So I’ve been more than a little obsessed with pushing the limits of appropriate men’s accessories these days.  Part of the reason is that I recently saw the movie Color Me Kubrick with John Malkovich (or Ham Malkoham as I call him) and was truly stunned by the fashion choices they made.  In the movie Malkovich plays a queer grifter who is drifting through life pretending to be Stanley Kubrick, another grifter! I love it!  But as the movie progresses, Malkovich starts wearing stranger and stranger accessories until he’s literally using trash as accessories and with an all in all positive effect! Some of my favorites were a shower cap, eye patch, lots of head scarves worn in variety of ways, a fake LV purse (and referring to it constantly), battery powered fan, butterfly broach, a fifth of vodka, fingerless fishnet gloves, rings that are too small and don’t fully fit on the finger, bright clashing patterned socks, pocket squares, plastic visors, cigarette holders etc etc.

I love the traditional men’s accessories: gloves, hats, ties etc but after a while they do get dull and being willing to throw on some trash really opens up the door to endless possibilities. Personally I think that this approach needs to be done with caution, it’s best to have a solid classic look before throwing a shower cap on your head and in the end, attitude is really what will sell the whole thing.  Fashion collective, and juggernaught of recycled-fashion inspiration, Andrea Crews is pretty much the master of trash as accessories, as you can see yourself.

And here are a couple more directions you can take with inappropriate accessorizing, which I pilfered from that land of endless fashion insight known as Style Bubble.