Each year I usually compile a list of Fashion Don’ts on my blog, but this year I’m not going with a list. I’m going to speak about one Fashion Don’t for men that needs to end immediately! And here it is……..

To all of the men who are wearing the label of your suit on the sleeve of the suit coat…………..cut that shit out! This is not cute. You are supposed to remove that label before you wear the suit out in public.

And since I love you like a play cousin, I did a little research online to find out where this trend started in the first place.

The labeled sleeve was a trend a few years back in that segment of our society in which voguing was an important social activity. The contestants in voguing balls often wore merchandise fresh from the store, one way or another (purchased with the intention of returning it or shoplifted), and so sometimes labels or even security tags would be attached.

This, of course, added to the humor of the performance and the ironic fashion of the unremoved sleeve label. The concept caught on to the extent that some men were sending their jeans to the dry cleaners with pocket flashers still attached. The point of voguing is to be outlandish, outré and bad.

As printed on the Men.style.com website, February 2003.

So unless you are voguing in a competition, stop wearing the damn label on your suit coat/sports coat sleeve. You don’t realize how silly you look. It burns me up to see a good looking guy in a nice suit with the label on the sleeve of the coat. If your suit is nice, I’ll compliment you on it, but remove the label.

You know, I hate to call folks out, but it must be done. It’s time for my Summer Fashion Don’ts. And if you fall into any of these categories………………stop it!

1. Don’t wear socks with thong sandals. I saw a guy yesterday who was rockin’ the thong sandals with socks. It’s okay to rock the athletic sandals with socks, but never with thong sandals.

2. Don’t wear tube tops when you have a big gut. Ladies, this must cease. Do you realize how stupid you look? You look like a rubber band on an egg. If your gut is big, a tube top is not your friend.

3. Don’t wear Timberlands in 80°+ weather. I know I said this last summer, but apparently some of you didn’t listen, so it’s worth repeating. Your feet need a break in the summer, and after walking in Timberlands all day when it’s hot as Hades outside, your feet will stink. Men, find a lighter shoe to wear in the summer. Now if you’re a construction worker or some type of maintenance worker, disregard this post. But if you call yourself lookin’ fly for no damn reason at all and are wearing Timbs this summer, especially in the South, cut it out.

4. Don’t wear excessive amounts of makeup. Again, it’s hot outside, so your pores need to breathe. Sweat will build up, which will lead to you wiping your brow and/or entire face quite often. And as a result, your makeup will run like Flo Jo. So little to no makeup is great for the summer.

5. Don’t match everything. You need to break up the monotony of things. Just because you wear an orange shirt, there’s no need to get orange socks, shoes and hat to match. Walking around looking like a Sunkist.

Mother’s Day is a couple of months away. Wanna do some shopping early for dear old Mom? Why not get her a purse? But Nikki, there are soooo many purses on the market today, which one shall I choose? Why the new Louis Vuitton Tribute Patchwork bag, of course.

And what, pray tell, is the price of said bag? A whopping $43,000! Are they fuckin’ serious? Who in their right mind would drop that much loot for such an ugly purse? This purse costs more than a Mercedes SLK280 Roadster.

I swear I could make one of these in a day. All I have to do is hit up my local Goodwill for scraps of leather, Walmart for the Ronco Bedazzler, Petsmart for dog chains and Omega Psi Phi for some gold spray paint to paint the dog chains for the purse strap.