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“Nice suit.”

“It’s made from recycled bottles.”

Yup, EcoGIR is selling this suit under the Covington Perfect Wardrobe line. I can’t find it on the Web site, but they’re supposedly available at select Sears stores.

It takes 13 2-liter bottles to make one suit, which ends up being something around 50% recycled.

How cool is that?

$149 for the whole suit.

Sears

Wordplay = complementary colors giving compliments. Oh Threadless, you’re so witty. And wonderful.

$18

Get the complementary colors tee.

2K by Gingham is a line of new tees from an awesome site (sort of like Threadless, but possibly better)

They’ve got a great range of designers and artists making great tees in pretty much every color under the rainbow.

It’s definitely a site to check out if you’re tired of the much-hyped Threadless and others.

Find out more about 2kbyGingham.

My dad is a hard guy to shop for. Generally, he’s happy with just a phone call for Father’s Day, but that is just not enough, really. I can’t seem to decide whether he’s a gadget type or a gardener type.

Juliet Shops is a site where the work is done for you. Like Violet, it groups gifts based on his interests. Not sure still? You can take a quiz to find appropriate gifts.

Go shopping for something perfect.

Gilt, one of the online sample sale sites I’m a fan of, is now doing men’s sales and they’re starting with one of my favorites: John Varvatos.

My brother will be so excited. He’s been lusting after some Varvatos stuff for months.

What? You are not a member of Gilt? Well, send me an e-mail at (admin at allthatanda[dot] com) and I’ll hook you up.

Introducing Hussein Chalayan Spring-Summer 2008 Menswear Collection Exclusively for YOOX, a pretty nice little capsule collection for the dudes out there. And there are plenty. My brother complains almost daily how hard it is to shop for new and different men’s clothing.

I found it to be pretty simple and charming, with my favorite item to be this jacket with an offset pocket. I’m a sucker for a nice jacket.

Go check it out. Collections like these generally fly off the (virtual) shelves.

Still need to get your man a gift? Rush over to Sephora and grab this scent sampler. Best idea ever.

This is what happens. There are 8 samples and a gift certificate in the pack. You get the pack for your guy, and he tries each and every one and then picks one he wants. He tackes the certificate to Sephora and gets a full size bottle for later. ($50)

Get it.

You have just a few more days to grab whatever kind of t-shirts you wnat to give to your loved ones. American Apparel will even ship it next day for free if you use code “LastChance07.”

Hurry, you have until 12/20!

Get it. 

It looks like a bike lock, but cooler. The thing I love about design is that it can so easily be everyday. Who cares if it’s more than a cheap (or free) keyring? It’s great. ($29)

Get it. 

Josh DJs. But not DJ as in on the radio, he scratches, or skratches, depending on how cool you feel.

Anyway, most of his gadget purchases revolve round this nerdery and so does his wishlist. He has this nifty software called Serato that lets him scratch better through his comp and this mixer that costs more than anything and everything I own combined.

This pad controller from Akai Professionals is just what he needs. Since I don’t know too much about this stuff, I will let the Akai web site explain it.

“Akai Professional’s MPD24 is the velocity sensitive pad controller for musicians and DJs. Modeled after the landmark MPC series, the MPD24 allows for an extremely expressive and intuitive solution to percussion and rhythm programming.

With 16 MPC-style velocity and pressure sensitive pads, four selectable pad banks for a total of 64 playable pads, six assignable faders and eight assignable, 360^o knobs for transmitting MIDI Control Change data, the MPD24 provides unprecedented creative freedom for manipulating sampled material. The MPD24 also features transport controls for interfacing with DAW/sequencing applications. A fully reprogrammable controller, the MPD24 is a malleable and multi-functional tool that fits perfectly within any production or performance environment.”

As for why Josh needs this….thingie?

“Now that serato has implemented midi i could use the mpd-24 to control the software and other software like ableton live.”

I have no idea how much it costs, but this is the link to Akai.

Link to ScratchLive