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On the heels of the last shirt post, here is more proof of the ever-evolving resonance of Louis Vuitton in China.  One almost knew that Papa Smurf would meet the monogram.

Here’s a piece in which I advise Beijing residents on where to get the right men’s items that appeared a while back.  Of course the best option remains abroad.

If you’re not capable of doing it, you probably aren’t stylish enough to live in Beijing.

Obviously this is all more wishful thinking than anything to do with reality.  This summer has not been the very worst, but I am still quite desperate for it to end, probably because I want to get a tweedy suit in this sort of brown and mix it with a patterned shirt.  Very nice!

The style of this old man in Luoyang might blow away anything that has appeared on stylites – or perhaps anything on any street style blog in the world.  He’s a sort of modern day Jiang Ziya, who was a sort of proto-Zhuge Liang that helped build the Zhou Dynasty.

One good thing about being in Beijing for so long is that I can really watch people change and form relationships with the people I photograph. Cecaa is one of the more stylish people in the city. Here he is four-and-a-half years.

This is four months old, but I still want to put up these photos. I have a few extremely good excuses for the delay and the relative lack of activity on Stylites. Those who know me, know what I mean.

Anyway, in the next few posts will be some of my photos from the second Beijing Vintage Ride, which occurred back in late March. I have been thinking about bicycling a lot recently, because it is one of my ambitions to make hotels in Beijing more bike friendly by convincing them to put racks in prominent locations out front. I am hoping to start with the Four Seasons Hotel Beijing.

Here’s more from the China Daily.

Home of Beijing’s fashion set, Cicada Ultralounge in North Village of Sanlitun is now the exclusive point in town to pick up a copy of The HUB x Blender magazine. Get your copy there.

SHORTS ALERT! Principle M Talk Nights Hosted Jirah for a lecture on good posture (nothing worst than a dapper man with a slouchy back, right?). Yet this event consolidated the fact that wearing bermuda shorts ( well above the knee) with either sandals, loafers or classic lace ups and socks is perfectly fine. Beijing has been brutally hot these past days and giving one’s legs a bit of a breeze does make a difference. Justin, Co-founder of Principle M is taking  the heat head on with an ultra loose woven wool summer Capri Blazer jacket. I also noted and very much liked, 宋涛‘s white look, he managed a very clever heat beating way to wear an ultra light chiffon blazed jacket and white jersey low neck T-shirt.

Starry (left), Chef of Chi restaurant on 五道营胡同 trained as a fashion designer at Trent University in the UK, which probably goes a long way to explain his hipster looks ( Ben Sherman Tee Shirt and NB trainers) Yet it is his floppy black straw hat which caught my eye; I put a few kuais on this trends becoming big this summer. OuyiHui (right) is a photographer who happens to use the same cultish street camera Ricoh GR as your humble servant writing these words just acquired yesterday to give you better images to browse over. ENJOY