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December 6, 2019
What Your Beanie Color Says About You
Once worn by blue-collar tradesmen who needed to keep their hair back, the beanie today is a cultural signifier for…
November 11, 2019
How To Think About Color Temperature
A few years ago, I commissioned a custom sport coat from Steed Tailors. The coat is inspired by an iconic…
June 28, 2017
Your In-Between Shirt Color
There’s this old chestnut about the different ways in which English and Italian men dress. It’s said that men in…
March 29, 2017
Colorful Swatch Watch For Spring
One of my favorite accessories these days is a colorful watch from Swatch – the Swiss manufacturer of playful timepieces…
March 27, 2017
J. Crew Color Or Brooklyn Bar Menu Item?
Below are twenty items. Ten are actual names for colors you’ll find on J. Crew’s website, which they used to…
February 20, 2017
A Rundown Of Oxford Shirt Colors
I hesitate to call anything a staple, but I can’t imagine getting by without a handful of oxford-cloth button-down shirts…
November 14, 2016
Real People: Playing With Fall Colors
Ever wonder why fall wardrobe colors are what they are? Some of it is to reflect the mood of the…
October 31, 2016
How To Think About Color
We’ve all been there before. You’re in a store, flipping through a stack of sweaters (or ties or jackets or…
October 24, 2016
Wigwam’s Colorful Ragg Socks
I love ragg socks this time of year. The term ragg refers to an old process whereby waste fibers –…
October 19, 2016
The Advantage Of Simple Colors
There’s a guy on StyleForum who likes to give me heck for wearing simple colors. According to him, my choices…
September 29, 2016
What Color Is Your Collar?
Every four years or so we hear a lot of classification of Americans by the synecdoche of their collar–blue or…
May 16, 2016
Playing With Shirt Colors
It’s been said that Italians are more experimental with their jackets, whereas the English are more adventurous with their shirts….
May 5, 2016
The Case For Color: The Style Of David Hockney
You can steal wholesale from some style icons: McQueen’s sweatshirts, Dean’s jeans, Connery’s suits. But from others, you only hope…
January 13, 2016
Real People: Cloth, Color, And Combinations
For a lot of guys, getting a good balance between the jacket, shirt, tie and pocket square is the trickier…
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