The Armour of The Cultured Man “In the morning, the day we were to leave, I had been dressed as finely as if I were to be photographed, I had been given a new hat and a velvet jacket,” writes Marcel Proust in In Search of Lost Time from the early 1900s. In his work, ...

A short feature on the Icelandic wool sweater. That comes as a surprise, probably. However, among Nordic knits a lopapeysa, as they call their sweater on Iceland, is the most famous species. The Icelandic sweater in Copenhagen In the 19th Century the Icelandic sweater was a dear jumper in Copenhagen signifying honesty. “En islænder”, the ...

Fashion is not only tight. It is soft as well. Most producers of suits and sport coats have minimized the amount of canvas and padding in theirs garments. Cardigan style is fashionable Not surprisingly the soft slim-fit fashion has paved a way for the cardigan. It feels like a sweatshirt or a jersey, yet the ...

“Smart yet informal, outdoorsy yet intellectual: this was the cool image I desired in the winter of 1976. I wanted the clothing (and associated charisma) of Robert Redford as the Watergate reporter Bob Woodward in All the President’s Men. And here was David Jones’ menswear department offering me my dream: a three-piece, corduroy suit. Mustard-coloured. ...

A fashion historian noticed that we haven’t seen anything new in fashion from the punk style of the late 1970s onwards. Ever since fashion has been repeating itself. The popover shirt made me think of the anecdote. The popular popover is in fact a very old shirt design, which comes back in fashion on a ...