LNSM: Nielsen likes a slut
A Season 10 wardrobe fit for an Emmy nominee
This is not Emmys Content. This is a post-Emmys suggestion for my besties over at 30 Rock: The following is neither backed by garment theory nor is it a trend forecast. What follows are fashion adjacent suggestions for Season 10 of LNSM. Obviously we are staying casual. It’s Mr. Rodgers-Architecture Digest Home Tour-Oh Captain! My Captain-CORE and we love it. But @LNSM team, squeeze those Comcast nuts a little! All of those nominations and splashy interviews about finally being nominated have got to be worth something. In fact, I propose they are worth an elevated Season 10 lookbook for the entire team. Who needs raises and benefits when you could have layers and graphic knits?! (Think of this like the makeover episode on America’s Next Top Model, me your unhinged Tyra Banks (rabies free), you—the LNSM team—the scrappy little midwestern nothings about to cut their hair for the first time!!)
Op1
Although I prefer ripping the bandaid off, you could potentially ease into a fashion transition with the following options:
Honestly, if you aren’t going to elevate the looks just bleed Comcast through wardrobe. For all I know, this could be the sweater/sweatshirt thing you already have in rotation…That’s how little a departure this $1.1k sweatshirt would be from the norm.
Plaid on plaid on plaid on plaid but make it one thousand dollars. If it’s not already apparent, I know little to nothing about menswear/menswear shopping. I just know about the menswear section of websites I cannot afford.
Rag & Bone feels very of the moment LNSM. Very elevated basic—Late Night hosts are just like you—improv goes mainstream. I’m 90% sure you’ve worn this and we all know you can do better.
Make a boring sweatshirt fun with a little pocket and a lotta Benjamins.
Plaid with cool buttons? I don’t know. It better have silver sewn into the design.
Op2
Low risk, low reward
This sweater will always remind me of Nate Archibald from Gossip Girl (original). Imagine doing Corrections and the real gag is that you’re wearing a THREE THOUSAND DOLLAR sweater.
Maybe you don’t know because you seem to live and die by the upstate NY/East Coast/coastal lifestyle, but just because NY isn’t unbearable anymore, doesn’t mean it’s comfortable. So, go for a linen. Ideally, one that is more than half my rent. (MR.PORTER MAKES YOU PICK A SIZE IF YOU WANT TO SAVE SOMETHING. YOU COULD BE SEVEN FEET TALL FOR ALL I KNOW! I also now realize that I don’t know a single thing about men’s sizing. )
Normal button up but you add a little something. In this case, a harness-detail. It’s like that time Timothee Chalamet wore a sex harness or whatever, but it looks more like a posture corrector than a BDSM thing.
Regular blue sweater, add a British teddy bear. Somehow it becomes Americana?
Layers layers layers. You’ll look like Tony Hawk or like a dad who’s trying to recapture the magic of his youth by learning to skateboard. Complete the outfit with this link
Did someone say Bob Ross?
Show some forearm. Sex sells baby! Pre-designed for Late Night too.
Op3: statement pieces
Take your regular every-night sweater, but make it a lil exciting. Add a peace sign. Funky collar. Make. a. Statement. Make. sum. Magic.
plaid top add some flair!! Leaves. It’s autumnal. Back to school. Of Mother Gaia. Office life versus from the Earth.
Nothing says Emmy nominated television like a Silk Crepe De Chine. Show some nip. Be vulnerable. Sex sells and Emmy voters are buying.
Pay homage to city life with this complicated design. It really kicks your basic blues in their plaids.
Sex sells pt. 3. OR, layer any Op1s underneath it.
See! Just add a fun lil thing.
Nerd alert. But it could be fun…or you might look like you’re trying to be Pete Davidson. If you never try, you’ll never know.
Wally Options
There’s no “Seth Meyers” in team. Wally, you get a makeover too.
This shirt (categorized on SSENSE under ‘tops’) seems like it would have interesting acoustic implications.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say again. Sex sells. If you want to have a successful hostile takeover, you’re going to need to play dirty.
Wally&Crew
Like I said, Bleed. Comcast. Dry. Throw one in for Mr. Shoemaker!!
Writers/Staff
Who doesn’t love a uniform?! This look will guarantee nobody gets a big head going into S10. Make your office look like goopLAB TODAY!
this is excellent content. kudos