Women, how can they be so…..

Women

We have a great guest post today, from a fellow blogger that I got to meet by reading a guest post he did over at Blog With Wings. Boy he gets around!! His name is Garret, and lives in the cold frozen wilderness of Northern Ontario, Canada. He has an awesome blog – Need to [...]

The Best tribute to MJ and you thought we forgot.

This goes out to all you Michael Jackson fans and we finally dug up the best tribute you won’t find on MTV or The Grammys. Our gift to all you crazy kids.

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Guys Who Just Can’t Pick Up Girls

From a guys point of view, many if not most, women can’t perceive why after leaving hints to a guy, that they don’t pick up on them and approach them. “Jeesh all he had to do is come over and start talking and I would have definitely gone out with him, or even had made out with him”.
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Napoleon Hill “Positive Mental Attitude” The First 3 Of 17 Principles

Napoleon Hill talks about the wisdom the billionaire Andrew Carnegie shared with him some hundred years ago. Before we start the 17 Principles, Mr Hill started it all off by first meeting with Andrew Carnegie.

1 The Secret is based on Napoleon’s principles.
This is “The Secret behind the Secret.”

2 This is a message on [...]

Sometime Today….

This is a big day for us here at Man Over Board.  So please excuse us for blowing our horn today.
This will be our first day that two milestones will have been achieved. The first has to due with traffic to our blog. We will have broken the 1000 daily page view hurdle for the [...]

Serious Questions Need Serious Answers

Maintaining a ‘Mans Blog’ comes with many rewards but also risks.  Risks that could lead to embarrassment and or injury. We take our role here at MOB seriously and with due diligence. We tackle every question a man might have, well almost, we can’t give you the winning lotto numbers.
Here at MOB we are fortunate [...]

Has it Been 40 Years Already

Time flies, especially when searching the web and to think 40 years ago we did not have this WWW available to the masses. No Face Book or Google, no Tweets or YouTube. I know many readers out there could not imagine being able to log on, tune in and space out. Yet 40 years ago [...]

MAD MEN IS BACK IN A TWO WEEKS

For those who don’t, nor who could care less, I’m psyched. My fav show is getting ready to hit the small screen on Sunday August 16th on AMC. For those of you that have missed it, I can’t tell you how well this series gives you the feel and texture of what the late sixties [...]

Carolyn Massey SS10 Accessories

A few weeks back now we were fortunate enough to take a sneak peak in to the future as Carolyn Massey let us nosey around her studio whilst drooling over her SS10 collection. Carolyn was inspired by adventure and exploration and this is no more apparent than in the accessories. The talented guys from across the pond at Street Etiqutte recently dropped a nice piece on the necessity of accessories and they certainly are in this collection. Carolyn told us that she had been inspired by her first showing at LFW back in February and expanded her collection, in terms of tshirts as well as additional accessories, for this coming season as a result. As a follow up to the earlier sneak preview post, Carolyn sent through an accessories look book which we had to share with you. Looking through the look book made me dream up expeditions to far away places which certainly beats a grey, Wednesday afternoon in London…

The accessories go so well with the inspiration for the collection, the film the Heroes of Telemark. The film starts Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris and is based on the true story of Norwegian heavy water sabotage in World War two. Carolyn had also been on a camping trip to Dungeness, where she found the experience useful as she was able to realistically think about when and where these garments and accessories could be worn.

I fell head over heels for the chunky, cable knits in Massey’s Aw09 collection and the above table of bold blue knitted creations renewed my love. Carolyn once again worked closely with her knitwear consultant Lynn to create these pieces which looked to be inspired by fishermen and explorers.

The braided pieces are based on ‘Troddels‘. These were traditionally used by the German army (post war) to place with precision the exact whereabouts of soldiers in particular regiments. Also the Japanese craft of Kumihimo was an inspiration for the braiding which featured in the key rings, troddels and belts.

I must confess to being more than a little surprised by the leather spats. So much so in fact that I have only just noticed that I failed to mention them in the first post. I just didn’t expect to see them but of course they make perfect sense given the inspiration and collection as a whole. The time is definitely right to bring back spats! I love the amount of thought and attention to detail Carolyn has put in to this collection and can’t wait to (hopefully) see it on the catwalk in September.