Robin Sloan

The style hive-​​mind

Last week I posed a few ques­tions to Twit­ter re: tai­lors, shirts, and ties. Total suc­cess! I got all the advice I needed—and so I thought I’d reca­pit­u­late what I learned:

• For tai­lor­ing, go to San Fran­cisco Tai­lors, next to Neiman Mar­cus on Geary (thx @EC) or David’s in the Flood Build­ing (thx @hollybrick).
• Mul­ti­ple strong rec­om­men­da­tions for Ted Baker across the board: suits, shirts, ties.
• Sev­eral men­tions of Barney’s Co-op—notable to me because I did not know Barney’s Co-​​op was, like, a thing. Nice ties.
• Sev­eral peo­ple also rec­om­mended Thomas Pink for ties.
• Also, pos­si­bly the oppo­site of Thomas Pink: Cyberop­tix Tie Lab on Etsy. (Thx, @LauraGlu and @mthomps.)
• Black­bird Bal­lard is inter­est­ing. (Thx @kenbaumann.)
• Was also reminded of Jeremy’s, the place at the mouth of South Park here in San Fran­cisco that I have always found com­pletely baf­fling. I just can never fig­ure out exactly what it is. But: appar­ently they’ve often got great shirts and ties. (Thx again @EC.)
• Indochino looks pretty inter­est­ing. (Thx @mthomps.)
• Reiss got a super-​​strong rec­om­men­da­tion from one of the best-​​dressed peo­ple I know. There’s one in the West­field Center.

In par­tic­u­lar I was glad to be reminded that Jeremy’s exists, as it is a) sort of a weird hid­den gem, b) close to my office, and c) not a huge depart­ment store. Prob­a­bly bears swoop­ing through every cou­ple of months.

A party and a PDF

On the heels of an absolutely fan­tas­tic book release party here in San Fran­cisco, here’s the dig­i­tal ver­sion of Annabel Scheme for every­one to down­load, share, and transform.

More on the party soon—there’s lots to say! But here’s just a glimpse to start. All snaps are cour­tesy the Shamp­ton­ian Insti­tute.

First, the Com­mit­tee to Find and Res­cue Annabel Scheme:

(My pal Dan made those t-​​shirts. Amazing.)

Here’s the scene, mid-​​reading:

What you can’t see in this photo is the rows of peo­ple sit­ting cross-​​legged on the floor in front—like storytime!

(Looks like a sam­ple sale, right? GAFFTA had been trans­formed into an amaz­ing bou­tique full of algo­rith­mic fashion.)

And you must see this photo—which I don’t know how to describe, but I kinda feel like it should be the cover of the book now, you know?

Finally, ha ha, here’s my new author photo from @mbaratz.

Whew! I’m exhausted, but elated. You’ll under­stand why when you see what comes next. Here’s a lit­tle sense of it from Paul. Hmm…

To every­one who attended: thank you. What a crew! What a delight!