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you know how it goes right at the time
seemed like a great idea and then after
you're like
what was i thinking we've all made
purchases like that
and i'm no different so today i'm
actually going to share five of the
things that i have regretted buying
the most
i'm brian sakau and you're watching he
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so you know i'm a big fragrance lover
and you also know that i like nice
fragrances and
one of my favorite things about
fragrance is that there's always
something new to discover you know
i always have the ones that i go back to
but it's the thrill of the hunt for
something new
and unique and special that really
excites me and
one of the fragrances that started
creeping into my mind and
piquing my interest was one from a house
that i was familiar with
uh having seen it and smelled it in some
higher end department stores over the
years but
one that i never actually went ahead to
purchase for myself
so the particular fragrance that
captured my attention was baccarat rouge
540
by maison francis kirkjohn never smelled
it
never seen it in the store but as i was
going down one of my fragrance rabbit
holes
it was one that started to sound really
interesting
for one bakarat i mean beautiful crystal
lovely hotel in new york great bar where
robin and i have enjoyed a few cocktails
that were a little too expensive
so it had that allure to it already of
course having
no idea what it smelled like i read
every review i could find in all the
usual places
watch whatever video i could find
basically to try and convince myself
that this was a good choice
i wasn't completely sold on it based on
what i was hearing and what i was
reading uh
just kind of didn't sound like something
that was me
people said it was kind of orangey on
the sweeter side
but the thing that intrigued me the most
and ultimately swayed me to make the
purchase
this was a complete blind buy was the
fact that people were saying that it was
transparent so
i don't think i'd ever experienced a
transparent fragrance before
so yes i spent too much money
should have gone with my gut not a
fragrance for me
i don't like how it smells on me but not
a total loss though because robin
actually likes it
and i like how it smells on her next is
the story
of a mistake i made very early on when i
started to get more serious
about putting time and effort into how i
dressed it's a mistake that i believe is
unavoidable for anyone who gets into
this kind of thing
the full video for that is right up
there i wanted to be different
i wanted to show people that i was in
the know and one of the brands that at
the time for me really stood for that
was the black fleece line by brooks
brothers black fleece was designed by
tom brown known for the quote-unquote
shrunken suit and
like a lot of his tailored stuff it was
classic but definitely had his modern
take on what men's tailoring should be
the shirts were phenomenal off the rack
shirts the pants were shorter
the leg width was wider than you would
expect for pants that short
and the jackets were a little short as
well but i'm not talking about the
jackets here i actually kind of really
like the black fleece jackets i had of
course that crazy
navy octagon pattern one i wouldn't
necessarily wear it now but
i wouldn't say that i regretted buying
it and i also had a big tartan plaid one
that i got a lot of use
out of the thing i regret buying however
were the matching pants
to the tartan plaid jacket i never
wore them the plaid was just too big too
bold i thought i could pull them off in
like a holiday
situation or something but i i tried
them on
and just could not bring myself to wear
them out of the house
still have them size bb1 if you want
them hit me up in the comments
okay so although i am very fortunate to
have a regular photographer that i work
with i do like photography myself and i
do need to take pictures sometimes when
rob
or robin is not available so basically
it's important for me to have my own
camera before i buy anything
i do lots of research and of course rob
is a great resource for things like that
well i was in the market for a camera
around 2013
2014 i wanted something that wasn't too
expensive like
around no more than a thousand dollars
but that could still take really good
photos
ideally i was looking for something that
i didn't have to buy a lens for so
pretty much what i wanted was a really
nice point and shoot rob and i had gone
on our very first trip together as part
of he spoke style we spent this
really whirlwind weekend in venice italy
as a guest
of persol his usual camera the camera
that we shoot all the photos on is a
canon 1dx mark
ii way more camera than i needed or
cared to deal with but on that trip he
did take an extra camera with him to
shoot
a little video and just play around with
and it was the fujifilm
x100s small powerful
good-looking camera that he really liked
so that is actually the camera that i
ended up buying
i absolutely hated
that camera you know maybe it takes a
certain kind of photographer to use that
camera but
i could never get it to do what i wanted
i can't count the number of times that i
was so disappointed in the photos that
i'd taken
there were instances where i needed to
get a good shot and it just
failed me and i tried to get better with
it but it
just did not work for me so it ended up
being more of a prop
than anything else which was terrible
next this is not style related
in any way shape or form for the record
you may know that i used to race a bike
and bicycle racers are very particular
about their equipment
at the elite level small things like
your shifters your brake calipers
your tires can all make a really minute
but
huge difference when you're stacked up
against people who are all you know
basically at the same
ability level wheels are one of those
things that are
extremely important and since it isn't
style related i will
try to keep it shorter but there is a
very scary story involved here
so i was looking at getting a pair of
zip 404s but
you know they're really expensive and
there was this guy kind of in the
cycling community around here who
started selling his own wheels so
i decided to support him instead as soon
as i got these wheels
i felt like i had made a huge mistake
they were light which is good but they
felt
really cheap to the point of like not
inspiring
any confidence on the bike at all so
that next weekend
there was a road race and my job in that
race was to attack early on
get in a breakaway make the field chase
me so my teammate could sit in and then
launch a
attack once they caught me i did exactly
that but this was one of the most
frightening breakaways that i had ever
done it was a very hilly course or a lot
of fast downhills
and these wheels were freaking me out
uh they were supposedly trued but they
were
wobbly and i literally thought they were
gonna fall off the bike or
break in half so imagine what that feels
like when you are going down a hill
on a bike at 45 50 miles an hour with
only a thin layer of spandex between you
and the pavement i got rid of those
things real fast
bit the bullet and got some zip 404s the
moral of the story is that it's worth
paying more for quality
so how cool are people like angel ramos
jake muser matt haranek steve of the
snob report
etc i love seeing photos of these guys
on instagram their style is just so
natural and relaxed and easy going
it's very inspiring to me and i really
like their approach
and one of the things i saw all these
guys wearing quite a lot over the last
year
year and a half or so was a particular
pair of sunglasses
sunglasses are tough for me i have kind
of a narrow face so there are a lot of
sunglasses that
just don't work for me some of them that
i really love like the personal 649 or
714 or even
ray-ban aviators thankfully come in
smaller sizes and those are
always the sizes that i wear now the
sunglasses in question that i was seeing
all these guys wear
they just look so cool were the porsche
design sunglasses
by carrera so i started looking into
them and was
kind of disappointed to find out that
typically these are very wide which
definitely meant that they would be way
too large
for my face and look completely
ridiculous but the more reading i did i
did find that there were smaller sizes
available particularly
in vintage models so i hopped on ebay
search for
vintage versions and specifically ones
that were designated as small
i found a few pairs and the pair that i
liked the most
wasn't that expensive it was like 100
bucks so i decided to roll the dice you
want to see what these things look like
yeah not really for me the takeaway is
that we all make mistakes and it doesn't
even really matter how much knowledge
you have about a certain thing
you know i talk a lot about suits and
tailored clothing on the channel but
that doesn't mean that i haven't made my
fair share of mistakes when it comes to
my own suits
i can't make decisions for you but
hopefully sharing mistakes that i've
made and talking about why i decided to
do those things
can help you if you find yourself in a
similar situation and that's
exactly what i talk about in that video
right over there so click there to find
out what i view
as my worst custom suit mistakes