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August 23, 2013
That’s Why I Decided To Wear White Socks, Loafers, T-shirts, And Blue Jeans
“In the 1930s there was this tendency in Hollywood to portray everyone as rich. Even if they were doing a…
August 21, 2013
Charles McGrath On The Effort Involved In Effortless Style, 1998
When I was in college, there was a guy famous for wrapping his brand-new Weejuns with duct tape so that…
August 19, 2013
Men (British Men, Anyway) Are Spending More On Shoes Than Women
Industry analysts were shocked by recent market research reports that show that men (British men, anyway) are spending more on…
August 16, 2013
1970s Style With The Rugby Shirt
Rigidly reserving things only for their original intended purpose is for the short of sight and narrow of mind. The…
August 14, 2013
New York Times Piece On Spivack’s Exhibit
It’s probably BS that Hemingway’s shortest story was the six-word “For sale: baby shoes, never worn,” but nevertheless the clothes…
August 9, 2013
Adam Savage’s (Mythbusters) Every Day Carry
I’m not an Everyday Carry fetishist, although I totally understand the eternal appeal of “gear” and the diagrammatic beauty of…
August 7, 2013
Real People: Gray For Leisure
The iron-fisted enforcement of business casual office dress codes means many of us wear suits mostly for non-work occasions, if…
August 6, 2013
Being Slightly Less Boring With Ed Morel And Panta
Ed Morel, proprietor of Panta, poses the central question of classic mens clothing in terms of high school: “I went…
July 30, 2013
The Lovely Thing About Jazz Guys
“The lovely thing about jazz guys in that period—the fifties and sixties—was that they were very handsome men—Duke Ellington, Lester…
July 28, 2013
Vintage Find Bragging From The 1960s
Pierre Cardin, a Frenchman who designs clothes, opened a small menswear shop at Bonwit Teller one evening last week. M….
July 26, 2013
Shopping Kamakura Shirts, New York
After reading Derek’s thorough oxford cloth button down (OCBD) shirt series and some background on Japan’s Kamakura Shirts over at…
July 23, 2013
The Personal Uniform
I try and abide by Archival Clothing’s resolutions, in particular “Come up with a signature uniform. Wear it once a…
July 19, 2013
Cargo Shorts, T-shirt And Hyper-designed Running Shoes
“Well, the ubiquitous uniform nowadays seems to call for cargo shorts, T-shirt and hyper-designed running shoes. It’s a decent enough…
July 13, 2013
The Eighties Drape Suit
When I wear tailored clothing I lean toward a trim silhouette and the lineage of the midcentury Brooks Brothers/J. Press…
July 10, 2013
George Plimpton In The Paris Review
[Tom Wolfe] arrived wearing the white ensemble he is noted for—a white modified homburg, a chalk-white overcoat—but to the surprise…