked]

The Ed Hardy garb these guys carry is ridiculous, but, on the bright side, note the similarity between Live Fast’s ’69 Turbo Tortoise‘s for $20 (above), and Oliver Goldsmith‘s highly-coveted Carl‘s, which retail for over $350 (below):

Live Fast – 57 Clinton St between Stanton & Rivington – 212-228-2283 – Map

This animated sequence, based on the classic Chinese novel, “Journey to the West,” was produced by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, a.k.a., the Gorillaz, to introduce coverage of the Olympic Games on BBC Sport.

Wondering where you and your pal can go after work Wednesday to grab a drink, and impress a few women with your shopping prowess?

Try the Gen Art Shopping Event where you can shop Barking Irons and Hyden Yoo at discounted prices in between Bailey’s frozen cocktails and massages courtesy of The Chopra Center & Spa. [Refinery29] Order your tickets online.

Gen Art Shop NYC – Metropolitan Pavilion – 125 West 18th St between 6th and 7th – Map

Hypebeast draws our attention to the Vans slip-on that thinks its better than all the other Vans slip-ons. [Hypebeast]

Part preppy boat shoe, the so-called Lacey’s rear features lacing that wraps around its heel.

At just $45, we’re sold, yet Vans.com seems to be stocking every style of Lacey — including the ones below — except the black ones above.

Also worth a gander is this more fully developed boat-shoe, named the Zapato del Barco, for $60: