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April 15, 2015
Max Jacob On The Early Days Of Pablo Picasso, May 1923
He is today a dandy, albeit an unaffected one; he was then a Spaniard with wide hat and enveloping cloak….
April 14, 2015
Folding A Larger Pocket Square
Pocket squares don’t have to fit you like a shirt or suit would, but sizing them right can still be…
April 14, 2015
It’s On Sale: Golden Bear And Engineered Garments At Federal
DC doesn’t have many cool guy stores; sometimes my hometown seems to just alternate Brooks Brothers, Starbucks, Brooks Brothers, Starbucks,…
April 9, 2015
Now, Toni, This Will Be Very Informal, Don’t Put Yourself Out, You Can Even Wear Jeans If You Like.’ Jeans!
[President Obama’s office] said, ‘Now, Toni, this will be very informal, don’t put yourself out, you can even wear jeans…
April 7, 2015
We Can Fetishize Anything: Vulcanized Shoes
Eyescream has a neat photo essay up on the Moonstar Manufacturing factory in Kurume, Japan. Moonstar makes pretty basic sneakers…
April 6, 2015
Brooks Brothers Changes Shirt Fit Names From Words That Mean Something To Words That Don’t Mean Anything
I must’ve missed this when it happened a couple of months ago, but Brooks Brothers has changed what it calls…
April 6, 2015
At The Moment My Suits Are Too Small To Contain Me
At the moment my suits are too small to contain me. And this isn’t because I’ve grown too big for…
April 5, 2015
Happy Easter. Smoke Em If You Got Em!
The Kennedy family, Easter in Palm Beach, April 1963. -Pete
April 3, 2015
Real People: Dress Codes
The New York Times has an interesting piece on the style of men who work at Conde Nast, the magazine…
April 2, 2015
Your Style Conscience
This is potentially the creepiest/nerdiest post I’ve ever written, so let’s get that out of the way up front. A…
April 2, 2015
The Common Man’s Crown
In The New York Times Magazine, Troy Patterson pens an ode to the baseball cap–from its origins as a modified…
April 1, 2015
The Secret Of Life In The Big City Is Wear A Suit
The secret of life in the big city is wear a suit, because you can take a shit anywhere. Folks…
March 30, 2015
Half-Shorn Sheep, By Photographer Cary Wolinsky, 1986
Wolinsky explains the difficulty in capturing this image, to illustrate a National Geographic story on wool. It seemed easy enough….
March 25, 2015
I Like Americans
I like Americans… They are the only men in the world, the sight of whom in their shirt-sleeves is not…
March 24, 2015
Real People: Another Take On Suits
Many men, myself included, find suits appealing in part because of math. Suits’ “geometry” and “proportion” are matters of measurement and…