Demand: Hooni, 25 July 2009, Boston Common

I mostly talked hair with Hooni, who was from Korea. He cuts his hair in layers and waxes it to get a spiky, pointed look, which he acknowleged was kind of androgynous. (He said he was inspired by Korean actor Won Bin.) We talked about the difference between American and Korean approaches to hair.

American guys want to be more masculine. We're more 50/50. It's a trend in Korea to be a more girlish guy. It's not gay.

Demand: Lauren, 24 July 2009, Loews Boston Common

I approached Lauren because of her massive shades. It turned out that she works at the ICA. We talked about how artists don't wear preppy clothes and whether a preference for Urban Outfitters over Abercrombie & Fitch was really actually sort of arbitrary.

She explained that she'd gotten her moccasins three years ago from Minnetonka Moccasins and that they were real leather.

You're going to a funeral and then a monster truck rally on the same day, and you don't have time to change. What do you wear?

I can't even picture what it would be like at a monster truck rally...

What wouldn't you be caught dead in that your parents might wear?

My mom has some pretty good-looking mom jeans, but I wouldn't wear them.

What's hottest: robots, ninjas, pirates or elves?

Robots.

Why?

My boyfriend walks like a robot.

Supply: Fishs Eddy

I was in Manhattan, on vacation, and my friend asked if we could stop in this store. Fishs Eddy was at first glance a domestics store, but with that kind of understated flair for kitsch that seems to be everywhere now. Below, the photographic evidence.