Men today, especially young men, can obsess about the fit of the shirt body. Often they want it to be racy, not billowing at the waist. If you don’t wear a tie, or often leave your jacket behind, I understand the shirt body focus. However, if your wear a tie and keep your jacket on ...

Winston Churchill’s siren suit is one of those garments that falls into the category “brilliant & nuts”. From a boiler suit to a siren suit The story goes that Winston Churchill noticed that bricklayers at his Chartwell Estate wore a heavy boiler suit. Next he went to his shirtmaker Turnbull & Asser asking them to make ...

The refined double breasted jacket Jeppe in the leaf fall. He is a canny dresser. This time he sports a bespoke double breasted jacket and grey flannel trousers. Musella Dembech has crafted both garments. The jacket is made up from a vintage cloth, and the trousers are from a range of heavy flannels. The jacket ...

On my latest London trip I read an entertaining memoir, A Short Walk Down Fleet Street (2000) by Alan Watkins (1933-2010), renowned journalist at several papers and magazines on Fleet Street in London. In the 1980s Alan Watkins popularized the phrases “the chattering classes”, “men in suits”, and “young fogey”. The Young Fogey In terms of ...

In an age when people dress for Instagram, video and television patterns are under pressure. Stripes and checks can cause flickering on video and tv, and on Instagram, which you follow on your phone, details like shirt patterns can be hard to identify. Colours work better on Instagram. It also means that the art of combining subtle ...