Filter:

Mister Crew found a strange comic

February 20, 2014

Mister Crew Found A Strange Comic

Mister Crew found a strange comic this morning as he was trying to find online photos of Steed jackets (Steed…

Read More »

Determining Quality in Leather Goods

February 20, 2014

Determining Quality In Leather Goods

Our friend Réginald-Jérôme de Mans has a very good and very active bullsh*t detector, and there’s surprisingly more bullsh*t on menswear…

Read More »

Short film shot by Andrew Yamato for The Museum at FIT

February 20, 2014

Short Film Shot By Andrew Yamato For The Museum At FIT

This is a lovely short film shot by Andrew Yamato for The Museum at FIT. It’s for their new exhibit…

Read More »

Wearing Boring Outerwear

February 19, 2014

Wearing Boring Outerwear

Next to tailored clothing and shoes, most of my clothing budget is spent on outerwear. In my closet are some…

Read More »

Adolphe Menjou on the feeling of wearing new clothes

February 18, 2014

Adolphe Menjou On The Feeling Of Wearing New Clothes

Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance. All I have to…

Read More »

eBay Roundup

February 18, 2014

EBay Roundup

I got a little lost on eBay over the weekend and ended up spending a bunch of time looking in…

Read More »

Our Beloved Sponsors

February 18, 2014

Our Beloved Sponsors

Our independent menswear is blog is lucky to have the financial support of a few sponsors, so twice a month,…

Read More »

The End of Brands?

February 18, 2014

The End Of Brands?

From Richard Press’ Twitter (yes, of J. Press fame), I found this article by James Surowiecki on the decline of…

Read More »

Collars Just For Tie-Wearing

February 17, 2014

Collars Just For Tie-Wearing

As I’ve expanded my wardrobe over the years, I’ve come to find that I sometimes favor things that are a…

Read More »

Combining the patterns and colours

February 17, 2014

Combining The Patterns And Colours

“Combining the patterns and colours is simply a question of getting a contrast. With a striped suit I wouldn’t wear…

Read More »

Put This On's Inside Track for the week of February 16th - February 22nd

February 15, 2014

Put This On’s Inside Track For The Week Of February 16th – February 22nd

Here are our hand-selected favorites from eBay for this week, plus heads-up on recommended sales. If you’re a member of…

Read More »

eBay Roundup

February 14, 2014

EBay Roundup

There are a number of items that really caught my eye this week: this very comfortable looking Albam cardigan, a game bag that…

Read More »

What Olympic Ice Skating Looked Like in 1924

February 14, 2014

What Olympic Ice Skating Looked Like In 1924

Pictured above: English speed skaters B. H. Sutton (left), L. H. Cambridgeshire (middle), and A. E. Tibbet (right) train in…

Read More »

We Got It For Free: 3sixteen’s Double Black Jeans

February 13, 2014

We Got It For Free: 3sixteen’s Double Black Jeans

I wear “tailored” clothes about half the week (i.e. sport coats, dress shirts, wool trousers, and the like), but for…

Read More »

A Little History On the Casualness of Shell Cordovan

February 12, 2014

A Little History On The Casualness Of Shell Cordovan

Shell cordovan is sometimes thought of as a “dressy leather,” presumably because of how expensive it is, but it’s actually…

Read More »