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October 10, 2013
It’s On Sale: Barney’s Warehouse
Barney’s Warehouse celebrates Columbus Day (perhaps our most dated-seeming holiday) with additional discounts on suits/sportcoats (50%), ties (40%), and accessories…
October 9, 2013
Norse Store
One of my favorite webshops to browse is Norse Store–I particularly like their sale section, because (1) I’m incorrigibly cheap,…
October 3, 2013
Shopping Vintage: Big Mac Flannels
When vintage shopping goes well, it warms the cockles of my thrifty heart. A great suit that can be altered…
October 1, 2013
Expensive Things: Not Getting Any Cheaper
For years I’ve put off buying one of J. Press’s “Shaggy Dog” shetland sweaters–the fuzzed, Scotland-made wool crewneck that’s a…
September 26, 2013
Lunch With The FT Eats With Tadashi Yanai
Lunch with the FT eats with Tadashi Yanai, owner of Fast Retailing and Uniqlo. It’s a slightly surprising interview in…
September 23, 2013
It’s On Sale: Yoox Sample Sale
Like a giant online euro-TJ Maxx, Yoox gets last season (or older) merchandise from retailers and clears it out at…
September 19, 2013
Real People: Layering Lengths
The ideal men’s casual ensemble, as etched into stone tablets handed down to Steve McQueen by a god resembling On…
September 16, 2013
The Switch
Rigidity about the beginnings and ends of seasons for clothing denies the variability of our climate. Labor Day has come…
September 13, 2013
More Military Surplus: Leathers
Last week’s field jacket roundup addressed primarily cotton field jackets, omitting some other massively influential categories of military outerwear–today we’ll…
September 9, 2013
Neiman Marcus May Be Sold To A Partnership Of Private Equity And The Canadian Pension Plan
Neiman Marcus, the century-old Dallas-based luxury retailer, may be sold to a partnership of private equity and the Canadian Pension…
September 4, 2013
Renuka Rayasam Talks Labeling On The New Yorker’s Currency Blog
Today, companies in Europe apply origin labels only if they want to… and if a German clothier does most of…
September 3, 2013
Field Guide To Field Jackets
In the last couple weeks at Put This On we’ve set up midcentury utility- and sportswear as ideal for easy,…
August 27, 2013
We’re Less Than A Week From Labor Day, The Unofficial End Of Seersucker Season
We’re less than a week from Labor Day, the unofficial end of seersucker season (there’s no governing body for seersucker,…
August 26, 2013
Real People: Stealth Style
“Stealth wealth” is a complicated term. Essentially it refers to expensive things that aren’t aggressively, obviously expensive. Taking a positive…