How to fold a shirt, a sort of craft in itself that is very convenient to know, if you don’t have a butler doing it for you. New old method I’ve been folding my shirts for many years. The other I had to realize I could improve my method. I met Carmela from Camiceria Carmen ...
Planning to order a pair of captoe oxford shoes at Klemann’s made me once again think about the different designs. Here’s a visualization of my thoughts, a short guide to different designs of captoe oxford shoes. Photo: Cleverley The plain captoes in black or brown boxcalf. Unblemished shoes with a lounge suit, yet perhaps a little ...
The Armour of The Cultured Man “In the morning, the day we were to leave, I had been dressed as ...
A short feature on the Icelandic wool sweater. That comes as a surprise, probably. However, among Nordic knits a lopapeysa, ...
Fashion is not only tight. It is soft as well. Most producers of suits and sport coats have minimized the ...
“Smart yet informal, outdoorsy yet intellectual: this was the cool image I desired in the winter of 1976. I wanted ...
A fashion historian noticed that we haven’t seen anything new in fashion from the punk style of the late 1970s ...
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One can look at classic menswear as a set of effects or tools. The most important tool is fit. Firstly, ...
Derek from Die, Workwear writes at length about good taste in a recent article. I think I agree with him ...
Classic menswear and bespoke I should be posting more often, I know. To receive more updates, let me draw your ...
Fashion Fashion affects our view of what is good clothing style. Youngsters see trousers that do not cling around the ...
Interview about the state of menswear The Rake, Russian edition, had a chapter on sartorial voices in Scandinavia in their ...
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Invention of the tartan dinner jacket “Few of my father’s clothes were any use to me after his death. … ...
Rare classical portrait painting Portrait painting today often includes a context or a reference to the person’s life or ethnicity. Classical, ...
It took almost two years from start to finish. Finally, in May I could pick up the tuxedo at Volkmar ...
Annals attribute the costume splendor of the Luchino Visconti movie The Leopard to the Italian designers and tailors Piero ...
The Brits will wear a cut-away coat with black waistcoat and black tie at a funeral, if they follow tradition strictly. ...
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