Every year each of us should go through the process of spring cleaning the closets of our lives, optimizing our sense fashion not only with regard to the clothing and accessories that we wear, but to the spaces we live in and even to the responsibilities we bear as consumers. While many gay boiz try to stay fashionably hip in all phases of there lives, there is sizable subset who find themselves horribly out of step with current trends. Tisk, tisk.

Here now is a list compiled for your own good that should serve as a point of reference to take some of the guess work out of what is "in" and what is "out." To you, I wish "Happy Fashion" in how you look as well as in all that you wear and do!

OUT

-Useless luxury
-Men in all black
-Cheap imports
-Nonrenewable resources
-Houndstooth and herringbone
-Mass-produced for millions
-Elephants & donkeys
-Made in China
-Really expensive jeans with excessive embroidery and other gaudy design elements
-Make believe fairies
-Real animal skins
-Black, white & red
-Oak kitchen cabinets
-Extravagant dog products
-Incandescent light bulbs
-Real horn or ivory
-Provocative Lindsay Lohan
-Faux hawk hairstyle a la David Beckham

IN

-Use-able luxury
-Guys wearing pink
-Made in U.S.A. (even if it is more expensive)
-Green everything: Recycle, Reuse, Reduce
-Bold plaids
-Handmade, authentic, artisanal
-Birds, bees, pigs and independents
-Sophisticated ethnic
-Really expensive jeans with moderate embroidery and other tasteful design elements
-Real life nature
-Animal prints, especially Zebra
-Spice reds and gold
-Pot-racks above the kitchen island
-Handmade boiled wool dog toys
-Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs)
-Bone made to look like horn, ivory
-Wholesome Mylie Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana)
-Traditional hairstyles such as the Slick Back and the Natural Wavy