Total price, $890.

Sounds like nerd boyfriend has a pretty deep wallet.

(Compare to Lands’ End, where you can get the same outfit for $305–and $200 of that is the blazer, which you can probably get cheaper somewhere else).

Which, yes, includes a whole bunch of people who aren’t any sort of nerd.

I saw Andrew W.K. on the list and thought the listing would be about his all white look, but suprise!
http://nerdboyfriend.com/2009/02/andrew-wk/
He is such a total hottie.

@14: you can achieve this look for far less than $600 per outfit. The most expensive part of that outfit would probably be the sport coat. I think you can pick up a nice one at JC Penney for under $100. You might even find a good one at a secondhand shop, if you’re lucky. The rest of that stuff can be bought almost anywhere. It’s really just the coat and the shoes that will cost the most. You could probably do it all, head to toe, for under $200 if you’re really frugal. Plus, remember that the coat, shoes and belt can go with other outfits, which will stretch your money even further.

Anyway, as with any sense of style, it’s not the macro but the micro – i.e. not the clothes as such but the details that do it, surely?

So for the authentic ’1990s Microsoft programmer’ look, you need in addition to the chinos and shirt, a row of pens and electrical screwdrivers in the top pocket of the shirt and ‘utility belt’ for your mobile (or now, Windows7 smartphone).

Personally, I stick with my own personal cross between 1950s college professor and 1960s mod with a bit of Victorian dandy thrown in for light relief. Just don’t call it ‘steampunk’ or I will be forced to beat you to death with my silver-tipped cane or throttle you with my watch chain…

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=31259710&l=39d6e8f39e&id=1581442255

But he was a bad ass. He led an amazing life.

When not climbing mountains like an eagle to win the toughest cycle races in the world, he’d spend his spare time in prison camps when his career was interrupted by world war two and his batallion was captured in North Africa by the British.

When released from the detainment camp, he found a bike and rode home to pick up where he left off winning races where the margin of victory didn’t need a stopwatch, the church tower would do to count the ten, twenty or more minutes until the second place rider would arrive.

An athiest, an anarchist who had a notorious affair with a mystery woman Coppi was cannonized by his contrymen and there is a church honouring him and other cyclists on a hill above Lake Como.

“A pretty brilliant guy, once you got past the bullshit.”