Whoo there was a brief period of no posting there. Apologies. We lead busy lives (read: easily distracted). We have a fair bit to share but I’ll start the ball rolling with a fashion blog I’ve been hooked on recently. Enter Definitive Touch. Focusing primarily on men’s fashion, this blog continues to offer up designers and brands that walk the line of professional yet fun, modest but not boring. I am particularly fond of the Ladies Touch section where you get a critical dissection of some featured outfits. Or why not visit the Lifestyles section for some quick interviews with some interesting innovators. Okay that was a quick one and next time I promise to have somethin’ for the ladies.

If you haven’t already guessed, I have an affinity for amusing alliteration. But this post not about me. In fact it’s the opposite! It’s about… others… and their… style.  The whole concept of snappin’ digi-photos of hip kids and their street fashion is not particularly new.  I believe it would take something close to like a caj-illion years to list all of the blogs out there covering this field.  What is a mite new is finding myself drawn in as if by some sort of indie-couture tractor beam.

I don’t feel I particularly missed my calling as a designer, model or fashionista (sounds like a well dressed uprising!).  Perhaps these sites just speak to my naturally voyeuristic tendencies.  I’m not talking a creepy George McFly hanging out in a tree watching his future wife get undressed before his time traveling son hits him with a car sort of voyeurism.  I mean more of a “Hey people are awesome!  Look at them being awesome!” kinda voyeurism.  Is there a difference?  I’m not entirely sure. My mind inevitably moves on to musing about the nature of their underwear before I can answer that question.

Now don’t be so quick to judge.  This is the age of the internet dang-it!  An age which demands we all point our collective peepers outward and bask in each others… everything.  It’s from this basking that we arrive in a graceful boomerang-like manner, to the topic which started all of this; the street fashion blog.  What could we call this trend?  Nu-stalking?  Paparazzi for the under-famed? Oooh the anti-pop-arrazzi!  I feel things will get a little too portmanteau if I keep this up.

To gain a better understanding of what I’m attempting to touch on here, I recommend you pop your interwebbin’ head in at StyleClicker.  This site focuses primarily on the area of the world known as Munich.  What I love is that you get a healthy mix of everything from the casual, the formal, and the I wouldn’t wear it but way to be bold fellow humanaught.  Also this site has a pretty solid international blog roll if you want to get the four-one-one on other cities.

Once upon a time Calgary had their own steet style site… Company of Wolves, I believe… which appears to be defunct.  If you have any suggestions on where I can stalk individuals within my own city… please let me know.