Style Scout: Thomas Rush
Age: 28
Relationship status: Single
Hometown: White Bear Lake, Minn.
Time in Lawrence: 21 hours
Occupation: Entrepreneur
Dream job: Bush pilot
What were you doing when scouted? Reviewing industrial design thesis projects
Describe your style: Based in hippie-dom, but it’s evolved into modern retroness
Fashion trends you love: Hats that look like animal heads, cowboy boots, 1950s male coiffure, bangs on women
Fashion trends you hate: Hipsterism for the sake of it, faking it, contrived glasses frames
Fashion influences: The Air Force, simplicity, natural fibers, cleanliness (look and feel)
What would you like to see more of in Lawrence? Café tables on Mass. Street, public meeting spaces in densely urban areas
Less of? Traffic, motor transportation dependence, chain restaurants
Tattoos or piercings? Not anymore
Who do people say you look like? Tom Cruise or Zach Braff. My roommate calls me Richard Dreyfuss, but I don’t think it’s based in reality.
Tell us a secret … When I drop something, my bottom lip quivers.