Fashion Monday with JJ Lee

Q.  I like French cuff shirts, but how many pairs of cufflinks should you have and what are some affordable options? I don’t necessarily want to drop several hundred dollars on multiple sets, but get tired of using the same one all the time. — Sean, Toronto Today I took a nuts-and-bolts approach to collecting compelling cufflinks in The Vancouver Sun .

(NOTE THIS IS A RE-POST FROM 2008 from my appearance on CBC Radio with host Stephen Quinn) Fashion Olympics - forget medal counts, who are the best dressed? Canada has yet to win a medal in Beijing but who cares? A opening ceremony fashion Q & A with JJ Lee... Q. You've decided to focus on the Opening Ceremonies. What are you looking for when it comes to judging a country's fashion acumen during the parade of nations? It's not easy to compare what the countries are wearing -- though I think it's patently obvious to anyone when it comes to figuring out who looks good and who looks bad. The reason why it's hard is because the delegate nations pick clothes for different reasons. Generally, there were three genres of clothes at the opening. 1. National costume - this is where athletes are forced to wear clothes as if it were multicultural day at their local high school. 2. Athletic wear - this is where countries dress as if they are ready to take the ...

Let me introduce you to my Olympic-sized alter-ego gold medal snark @chic_fatigue  http://twitter.com/chic_fatigue It, I call it It, will be tweeting about the fashions seen during the Opening Ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympics.