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Nick Scott believes in the adage "less is more." The 24-year-old Hampden resident keeps his style minimalist. He keeps it simple at work as an educational aide at the Forbush School at Sheppard Pratt, generally wearing T-shirts and jeans at work. For going out, he has a handful of dress shirts that he likes to combine with either a vintage tie or vest, black jeans and a fedora. So, how does Scott describe his look? "I take a little bit from the 1920s and the 1950s and modern British punk. I go all over the place." When we "glimpsed" him at Ottobar, we thought he was one hip cat.
The look: Black button-down Calvin Klein cotton shirt. Black Levi's jeans. White silk skinny tie with switchblade painted on it. Black Calvin Klein boots. Black wool DPC brand fedora.
Where it came from: He bought the shirt at Macy's. His tie came from 9th Life in Hampden. He's had the jeans forever. He found the boots at SRI Shoe Warehouse, and the fedora at a store on South Street in Philadelphia.
His fashion philosophy: "I'm pretty basic with all that. The 'less is more' ethos ... I tend to go fairly minimalistic. With dress shirts, I like a stiff, slightly higher collar. ... I guess it's a very unfettered look. It has a formal informality to it, I suppose. It's slightly dressed up, but at the same time, it's fairly clean-cut [and] put together."
Less is more also applies to his closet: "I have a couple black dress shirts, a couple of white dress shirts and one that's dark red. ... If I wear a button-down shirt, I'll wear a tie or a vest. I tend not to just go with a [plain] button-down shirt. ... Normally, I'll go between three ties that I use. I tend to wear them loose. ... I have a black Perry Ellis and white pinstriped vest and a black H&M vest. I have two hats: one I have [here] and one with a slightly bigger brim. Both are just black fedoras. Occasionally, I'll wear a blazer. I have two of those. One is a basic black Calvin Klein, and the other is a hand-me-down of a hand-me-down, a dark maroon one-button blazer from the '40s."
He shops when his clothes drop: "I tend not to shop that often. If something is coming apart or severely discolored, I'll go out and get something. I'll go to H&M, and maybe discount places like Nordstrom Rack. ... For ties, I'll first look at 9th Life in Hampden because they have more interesting stuff."
His fashion influences: "I think the '20s and the '50s were very intriguing times. My girlfriend, especially, is an Anglophile. [My modern influences come] from modern British Indian punk, I see a lot of stuff from that scene. [Musician] Pete Doherty, especially."
His style has evolved: "In my late teens, I was in the Baltimore punk scene as it hit its peak and just wore off. I used to wear the punk uniform - the all-black with the patches and tattered shirt. And after a while, I got a little fed up with it. I started playing around with other ideas, and digging through my old school clothes."
What he's not going for: "I avoid the Wham City look as much as humanly possible - the kids with the ironic facial hair, all these almost random seeming DayGlo colors; oftentimes, you see white sunglasses. It looks like they're starving artists, but they're paying for top-shelf alcohol. In the Station North area, right by MICA, you get a lot of those kids. I just try to be me. I try to avoid the fads."
What he is going for: "I'm hopeful [my look] doesn't have to make a statement for me. I'd rather have my personality defining my clothes rather than my clothes defining my personality."
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The look: Black button-down Calvin Klein cotton shirt. Black Levi's jeans. White silk skinny tie with switchblade painted on it. Black Calvin Klein boots. Black wool DPC brand fedora.
Where it came from: He bought the shirt at Macy's. His tie came from 9th Life in Hampden. He's had the jeans forever. He found the boots at SRI Shoe Warehouse, and the fedora at a store on South Street in Philadelphia.
His fashion philosophy: "I'm pretty basic with all that. The 'less is more' ethos ... I tend to go fairly minimalistic. With dress shirts, I like a stiff, slightly higher collar. ... I guess it's a very unfettered look. It has a formal informality to it, I suppose. It's slightly dressed up, but at the same time, it's fairly clean-cut [and] put together."
Less is more also applies to his closet: "I have a couple black dress shirts, a couple of white dress shirts and one that's dark red. ... If I wear a button-down shirt, I'll wear a tie or a vest. I tend not to just go with a [plain] button-down shirt. ... Normally, I'll go between three ties that I use. I tend to wear them loose. ... I have a black Perry Ellis and white pinstriped vest and a black H&M vest. I have two hats: one I have [here] and one with a slightly bigger brim. Both are just black fedoras. Occasionally, I'll wear a blazer. I have two of those. One is a basic black Calvin Klein, and the other is a hand-me-down of a hand-me-down, a dark maroon one-button blazer from the '40s."
He shops when his clothes drop: "I tend not to shop that often. If something is coming apart or severely discolored, I'll go out and get something. I'll go to H&M, and maybe discount places like Nordstrom Rack. ... For ties, I'll first look at 9th Life in Hampden because they have more interesting stuff."
His fashion influences: "I think the '20s and the '50s were very intriguing times. My girlfriend, especially, is an Anglophile. [My modern influences come] from modern British Indian punk, I see a lot of stuff from that scene. [Musician] Pete Doherty, especially."
His style has evolved: "In my late teens, I was in the Baltimore punk scene as it hit its peak and just wore off. I used to wear the punk uniform - the all-black with the patches and tattered shirt. And after a while, I got a little fed up with it. I started playing around with other ideas, and digging through my old school clothes."
What he's not going for: "I avoid the Wham City look as much as humanly possible - the kids with the ironic facial hair, all these almost random seeming DayGlo colors; oftentimes, you see white sunglasses. It looks like they're starving artists, but they're paying for top-shelf alcohol. In the Station North area, right by MICA, you get a lot of those kids. I just try to be me. I try to avoid the fads."
What he is going for: "I'm hopeful [my look] doesn't have to make a statement for me. I'd rather have my personality defining my clothes rather than my clothes defining my personality."
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