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 ...
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 ...
How should we define menswear today? “Smart casual” could be the valid answer. It is a style category, where you make ...
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Interview about the state of menswear The Rake, Russian edition, had a chapter on sartorial voices in Scandinavia in their ...
I see two main traditions in regard to men’s summer style wear. Victorian white summer style There is the white ...
What captures a suit and an attire the better way? Photo or video? On the web we usually prefer a ...
White man and the Solaro cloth The Solaro fabric is a product of colonial man’s unsuccesful endeavors. Based on German ...
Yours truly in the book I’m fond of Baron von Münchausen, who rescues himself from the swamp by pulling himself ...
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Annals attribute the costume splendor of the Luchino Visconti movie The Leopard to the Italian designers and tailors Piero Tosi ...
The Brits will wear a cut-away coat with black waistcoat and black tie at a funeral, if they follow tradition strictly. ...
Forget four, three or one button cuffs. Forget kissing buttons. You can only be elegant with two spread buttons on ...
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