Needful Things in My Duffel Bag for Summer Travel

I am moving later this summer, and while I am sending most of my things ahead of me, I will stay behind in my empty apartment with just enough clothing to last be half a week or so while I clear up my affairs.

Everything will fit into my Filson Duffel bag. This is the gold standard for duffel bags. more…

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Sports Jacket with Jeans… Is It Doable?

The latest issue of Details magazine has, in one spread, a guy wearing what appears to be a muted grey, brown, and light blue Prince of Wales sports jacket, a blue and white striped shirt with a contrasting white collar, a dark blue dotted tie, and a blue and white pocket square. more…

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Pulling Off the No Tie Look at Workplace

Who says that you have to wear a suit with a tie to look professional? Take a look at how prominent business executives dress these days or perhaps Senator Barack Obama, and you’ll see what we’re talking about. The suit without a tie look evokes the sort of rebellious mystique that used to surround those who wore blue jeans and a black leather jacket 50 years ago. This is new territory for some of you, so we’ll offer up some viable alternatives to wearing a tie and suggest exactly why this look can work for you. more…

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Women Know a Thing about Men’s Fashion Too

Women have always dressed us, whether it is your mother making sure that your collar was down, your shirt tucked in, and that your pants were creased she was probably more of a fashion influence than your old man. Somewhere between dressing to get the attention of the girls we liked and hearing females critique each other’s look, we learned early on in life that looking great was important, and that it could help us to be the best that we could be. more…

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Urban Fashion IS Serious About Style

Urban wear used to carry a very negative connotation in the minds of fashionistas, writers, and editors who felt as though the tried and tested fashion ethos was at risk of being lost to empty values of consumerism in which labels were more important than quality, and the politics of rebellion would win out against the individuality through associations of disenfranchisement of today’s disaffected youth. These are in lot the same individuals who felt that the grunge look or bohemian chic was the end of the world. True fashion is not about breaking all of the rules, just for the sake of doing so, but learning about how the rules relate to the way in which you see yourself in this world, and how you are going to use them to your own advantage. more…

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