Is it my imagination or have men’s designer t-shirts come a long, long way in the past few years. I remember a time when a ‘t-shirt’ was for working out or hang’in around the house on a Sunday afternoon. Now I see all kinds of cool designer t’s that I could easily wear out to the clubs on a Saturday night. Ya, baby….long live the t-shirt because it not only shows off all my hard work at the gym but they are comfortable as heck.

Brain freeze, it is my girlfriends birthday next week and I was smart enough to ask her what she wanted and I got the reply - Bench, time to crack out the plastic and do a little shopping online. Laterz!

I am finally able to admit it, my style sense and love of fashion is mostly related to casual styling. Sure I enjoy watching the hotties do the catwalk in outrageously cool looking fashion but when it comes time for me to hang-out with my friends I enjoy the laid-back comfort and look of casual clothing. I will take Henleys or G star anytime over a Giorgio Armani Suit or a Calvin Klein Tux.

So whisper behind my back and make faces if you will but when I want to look my best I need to feel comfortable. Catch you at the clubs!

As a fashion student struggling for recognition, Jasmine Sangria (then Sanghera) vowed to help others “when I have a real job.” Now a principal in the It Inc marketing and management firm, she followed through Tuesday. That’s when the Vancouver Fashion Council she co-founded with sister Luvlina helped stage and promote what its present-day-student participants called Not Just Another Lame Fashion Show. The title was a dig at current Vancouver Fashion Week shows by established and rising designers.

Student garments can be all over the map, if seldom all over the body. So it was when Holly Margaret Hunter and Michael A Ninian, Esq. (there’s a student name) aired plenty of their models’ upperworks, Ciji Greene did so below the waist, and Ian Chen’s menswear featured full coverage. Who knows if the tyro designers will get anywhere. But Sangria has, and she’s not backing off the promise she made herself and we find that quite refreshing.