The two great casual shoe styles of summer are the boat shoe and the driver. Boat shoes are of course the domain of what remains of American prep, worn for leisure with either madras shorts or a madr...
There is no shortage of shirtmakers in Spain. This is particularly so in Madrid, where in the city’s center one can’t walk three blocks without happening upon a sign for a camiseria. Few are worthy o...
Summer does not begin officially until June 20 in the Northern Hemisphere, but in the United States the Memorial Day holiday of the last weekend in May is generally associated with the start of the s...
It being spring and all in the Northern hemisphere, the shirt jacket comes back into its own. Oh, we have them in tweed and in moleskin for running errands in cooler weather but the things really see...
Fathers Day is nearly upon us, bringing with it the opportunity to surprise Dad with something considerably more stylish than boring neckties and generic socks. Give him the thoughtful gift of one of...
London bespoke shoemaker Foster & Son is wrapping up their semi-annual American trunk shoe this week, and I stopped by their suite in San Francisco to let them see how the shoes they made for me this...
I may overdo posting about them from time to time but that is because socks even more than neckties are the most affordable part of the wardrobe to vary and I have been having fun with them this spri...
Just as some men find it difficult to feel relaxed in their clothes, some men feel that they should not be interested in their clothes in the first place and, like de Balzac’s ‘beast’, they just cove...
It’s a mystery that would perplex the finest minds of Her Majesty’s Secret Service. What has happened to all the suits worn by Sean Connery in his first five films as James Bond, released between 196...
With inland temperatures reaching 80 degrees F (27 C), it is time for lighter weight clothing in Northern California. The tweeds and heavy worsteds are put away, and replaced by tropical worsteds, co...
It was the late Hardy Amies who wrote that the time to wear loud socks is with an otherwise monochrome ensemble. In the photograph, Brescianis suitably noisy fire and navy striped cotton hose peek ou...
This week the ASW Haberdashery has expanded its Zimmerli Pureness offerings with non-fading black versions of the Closed Fly Elastic Waistband Pant and the Vee-Necked Tee complementing our Crew Necke...
It is the season now officially, not that such a thing still exists, and men in the Northern Hemisphere can don straw hats without fear of being incorrect. And though he is not wearing one, can any e...
Yesterdays Tommy Nutter postage stamp reminded me that there was a time around forty years ago when Mick Jagger was taking direction (from Nutters shop) and looked very good in a Savile Row rock and ...
Britains Royal Mail has issued a set of ten stamps honoring what it considers the great (British) clothes designs of our time. One of those is a nicely rendered image of Tommy Nutters checked su...
You probably already know that in the early twentieth century wealthy men began wearing cream colored flannel trousers with their navy suit jackets at resorts, a fashion that was the seed of both the...
Brown suits seem to be going the way of the dodo. Never all that popular to begin with, they are being put to death by that hoary old "no brown in town" chestnut. Now by brown I do not mean t...
Sooner or later those of us who read blogs like these (or indeed write for them) are likely to have a flirtation with exotics. There is nothing so everyday that it can’t be jazzed up in some rare mat...
When I was putting together the autographed book program for the ASW store I chose Nick Foulkes Cigar Style as the best in-print example that my readers might enjoy from his very prolific collection ...
After the Second World War, the urban North American coffee-to-go market was arguably dominated by a chain called Dunkin Donuts. Like professionally managed market leaders in many fiel...
In his Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldassare Castigilione describes wit, sprezzatura, and apparent effortlessness in any endeavour, as ‘’a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make wha...
The Mets Costume Institute Gala the other day brought out the usual mass of those whose business it is to be in the public eye. And though it is so easy to be critical, how else are we to learn?We fi...
The four button front on a double breasted jacket is a change of pace whose practical use is to give a jacket the appearance of a little more length, a technique that works admirably on shorter men l...
I wrote in 2009 that black and white spectators were useful principally with white trousers and a blue jacket, but I overlooked another important use for the shoe and that is paired with a cream summ...
A remarkable book of cloth swatches arrived the other day, that being J & J Minnis The Q Project. A new sign of energy at that venerable firm, The Q Project is a modern version of a traditional tailo...
There is a subcategory of knit necktie that offers considerably more variety than its parent, and that is the version in colors and patterns suited for the sunshine. Now I do not suggest that any man...
The basic neckties in a wardrobe should be solids, for the same reason that the first couple of suits should be solid colors, and that is to minimize the frequency of "Didnt he wear that necktie ...
The tailcoat, that evening dress descendant of the English riding jacket worn by André Churchwell in the photograph, is one of those items of clothing that most men have no need to own any longer (Ch...
The blue pinstripe may be the quintessential sunny urban day suit. Becoming popular during the rise of the railroads, whose parallel rails they emulated, pinstripes have been inextricably connected t...
A few dollars or minutes saved on the maintenance of ones tailored clothing can be false economy. In my case, when someone tells me I have a spot on the lapel of my blue cotton suit as my wife did th...
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