The many possibilities of the fabric The more you know about the suit, the more interesting becomes what is the best fabric for suits. The suit fabric is a field where you can vary the blue and gray suit endlessly. By comparison the design, that is pockets, buttons, vents, cuffs and so on, is a ...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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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 Tosi ...
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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