I find most press releases about new menswear launches to be rather depressing. ‘Exciting’ they say. ‘Dynamic’ they boast. It is hardly surprising that the most rudimentary examination usually proves that they are neither. I was recently contacted about one of the new entrants into the London menswear market, Chinese firm Bosideng, who had just opened a three-storey flagship store on South Molton Street between Oxford Street and Brook … [Read more...]
• U.S. Olympic uniforms through the years. 1972 looks good actually. (seattlepi.com) • Cary Grant’s last movie had Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympics as a back drop. (thetrad.blogspot.com) Expect to see a lot of trad staples: tapered trousers, desert boots, blue oxford, knit tie, natural-shouldered sack jacket… and boxers. (thetrad.blogspot.com) • When in Rome… Indulge in a pleasuring place (shop/tailor/barber/spa) that is Wonderfool. … [Read more...]
Anti-clockwise from top left; Team USA, Team Spain, Team Russia, Team Germany, Team Belize, Team Italy, Team Jamaica, Team GB Center; Team China With the summer Olympic games due to start next weekend, central London is in that strange limbo between shutdown and frantic preparation; traffic is rerouted, ticketless neighbours have escaped to the country or the continent and thousands of Londoners prepare for what might be their last week in the … [Read more...]
The summer in London has been, until very recently, absolutely diabolical. So terrible that even the most patient of Londoners have been seen scowling at the skies, asking the question that rouses the happiest of us from a state of passive satisfaction to one of insistent curiosity; why? For it has been, in the words of Edmund Blackadder, “wetter than a haddock’s bathing costume.” The gulfstream, apparently, is to blame; sitting too far … [Read more...]
• How preppies lost to hippies: citations from The Ivy League Guidebook, 1969. (ivy-style.com) • Speaking of Western style trends who better than Japanese to analyze them the best. (heavytweed.blogspot.com) • Some canvas sneakers suggestions beyond Vans and Converse. I’d suggest Vans and Converse though. (well-spent.com) • Minimalist sartorialists will like this: the basic seven-shoe wardrobe or better yet six-plus-one. … [Read more...]
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