Derek Guy on the Language of Clothing

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Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios

2026-01-21

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A prolific writer on men's fashion, Guy discusses the vocabulary of outerwear and why dress is a form of social language. X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • From Book Smart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

  • I'm Mike Volo, Bob Garfield is away this week.

  • On today's episode, a different kind of language.

  • I think of clothes as a type of social language.

  • So for me, there are very few clothes that would be considered verboten just in the way that,

  • you know, there are many different words.

  • It's just how you string words together and what language you want to use and what you want to express.

  • That's Derek Guy.

  • And if he's right that clothes are a form of social language,

  • then he is one of the most fluent speakers I know.

  • Guy writes about men's clothing at putthison.com and he tweets often at dyeworkwear.

  • That's D-I-E workwear.