<![CDATA[Jezebel: arlo weiner]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: arlo weiner]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/arloweiner http://jezebel.com/tag/arloweiner <![CDATA[Little Big Man: The Return Of The Tiny Mad Men Dandy]]> Everyone's favorite Shakespeare-talking, toilet-loving mini-fop, Arlo "son-of-Matthew" Weiner, is back, with his own GQ fashion spread. And he does dishes!

Arlo's fashion advice is wise-beyond-his eight years ("It's all about contrast...You know, if you're wearing a clean white shirt you should wear a bit of darkness with it"), but best of all is his explanation of this jumpsuit look:

We were playing a game where we hunt down my baby brother. We pretend he's something called a cutie pie-they're really cute but when you offend them they turn into monsters and eat people. I would wear the jumpsuit to school but mostly I've worn it around the house. It's so comfortable. I wear it to do dishes or take out the trash. It's really warm so it's also good for fall.


This is all very fascinating and instructive. But can we hear reviews from some of young Master Weiner's school-mates? One hopes they're appropriately respectful of having a fashion visionary in their midst.

The Littlest Dany [GQ]

Earlier: 8-Year-Old Boy Loves Dressing To The Nines
Mad Men Creator Fathered The World's Most Stylish 8-Year-Old

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<![CDATA[8-Year-Old Boy Loves Dressing To The Nines]]> Meet Arlo Weiner, son of Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner. Arlo loves to wear classic fashions, like tailcoats, gold lamé suit jackets, top hats and fedoras, which some people seem to find amusing.

Arlo became interested in fashion when after watching an old movie, he asked for a top hat and monocle for his third birthday. "I remember that he could barely speak and he told us that's what he wanted," his mother, architect Linda Brettler, said in a L.A. Times article.

While his father's show has set off an obsession with clothes from the 1960s, Arlo's tastes are from an even earlier generation. "We joke that his favorite candy is Coffee Nips — he really likes the Victorian stuff, the ruffled collars, the dandy look," says Brettler, who thinks he gets his style from his parents. "Matt and I have always loved old clothes — I wear mostly old clothes to events and parties," she said. "We also like to encourage the kids to pursue their interests."

But not everyone is as accepting of Arlo's passion for fashion:

Last month, the curious case of Master Weiner's wardrobe went viral; after GQ posted an online style profile dubbing him "America's most stylish eight-year-old," websites weighed in. "Finally someone tops Kanye!" one noted. "This kid is my hero. I must adopt him," decreed another.

Even though internet commenters have a tendency to mock him, Arlo is comfortable with his fashion choices and says his classmates don't tease him that much, even when he wears a tuxedo to school. "Someone might ask why I'm dressed so fancy in a mean way, but I just say I dress this way because I want to," says Arlo.

Arlo Weiner, 8-year-old Fashion Plate [The L.A. Times]

Earlier: Mad Men Creator Fathered The World's Most Stylish 8-Year-Old

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<![CDATA[Mad Men Creator Fathered The World's Most Stylish 8-Year-Old]]> "This is my favorite outfit. The tie is a regular tie, but I tied it like that because I've seen it done that way in old English movies." [GQ]

"Even though the tie and the jacket are different colors, they're both striped, so I thought they looked right together. And I wore the vest and pants together because they're both shades of red."

Arlo Weiner is 8, and he dresses like a foppish Fauntleroy with more than a few magpie touches. Borrowing a cane from Grandma here, turning a sash belt from a bathrobe into a tie there, and digging out an old satchel of his dad's to use as a bookbag, Weiner clearly knows from peaked lapels and crushed velvet. He wears ascots. To school. The young Weiner took a few moments out of his busy day to narrate a selection of his best outfits for a slideshow for GQ.

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