If there’s one thing that readers of this column know it’s that everything matters; shirts, ties, jackets, trousers, braces, buttons – the lot. As soon as you prioritise something, you realise how important something else is. However, there are two items in the gentleman’s wardrobe that are said to require significant thought, consideration and investment, items which can make or break ensembles with their quality: suits and … [Read more...]
Small Menswear Brands with Online Stores
April 20, 2012 | By | 10 Comments
There is a lot of mentioning of ‘micro brands’ recently (and not far off from here: If You Can Buy It at an Airport It Ceases to Be Exclusive, Micro Labels and Brand Longevity), which provoked me to compile a list for my shopping reference. So one of the criteria was that they must sell online. Another was that they’re really small. No chains of shops. Any evidence of largeness excludes them from the list. Though I’m afraid that one or … [Read more...]
Links: Slippers, Vintage, T-shirt…
April 18, 2012 | By | 3 Comments
• Mickey Rourke's bespoke slippers. (permanentstyle.co.uk) • On vintage. (barimavox.blogspot.com) • Finally, a real t-shirt. (thetrad.blogspot.com) • Chaps to stage radical protest on Savile Row. (thechap.net) • A visit to Wolsey. (stylesalvage.blogspot.com) • Marc Guyot Paris: new shop, new shoe. (parisiangentleman.co.uk) • Fixing a pull on a silk Tie. (putthison.com) • Dressing for a weekend night out. … [Read more...]
Don’t Neglect Morning Suit Trousers
April 16, 2012 | By | Leave a Comment
The morning suit, though a type of formal dress used on special occasions today, is very much an ensemble of the past. In its fullest splendour, when a gleaming top hat is the crowning accessory, it is a silhouette of the late-Victorian era, a visual symbol of the 19th century. The emblematic nature of its aesthetic both attracts and repels; traditionalists relish its deployment, modernists recoil from its antiquity. And though it has been … [Read more...]
Sartorial Love/Hate: White Loafers
April 13, 2012 | By | 5 Comments
“What, like Don Johnson?” they asked barely concealing their mirth, as I indicated my intention of pursuing a pair of white loafers for the summer. “No” I responded, wearily “not like Don Johnson.” White loafers are an unusual sartorial prospect. Whenever I have mentioned them, people repeat the word ‘white’ in an emphatically inquisitive manner, as though I had misspoken, as if I had announced my intention to purchase … [Read more...]
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