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Who is Mark Webber. He's a self made business executive here to help you
find your success from the New York City projects to the Avenue Montaigne in Paris.
His global success story in the luxury world of fashion is inspiration off.
He's gone from clerk to CEO twice. Mark is classic proof that the American
dream is alive. And well, here's your host of Always in Fashion,
Mark Webber. Mark Webber. I'm going on notice Apple and Spotify have categorized
this show in spite of how hard we try to make it a business show,
in spite of the fact that its background is based on my career in
fashion. Therefore, Always in Fashion, no matter how hard I try to
have made this a business show, we have been categorized as cultural and lifestyle,
and therefore I am going to take poetic license and tonight I'm going to
talk culture and lifestyle. I have to ask you, are you watching what's
going on? Humans? I can't live with them. I can't live without
them. That one sentence should make it clear. While we have to try
and get along, we're so divided now. Don't get me wrong. When
my team's in place, I could care less, But when the fool's rule,
I care. At the same time, I should say, do not
confuse me with someone who gives you, because by and large I don't care.
Yeah, I'm not a good guy. Don't look for me as the
guy that saved the planet. If I could, I would, I can't,
so I don't. But I just have to say it. I don't
care, and I leave it alone. I'm going to leave it to the
so called geniuses to figure it out, the politicians, the ones that are
watching this country fall apart and participating it. We don't have enough problems,
crime, inflation, no borders, no abortions, fighting with Disney, bud
Light, new regulations for I think you're now allowed to say fat advocates corruption.
Then you get into love them or hatem with how many times do you
have to say Trump was right? The Biden behavior at the moment is scary
when it comes to the DOJ. But I don't care. I'm not going
there, I'm cultural and lifestyle. Thank you Apple, Thank you Spotify.
I love to observe humans. They're so entertaining. But before I get into
it, let me be fair. As a qualifier, I should say that
I'm in ore and we're in debt. To the military, Thank you,
the police, to firefighters, thank you, utility workers, sanitation, power
water, thank you, the medical profession early responders. Thank you all for
your service. Now I used to include teachers, not anymore. They now
all in the category with everyone else. Opinion challenged morons, really proof that
a college education isn't what it was or should be. No more independent thinkers.
No wonder people graduating are prepared for work, let alone life. While
I'm at the worst of the worst for independent thinking. The politicians voting the
party line rather than voting what was right. We voted for these people to
take a stance on what they believe and not to follow a line of politicians
in their party hook line is sinking no matter whether they're right or wrong.
I wonder do they know if they're on the wrong side when they are or
are they thinking that I need to get reelected, I need to make sure
I sit on the right committees. I need to write my next book.
Are they doing what's right for us following that party line? I don't think
so. Listen, people are segmented into vast groups that are living embodiments of
common sense, not being thinking aside. I've noticed Americans no brains, no
taste, no values, no integrity, and no discipline, wasters, weight,
challenged, filled with excuses, and to observe you, I would do
it all day and night. I love it. Explains why people are on
Instagram all day. They're vapid rules. But boy, are you fun to
look at the tall, the short, the skinny, and they're not so
dressed up dressed down. I love watching you through your daily activities alongside me.
I'm no exception. I'm an admitted acquired taste. I give you permission
to look and criticize me, because I'm going to criticize you. There is
fair I have to admit as I classify you in these different categories. The
name of the show is always in fashion. You're almost never in fashion.
If it wasn't a bad taste, you'd have no taste at all. Do
you have a look at yourselves before you leave the house? Are you smart?
Not really, that's frustrating. You're often wrong and never in doubt.
You're incredibly stupid. I watch you squander your votes, you pick one issue
that you focus in on and let the rest of the country burn. It's
moronic, and still we can't get people in office we could admire. I
had hoped for Trump, the outsider, the businessmen and women entering politics.
I came from the world that these people are a part of, and I
admire them. They say what they'll do, they do something, and they
deliver, or they don't and they get fired. Trump demand, now that's
the conversation. But this week it has proven the insiders, the Democrats,
conspired to ruin his presidency years lost because they don't like him, and the
team got voted out, and no one is accepting responsibility or accountability. This
is unbelievable. In spite of all this, I've been running around and I've
been observing. I've had a beautiful week out in the weather. I've been
interacting, I've been searching. I got a lot to report. I know
I'm not an idiot. I can't be the only one one that sees this
stuff. Looking walking taking part of society. It's there to be seen.
It's time to comment. From escaping to shopping to intersecting, and it's reacting
with humans. Now. I've been also shopping for stuff. I've learned that
money camp buy happiness, money Camp buy class, money Camp buy service,
money camp buy good looks, and money certainly can't buy your love anyway.
Tonight, it's the world as I've seen it recently, absurd and noticed.
Joining me on this tour of Notice in New York, my lawyer, my
son, my co host, Jesse Webber. When you start the show with
the word humans, I know it's going to be uncomfortable. I think that's
a trigger word. I'm used to it by now. You ever hear of
Betty Davis, I think so yeah, old time actions. She's one of
the greats actually, and she was in a movie called All About Eve.
She has one of these great lines. I have to play it for you.
Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy nuts. So
yeah, we might be in for a bumpy ride and some of the subjects
we choose to discuss, but basically I want to do fun stuff. Now,
aren't you amazed? Jesse? What you see around you? The news
on the streets. I gotta stop asking you. You're the anchor of the
Lauren Crime Network, you're the legal analyst for News Nation. What's going on
with that trial? I have to ask Laurie. I forget her name,
You'll tell me, Laurie valode Bell, I gotta ask you. When you
cover these trial, you cover these maniacs. Do they think they're going to
get away with it? I don't know what she's thinking. She's one of
the very, very strange defendants. It's such a horrible case. She was
convicted of killing her kids, she was convicted of being involved in the murder
of her husband's wife. Very hard to know what's in her mind. She
was like showing no emotion during the course of the trial. I don't know
if she really knew what was going on. I don't know if she really
knew, you know, if she thought she was trying to get away with
it, if she thought she was right. I can't say. I would
say in the majority of the cases that we cover, yeah, the defendants
who commit these crimes are definitely trying to get away with it. They lie,
they cover things up. I love the cases where they hire someone to
kill someone, like murder for hire plots. They think, oh, you
know what, I'm going to outsource this. It'll never get traced back to
me. And those are the cases where the paper trail and the video trail
and the digital trail is worse than anything. It goes right back to them.
So it's yeah, everybody's most of the time they're trying to escape getting
into trouble. And by the way, I get this question a lot.
Oh, they must claim the insanity defense. They're insane. Well, everybody
who commits a murder is there's something wrong with them. They're all there's something
mentally off. It doesn't mean they're insane, but there's definitely something wrong with
them. Yeah, all right, well that was helpful. Did you see
her in court? She went from a beauty to a monster. There's a
clip from her from years ago. I think she was like Miss Texas or
she was trying to be in a beauty pageant, smiling, youthful, energetic,
and now she is just cold, emotionless, hardened killer. That's who
she is. It's pretty horrible to see the progression. All right, Well,
we're on the news, get it out of the way. What's going
on with firing the Department of Justice lawyers who are You're completely wrong, your
fake news. That's not what happened. Al right, Well tell me I
told you before. I don't care. I'm just curious. I think what
you're referring to is that there was an IRS whistleblower who came forward a month
or so ago. This is somebody who's been investigating Hunter Biden and said that
he believes that there is a cover up in the Hunter Biden investigation. And
after this whistleblower came forward, the Commissioner of the IRS said, we encourage
whistleblowers, there will be no retaliation taken against this whistleblower for coming forward,
and then bam, this week we are alerted from the lawyers of that IRS
whistleblower that the whistleblower and his entire investigative team have been fired. So we
don't know why this whistleblower was fired. Department of Justice has not come forward
with an explanation. The IRS has not come forward with an explanation. But
from an optics point of view, it sure doesn't look great. It doesn't
look great that the person who came forward and says there's monkey business going on
in the Hunter Biden investigation gets taken off the case after he was promised he
wouldn't get taken off the case. Where is this in regard to the Hunter
Biden laptop case. Look, Hunter Biden is being investigated for tax fraud and
whether or not any other kinds of business dealings. They came out last week
that Congress said the Bidens have been engaging and influenced pedaling, but there's been
nothing directly tied to President Joe Biden. Hunter Biden's being looked at. We'll
see if criminal charges come. I'm not sure what's going to come of it.
But he is being investigated right now. But how does that relate to
this whistleblower. Well, the whistleblower says that the investigation by the IRS,
and really it's a US attorney in Delaware who's looking into Hunter Biden, but
it's in coordination with the IRS. This whistleblower said that there's been a cover
up. I don't know if there's been a cover up. That's what this
whistleblower's allegations were. There's so much we don't know, but just optically,
it doesn't look right that the whistle blower was taken off the case. How
is this different from Biden firing the people that were looking into the Ukraine.
Well, in that case, the allegation was the Ukrainian prosecutor wasn't doing his
job. The idea was that the Ukrainian prosecutor should have been fired because he
wasn't really looking into corruption and he wasn't doing his job. And Biden's argument
has been like, that's why we wanted him removed. But hey, wasn't
he looking at the companies that Hunter Biden was involved in? Arguably yes,
So that's the other way of looking at it too. So is this all
cycle babble? Is this real? What's going on right now? I don't
want to jump to speculation, and there's been By the way, let's be
clear, there's been no evidence that Joe Biden. President Joe Biden directed that
this whistleblower be fired or interfered in this investigation. He came forward at the
very beginning and said, I'm not gonna I know my son is going to
be looked at. I'm not going to get involved in any which way until
something comes to say otherwise. I don't want to immediately accuse him of something.
But you know what, I think is interesting. The president can pardon
Hunter Biden if the worst of the worst comes out for federal crimes, not
state crimes. Yes, So I would say to you that the clock is
sticking to get this out there done, and if he's going to be convicted
of something, it has to happen quickly while Joe Biden is still the president,
if he's going out pardon his son, which he would think he would,
now God forbid, he's brought up in all of this and they could
see that he was getting money for pay to play. He can't pardon himself.
Oh boy, that's a tricky legal question. I don't think it's ever
been settled about it, one way or another. All right, let's get
back to cultural and lifestyle. What do you see going around the streets these
days, Jesse? You mean when I'm walking around New York City. Sure,
something happened recently and it made me think of it. Have you ever
been walking down the street and there's people who are trying to sell you something,
and are they're trying to basically have you sign up for something. I
had a girl on Madison Avenue the other day, come really attractive, come
walking over to me. And she's wanting to sell me skincare or whatever.
She said. You know, I saw you walking down the street. You're
amazing, your hair amazing. She's I want to talk to you from it.
I have a question, so I said to him. Unless your question
is do you want to go out with me or take me for dinner,
I'm not answering. She looked me as no, it turned around and walked
away. Well that's one way to respond to it. I just have to
tell you, I think they are the best sellers. The way that they're
so unique and how they try to get you to stop, and the compliments
they give you. Sometimes I stop, I go thank you like it's I'm
I'm not going to sign what they want me to sign. But I just
think they give you like the best compliments and the way that they try to
stop people on the street. I love it. Yeah, and I think
that false flag compliments. As you could see, I got to the chase.
If I'm so handsome, it looks so great walking down the street and
you have to talk to me, then okay, where are we going?
You could be handsome? She just doesn't want to date you, Then leave
me alone and just observe like I do, notice me and leave me alone.
What about you? Any interactions that you care to share all? That's
what got me started on all of this. I've noticed some very unusual things
during COVID. My passport has expired. I hadn't didn't know if the world
would ever open up again. I didn't envision getting in a plane again.
And I let my passport expire. And this week I decided to go renew
my passport and I made an appointment to visit the city hall. You passed
through a metal detector. You have to show your ID. I was shown
to a little section that had stand up waiting area. There were five or
six men or women lined up in little cubbies that you'd walk up to the
cubby and stand there and fill out a form and renew your passport. I
brought my form with me. I happened to make a couple of corrections.
She made me fill it out all over again, because you're not allowed any
cross offics. And I filled out the entire passport and then she got to
the point she said, well, you need to take a picture. For
that, you have to pay me forty five dollars. I said, sure,
I take out my wallet. I give a forty five dollars. They
take my picture. She says, now in order process the passport, you
could pay ninety dollars for regular service or one hundred and thirty dollars for expedited
service. I said, I'll pay for one hundred and thirty dollars expedited service.
She's we'll make out a check to I said, I don't have a
check. She's you have to have a check. I said, have a
credit card. We don't take credit cards. You have to have a check.
I have cash. No, you have to have a check. So
she gives me this thing and on it is a key food and it's with
a note that I need money order. Said, wait a minute, you're
sending me to go get a money order. Where's it? It's just three
hundred yards down to the left, down to the right. Go there.
So I go out, and now I'm searching for a money order. I
like to walk, so I don't mind searching for the money order. And
I go to this bottega. They wind me over to this cash redchi.
She said, what can I do for you? And I show her the
request for the money or one hundred and thirty dollars. She says, one
hundred thirty dollars. She feels out a point right in front of her,
there's a bucket and the buckets attached to a string. She takes my two
hundred dollars, which I get cash the money order request. She puts in
the bucket, and I look. Some guys up in a glass window,
pulling the bucket up by the string. He takes it. He puts in
his room. Five minutes later, he sends the bucket down. I'm assuming
it had to do with theft. I'm assuming he's sitting there with an AK
forty seven. Then if I do anything wrong, he's gonna shoot me.
But he sends the bucket down. She gives me my money order, my
change. I walk, I get lost. I get back to the city
hall whatever it was, and I go in to see the woman again.
She waited for me, and I said, Hi, how are you?
She's your money order? Yes, I handed the money order and I said
to her, thank you for your help. I really appreciate. I said,
how long will it take to get my passport? Eleven weeks? What
do you mean eleven weeks? I paid for expedited You didn't say you needed
it quickly. Okay, so she's not wrong. Let me just tell you
something because I've been trying to get a passport too. Even if you do
expedited, there is a backlog right now. It is all in news.
There's a backlog on passports. Apparently everybody's trying to renew their passport or get
one. Yeah, but this is like words, here, are you kidding
me? It's crazy? Right? No, because here's what a part you
miss. She said, Well, if you want to have it within four
weeks, you have to get a money order for one hundred and ninety dollars.
Back to the guy with the shotgun. So I make a long story
show it. I thought about it. I noticed that this world is crazy.
I've noticed that I'm a part of it. And I noticed I've planned
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Here's your host, Mark Webber. I've noticed that the world is crazy.
I love observing what's going on. I love looking at my fellow humans.
I love reporting on it. I'm taking poetic license this week. Apple
Spotify categorize this show as cultural and lifestyle. So I'm talking cultural and lifestyle
tonight. And first off, I want to talk about McDonald's. I've been
wondering should I buy McDonald's stock now? Why might you ask one thing?
There's a lot of conversation about weight discrimination and weight challenge people. I think
the cold fat protagonists now are winning in the court of Laura New York correctly.
So they've been discriminated against and they shouldn't be. We'll talk more about
that. So nothing is better than McDonald's coming and helping them out. But
that's not why I'm doing it. Those of you who follows this show know
that I've been intrigued with McDonald's diet, Coke and Coke. I think they
have the best soft drinks in the world. It has to do with their
machinery, the cooling technique, the weight, the ratio between the syrup and
the club soda. Everything about it is remarkable. And about five years ago
McDonald's lowered their price on soft drinks. You could buy any size you want.
You can buy a jug or a glass for dollar nine. You know,
let's hold us a minute and talk about people being protected. I think
that there's a lobby now for people who wait discriminate it, and it's just
that they're being protected. Having said that, it's not as simple as race
and gender. In fact, Jesse hosted News Nation last week and met with
one of the women who were I guess they called fat activists Jesse fat activists.
Her name is Victoria Abraham. She was the one the supporter of New
York City passing this new law, this new ordinance, and you interviewed her
and what happened. So just to be clear, this is a law that
hasn't been passed yet, it's been approved. The mayor has to actually sign
off on it. And like you said, what it would do is it
would prohibit discrimination based on height and weight in employment, housing, access to
public accommodation. I think it's a great thing. When I spoke with her,
the question that I had for her is is it really the same category
of protected rights protected classes like race, disability, age, gender, because
those are all things that don't change, Those are all things you can't control.
And wait, while I understand that weight, it might be difficult for
you to lose weight or gain weight. It's something that does change. Do
you have this clip? I do? Can we play it? Yeah?
Let's play it? Yeah, go ahead? So yeah, again, this
is from when I hosted Dan Abrams Live on News Nation the other day.
Let's take a listen. We see that there are rates of discrimination that occur
similarly to people of it are overweight, as well as two people who sorry
with different races. Basically, we see that there are similar rates of xumination.
So if people of a different way are being discommuted against, should they
not have that same protection. Well, here's the thing, right, the
only difference is and look, there are people who have hormones, there are
people who have genetics. There are things that they can't change. But many
times with something like weight, it's something it's a lifestyle or you can make
a choice. And if the people look, when you have race or race,
or age or disability, these are things out of your control and the
law has to protect people from being treated unfairly when they have no control over
their life. That's the thing. What's up. Have you ever been fat?
I have not, So how would you know what it's like to be
a fat person and whether or not that's something you can change? So there
you go. She took it as if I'm trying to attack her for the
ability of someone to lose weight. All the point I was making was is
that weight changes. You know what I should have said to her when she
said to me, have you ever been fat? Instead of me saying no,
I actually should have said to her the fact that you're asking me that
question shows that weight can change. Because I'm not fat, but you are
fat when you're a little boy, you're a little fat sel, chubby,
chubby. But you know what happens if I would have said that, I
don't know if they would have believed me. The reason I say what the
response would have been is because immediately after that interview for the next twenty four
hours, I got attacked on Twitter. People were like, this host is
condescending, he's rude, he doesn't understand what it means to be overweight,
and that it's not easy to lose weight. I don't like being attacked.
It doesn't feel good. And I was merely asking questions that I will tell
you, I am sure a lot of people were thinking the same thing and
wanted it to be asked as well. I thought you were fine. I
thought you were great. Actually I thought, listen, I come from a
family of fat cells. I could say because I was when she should have
asked me that question. She asked you, you know my favorite story.
When you were young, I didn't want to walk near you anywhere. Imagine
if I said this on air, which is the truth. I was a
little kid, I was chubby. We're walking on the beach and you go
to me, don't walk next to me. I don't want people to know
I have a fat son. That's a true story. So we were equipped
to talk about This is just a bit I will tell you as follows.
When I was a young kid, when I was up to twelve years old,
I was fat. I had a thirty eight inch waiste. When I
was twelve years old, it was a tough place to be, you know.
I would get oh, he's so cute, it's too bad he's so
fat. People talked about it. I remember how it felt. I remember
the first time I went shopping with my uncle to Barneys. They lived in
Manhattan in seventeen Street, and you right near Barneys. They were on twenty
Street. We walked to Barneys. We went there and he looked at me.
He loved me. He wanted to treat me nice, buy me a
suit. Nothing fit. I had to buy a husk. I wanted to
shoot myself, but as it turned out, my parents took me away to
the Catskill Mountains that summer. We went on a holiday. We rented what
was called a bungalow. We're part of a bungalow camp where people from outside
the city all rented these little cottages and they all stayed together, eight together.
There were shows every week, kind of like the movie Dirty Dancing.
We were in that kind of community. And I met a girl I never
forgot her name. Her name was Leslie Frank. She lived in Queens and
I remember all summer long, I liked her and I chased after me the
fats And when I got home, I had a twenty six inch waist.
I lost twelve inches in my waist from running around, not having time to
eat and just being active, and I lost the weight. So I went
from knowing what it was like to be a FATS to not being. And
I subscribe to this day to Kate Morse's theory that nothing tastes as good as
skinny feels. Now I've shared with the audience, I went up to as
high as two hundred and eighteen pounds in twenty fourteen. As the story goes,
I had a really bad cold. I had a sinus infection. I
went to my doctor. They asked me to get on the scale, and
I said to the nurse who was weighing me, whatever you do, do
not tell me what I weigh. The paper that the doctor gave me on
the prescription and all the details of the visit, which included the weight,
I handed it to my wife. I said, whatever you do, don't
tell me what the weight is. I'm going on a diet. I went
on a diet. Four weeks later, I get on the scale. He
said to my wife, what did I weigh? She said, you weighed
two hundred and eight pounds. I got on the scale. Four weeks later,
I weighed two hundred and nine pounds. I was devastated. I went
to my wife. I said, I don't know what to do. She
started to laugh. I said, that's funny, said, when you asked
me what you weighed the first time after you went on the diet, I
looked at the paper wrong. It was two eighteen, not two o eight.
But I went on a tear and I lost fifty seven pounds. I
made it my business. As I said, I went on a diet as
if I was a Navy seal. I knew it wasn't gonna be fun.
I knew if I didn't feel hungry, I wasn't losing weight. But you
get to a point. With tomatoes taste as good as chocolate cake, with
cucumbers taste as good as Frankfurtus. Losing weight is one thing. Gaining weight
is another. And the problem with weight challenge people is people discriminate because they
think it's within your control. They see you, and they don't understand why
you would be like that, and why you don't take care of it,
and why don't you have the discipline to deal with it? Now? Is
that fair? No? Do you get mocked? Yes? Are you taking
advantage of Yes? Is any of that fair? No? And Jesse and
I we applaud this new law that we hope will get signed by the mayor
to make sure that people who are weight challenge are not discriminated against. And
with that, I'll say stop attacking me too. Okay. I think this
is a great thing. I think it's a long time coming. Believe it
or not. There's only six cities in the United States that have the same
kind of law in the books one state. Michigan's the only state in the
country that has weight discriminate. I think this is a good start and we'll
see where it goes. Well. Before we leave this, I have a
question for you. So, if I'm a receptionist and I'm overweight, can
I be fired in any other of the states that don't have this. It's
a great question in a state that doesn't have this on the books. Technically,
yes, I'm selling men's suits. I'm the boss of the thing.
I look at my salesman. I'm selling suits. The skinny guy. This
guy's overweight. I don't like the way he looks. I can fire him
just because he's fat. Yes see, that's what's not fair. Anyway.
I think it's fascinating. This has come up. Back to McDonald's. Before
we leave this, I was saying to you before that I'm thinking about buying
McDonald's stock. Now, those of you out there even considering listening to be
pleased, do not. I'm trying to make a point. I've added this
thing with diet coke for a very long time. About five years ago,
McDonald's made a deal. I said to the consumer, any size soft junk
you buy is a dollar nine. And I'd be going into McDonald's for the
last five years handing them a dollar ten. And they don't give me my
penny back. And I've done a few shows that talk about this, where
I don't mind spending money, I hate wasting it. If I pay a
dollar one, I expect my change. And what drove me crazy. I
would walk in, they wouldn't give me a pennyback. I'd ask for it,
They'd get angry, they have to reopen the register. Goal over there,
Boy, give me the penny. And I said, let me ask
you a question. If I came here and give you a dollar eight,
would you take it? Just? Probably not? How about a dollar seven?
Absolutely not? So why aren't I entitled to my penny? And I've
been on and on and on indiscriminately as far as I can tell about three
weeks ago, I go into McDonald's. I go to pay my dollar nine.
It's now a dollar forty nine plus tax a dollar sixty two. So
what I've been paying a dollar nine for is now a dollar sixty two.
If you think about all the millions and millions of people that visit McDonald's on
a daily basis, a weekly basis, a monthly basis, who are now
paying fifty cents more for every soft drink they purchase. Could you imagine how
much money McDonald's is now going to earn on top of what they did.
Go ask your stockbroke with that. I've noticed this as well. Take a
break back in a minute. Always in Fashion spent a lifetime of my career
building the van Usen brand, and I am so pleased that they're back with
us now. Talking about suits, men, we're dressing up again and it's
become cool to wear a suit. Suits can be one on multiple occasions in
multiple ways. You can wear a suit formally to go out at night or
to an event, to wear a suit to the office with or without a
tie if you look closly. Now fashion trends, suits are being worn with
turtlenecks or mocknecks. The choices are endless and every one of them looks right.
You could really really look the part. I believe that packaging yourself this
is important. Does the products you package and wearing a suit is one of
those things that make men look their best. Venus and invented a new idea.
It's called the cool Flex suit. It's been engineered with stretched technology,
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amazing, and I'm so excited that the van using company is involved in this
new technology and is embracing the whole idea of dressing up. Let's not forget
venues and made its name with dress shirts. It's only proper that the suit
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stretch suits at jc Penny are online at jcpenny dot com. Guys, they're
great. You should go look at them. Welcome back to Always in Fashion.
Here's your host, Mark Webber this is always in fashion. And even
though I set him to call this show noticed and deal with cultural and lifestyle,
I am going to talk about fashion for a minute. This week was
Mother's Day. It's great. Went to an event. Five hundred people there,
all differently dressed, from guys in sport cuts to guys in shorts and
sandals. There was no set rules, anything goes. That's what I found
amazing about the whole thing. Now, the women, some would dress well,
some were not, but all had their own style and it went from
very dressed to very casual, from white shorts or white jeans to printed dresses,
to high heel shoes to flats to sneakers. Women they knew how to
put themselves together. And while everything's not my taste, I get it.
And the men went from horrible to worse than horrible, too unimaginable, with
a handful of people that actually looked right or looked good at what they would
do. It's amazing to think of workers who wear suits and try and represent
companies that don't fit. The pantcil long and dragging, hanging over the belly.
I mean, there's so much going on it's unbelievable. By and large.
It got me thinking. I noticed all of this that I thought of
thinking about dressing and had a couple of thoughts, where do we get our
idea and sense of what fashion should be? When our company bought the ISOD
company back in nineteen ninety seven, ISOD was purchased by then Phillips van Using
company I was asked to run. It gave me my interest in golf that
stays until today. Had a huge golf company that I had to take over
and manage and build and don't if I get the attention to detail that went
into designing and manufacturing ISOD golfware. First thing I had to consider was what
fit do I want those days? You know, I recognize that a lot
of golfers were overweight, and therefore we should have a generous fit. The
shirts should be extra long so they don't come out of your pants when you're
playing. I learned very early on that our shirts were shrinking before we bought
the company, and I had my key manufacturing quality. Guys, tell me,
what's a story? And cotton shrinks no matter what you do to it,
three to five percent in the length, not the width. Nothing ever
shrinks in the width. It torqus t o rquees mean the seams will turn
based on the way it's washed and whatever. But unless you're a quality connoisseur,
you're not going to know what I'm referring to. But in the length
they shrink three inches four inches five to pins. Really, I realized that
they shrinks no matter what I do, so I had to overcut them so
they shrank into size. And from a design point of view, I had
my eyes on Ralph Lauren. They were the greatest purveyors of traditional modern clothing.
When I say traditional modern, I mean that they're not black, they're
not gray, they're not white. There Ralph florin navy, red, white
and colors, very colorful, fun stuff, and that's who ISOD was.
And I decided to make isaot like Ralph traditional, but with more fun,
with the pinks, the greens, the grays, big logos, big words,
big everything, bigger than life. All the advertising was done with guys
golfing over canyons off boats in the middle of the water, with degradable balls
on the top of mountains in the snow. It was an extraordinary experience.
We went to the most beautiful places in Hawaii and California, Miami to film
on golf courses that were scenic and beautiful. And then I go to the
golf course and seeing the guys that I'm trying to outfit, and they were
horrendous. All the time and attention and love that I went into making isod
beautiful. My sons loved it. I loved it, our customers loved it.
And then I would see it on the or soon I would get incredibly
disappointed. If it wasn't for bad taste, there'd be no taste at all.
Where do you get this from? You ever see the movie The Incredible
Benjamin Button? Is that the name of it? The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button? Brad Pitt? Yeah? You ever see that movie? Jesse?
Oh? Yeah, I love that movie. Great movie. I caught it
the other day. There is no human being more good looking than Brad Pitt.
I suppose you could find some women that are really incredible. I'll give
you my list. Margot, Robbie and half Away, Justin Beaver's wife.
That's it. Who am I missing? There's a lot, but I know
your point. Brad Pitt's amazing looking. Yeah, I think Brad is more
beautiful in all of them. Anyway, I'm watching the movie Benjamin Button and
there's a scene where his love of his life, what's her name, Kate,
Kate Blanchet. Yeah, she's getting older, he's getting younger. And
he's off on a boat by himself, traveling around the world because he's exploring
life, and he is in a melancholy mood. And finally he misses his
life back home. He misses her, he misses his mom, and he
decides to sail back home. And on the boat, he's wearing light color
khaki's boat shoes, a white T shirt, and pale yellow v NEX sweater.
I was so taken aback by how he looked in that yellow v NEX
sweater. I started hunting for six months for yellow VNX to try and match
it. I ended up buying six of them, and finally, in the
end, I bought one that looked just like it. I ended up buying
two of them because if I ruined one, I wanted it. Well.
I got to ask you a billion dollar question, did you look just like
Brad Pitt? Well? You see here in lies the problem. I had
the tan, I had the long hair, slim, I had the right
pants, the right sweater, the white T shirt. I put it all
on and I didn't look like Brad Pitt, and it the press the heck
out of me. I have no business wearing a light yellow sweater. It
isn't my look. But that's not the point. The point is I looked
at him as my role model, and I tried, and I didn't look
like him. I can't look like him, but I tried. And where
is this leading? Two people have come to mind that are either in place
at a company or looking for jobs that we know, and both of them
have forgotten how important it is to look their best. You know, the
show packaging yourself. This is important as the products your package. If you're
in a company and you want to excel, it shouldn't matter how you look,
but it does. It shouldn't matter how you talk, but it does.
It shouldn't matter how you put sentences together, but it does. The
way you frame your concepts, all of these things matter. It's not fair.
The world's not fair. I mean, if it's up to me,
I'd look like Brad Pitt, but I don't. But I know I have
to look my best. And these two guys that I'm thinking of, one
is currently employed, and the other is looking for fagot high shine? What
is high shine? I work with a guy named Kenneth Wise, who's the
president of licensing at PVH. I remember one time we were talking about our
licensee who are friends of OZ who made belts and small leather goods. And
I remember talking to the president and saying, look, you're a great company,
but you need high shine. You walk into these showrooms, I'm depressed.
You look at the office complex, I'm depressed. You have the finest
retailers in America walking through that you can want to convince to buy your product.
You need high shine. It's important. And the owner of the company
took it to heart and read it his entire operation, and he made it
high shine. And today, if they're not the largest small leather goods in
belt company in America, they are one of the closest. And they went
into other businesses as well. They bought pant companies, they bought sportswear companies.
They have high shine, Which brings me back to these guys. You're
out there, you're looking for work. Guys, you're at work. I
go back untill we were talking about before. There's something to be said for
being fit and looking fit. I don't will expect you to have your college
weight, but I expect you to do your best to look right. If
you're going to be playing to win, your clothes have to fit you right.
You can't have your button straining. You have to have a shirt to
fit you. If you're a little overweight, your pants can't drag. Your
jackets have to be tailored. Your shoes have to be shined, and the
heels can't be worn down. You have to make an effort. If Brad
Pitt's not your idol, find out who is. Very often it's the owners
of the company or the presidents of company. They set the dress code for
companies. Look at them. If not, there's plenty of examples, there's
plenty of ads, there's plenty of places where you could look for suit dressing.
Right now, my favorite place for suits is a suit supply, as
is yours just right. I mean, their collection is always great, it's
fresh, it's new. I love it. It's fantastic service. People need
some work. They treat you like you're not wealthy enough to be there,
and yet you're the one buying it because you are wealthy enough and they're working
there. And by the way, this isn't like Armani. This isn't like
Purple Label Ralph Lauren. They've charge a good amount, but they're not like
Couture. They need to calm down a little bit. Well and to night
we're talking about Notice this is a good example. I also like Ralph Lauren
for suits. So guys, you're looking, but here's a personal You have
hair. Find a hairstyle that works for you. If you're going to have
a beer a scrubble, you have to make it look like you care,
not like you're sitting at home. I remember I wrote the book Dressed Casually
for Success for men. Work doesn't disappear a competition in the work, Pella
says, it disappear because it's casual Friday or casual every day. You have
to shave, you have to look shop. If you're not going to shave,
whatever you're leaving, whatever scrubble has to look like you care, not
like you didn't give it any thought unless you're in Silicon Valley. Except every
time I see one of Apple's presentations, everyone is spit shine. So these
two guys, they're not doing it. They're not looking their best and it
made me think about on a night noticed, on a day that we're talking
about, what's the future of the world being noticed. I have to tell
you you need high shine from your shoes to the top of your head.
You have to look like you gave it some thought. You're making an impression.
Either you're on the job and you're competing with everyone else, and even
though you're smarter, you have to look the part. You have to act
the part. And if you're looking for a job, if you don't look
like the next person who could make that boss who's hiring someone successful, you're
wasting your time and effort. You're going to be noticed. I'll take a
break back in a minute. Always in fashion, I've been shopping for fun
lately, and while I'm out, I always look at men's and I look
at women's. What's going on? And I was particularly interested in Decay and
Why because of their sponsorship of the show. I went down downstairs at Macy's
thirty fourth Street to look around, and I saw a ky active where and
I promise you, ladies, it is sensational. From the sports braus to
the crop tops, to the leggings and the sweats. It really is a
great look. And dk Andy had begun as an all American brand dressing casual
clothes engines, and the stuff looks incredible and right now the colors and the
styles is so exciting that I feel great about the company. I always do.
I wear the men's wear all the time. I've had situations where I've
gone to big events and been interviewed in TV or radio and someone comes up
to me the microphone and like they always do, who you're wearing? And
here I am, this big shot with a big company and they say,
well, I'm wearing a DKY and they laugh and say, no, you're
not. Actually have one on the internet where you could see me. They
asked me what suit I'm wearing, and I see Dy had opened it up
and there's the dk Andy label. Great fashion, it fits well, it
looks right. It's designed to make you comfortable in the city, goes from
day and tonight. You can wear it in the morning, wear in the
afternoon, and you look cool at night as well. It's great for the
office. Is great Felisia, But I'm talking about the dcmy activewear. The
first time I really became aware of Jesse and I were up at Sirius Radio.
He was doing a job for Serious He does Dan Abrams show. He
fills in on the Potus network, and we're in the lobby and this hip
hop group came up. Well, this really great looking Latino singer girl young,
beautiful, and she's wearing a dkm Y sports bar and I said to
myself, this is amazing. Actually went to Macy's to see it, and
I'm excited about the brand. And I'll tell you what, ladies, dk
Y always has great fashion for work, always wonderful dresses and things that you'd
wear. Their accessories are great, the shoes are always very cool. But
activewear in particular right now looks sensational and being that everyone's affleisure in activewear,
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Here's your host, Mark Webber. I've noticed can't help it being out
in the back. Can't help it being out and about. You see things,
you observe things. Some things make you angry, some things make you
sad. Something's make me laugh out loud. I've been thinking about my place
in the world. Hopefully on this radio show and podcast, I'm helping all
of you come to your own conclusions. I did come across a quote that
I thought was very interesting. If your absence doesn't bother them, then your
presence never meant anything to them. I talk to all of you who are
in business. If you don't take care of your customers. They're not going
to remember you. You don't mean anything to them. They won't be back.
If you're not a good role model to your friends, your family,
your absence won't bother them because your presence never meant anything to them. I've
noticed when you do right, you do right by yourself. With that,
i've noticed all of you. Good Night,