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May 17, 2019
Casual Vests: Okay Layer, Or Unarmed Slobbery?
“A man who wears a vest is a man with nothing up his sleeve.” -Ancient Banana Republic proverb We all…
May 13, 2019
Salute Your Shorts: Military Vintage For Warm Weather
When the military sets out to buy something, they define a gap between what they can do and what they…
March 4, 2019
Get In Liner: Milsurp Liners That Double As Outerwear
Fortune favors the prepared. A few years ago, while surfing for deals on eBay, I stumbled across a cheap Ten…
December 12, 2018
City Hermit: The Style Of Allen Ginsberg
Beat: a word used to describe a group of people, mostly poets, who had in common a general rebellion against…
December 6, 2018
Ivy Workwear Style Via Princeton University’s Beer Jackets
Members of the Princeton class of 1948. Note the white work jackets. A classic Seinfeld bit on helmets goes like…
September 6, 2018
Fall Sports: Track Jackets
Damon Albarn, rudely awakened by the dustman. I hesitated to write about track jackets. As synthetic, shapeless, valuing-comfort-over-appearance leisurewear, they’re…
August 31, 2018
Bobby From Boston’s Warehouse: Vintage Menswear Heaven
This summer, I made a trip to the legendary Brimfield Antique Market to buy for the Put This On Shop. I…
February 10, 2018
Inspiration LA 2018
I love visiting Inspiration, an annual menswear show in Los Angeles headed by the Japanese vintage fiend Rin Tinaka. The…
January 25, 2018
Q+A With Alexander Saunders Of Saunders Militaria
Regular readers of Put This On know that our idea of a fun night might include board games, some kickin’…
December 13, 2017
Bayard In The 1930s: Formal Wear, Kids & Women’s
This is the final entry in our series of looks at a 1930s-era catalog for the French brand Bayard. Certainly…
December 12, 2017
Bayard In The 1930s: Suits
Yesterday we shared some 1930s illustrations of outerwear from Bayard, a French menswear retailer in business since 1925. Today, the…
December 11, 2017
Bayard In The 1930s: Outerwear
In my vast stacks of menswear books and ephemera, I found this beautiful catalog for Vetements Homme Bayard, a French…
December 5, 2017
Crowley Vintage Hits Brooklyn
You may remember Sean Crowley from this PTO Man segment on our show – the Bertie Wooster enthusiast who has…
September 14, 2017
Like Someone Was Thinking About You As They Made It: Repurposed Vintage With Tim Haught Of Countyline General
There’s nothing quite like a great vintage find–flipping through hanger after hanger of throwaway junk on a thrift store rack…
February 23, 2017
Revisiting Military Surplus Cargo Pants
At Put This On, we love military surplus. Vintage, deadstock, or reproduction (sort of cheating), surplus offers interesting and purpose-driven…