Men rarely wear a necktie on weekends anymore. They feel it will be awkward. I have written about that before. It can be done though. Butler shows how. He is taking a walk by the old fortress on a Sunny, yet somewhat cold spring Sunday. He wears a bespoke golden sport coat from Steven Hitchcock, moleskin trousers from Cordings, ...

I was interviewed about classic menswear for a magazine that Nordea, the large bank, has. A photographer was sent out to photo shoot me, and I grabbed my DB Volkmar Arnulf suit, an off-white shirt (Harvie & Hudson, bespoke), dark red captoes (Warsaw, bespoke), a green-orange handkerchief (Grunwald), and a bold orange tie (Antonio Muro). The ...

When it was common for men to wear a dinner jacket there was room for variation in semi-formal evening wear. You could include a midnight blue tuxedo, and a ecru dinner jacket or cotton madras dinner jacket for summer in your wardrobe. Footwear could vary too. Men were allowed to swap black patent leather shoes with white loafers in ...

Often style will come from idiosyncrasies, which you repeat over and over again, and less so from copying general rules carefully. Lino Leluzzi in his super tight double breasted jackets, extreme cutaway collars, wool tie, and heavily decorated and patinated monk strap shoes is a prime example. Another fellow, which has a trademark attire, is the ...

I enjoy a brown suit. I find it to be the versatile suit. You get both the formality of the suit silhouette and the easygoing mood from the brown shade. Clearly the versaility depends on your work. In some trades brown suits are no-go. If, however, you have the freedom to dress more or less as you please, ...