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May 8, 2018
Five Shoe Styles I’ve Found Useful — And You May Too
Style is personal, very much connected to your lifestyle and personality. Which is why, even though we have some posts…
April 5, 2018
A Practical Guide To Getting Started
It’s crazy to think that Put This On is nearly ten years old, and while we have tons of posts…
February 25, 2018
How To Put Together A Successful Outfit
Bruce Boyer, one of my favorite writers on men’s style, has a great intro to one of his chapters in Eminently…
September 27, 2017
Buy Workwear: Building On Menswear’s Easiest Look
Every once in a while, we’ll get an email from a reader asking if we have suggestions on how to…
September 13, 2017
But What Clothes Do You Truly Wear?
Apparently, people in fashion are just like us. Despite having closets overflowing with options, most people in this business rely…
August 31, 2017
Should You Use Cream Or Wax Polish For Shoes?
After Jesse’s post yesterday on how the US Navy is implementing new rules around shoes, one of our readers emailed…
August 17, 2017
The Put This On Twilight Of Summer Mix
In August, summer seems to get bored with itself. The evening light is a little lazier, the heat lingers but…
July 27, 2017
J. Crew’s New Oxford: More Same Old Than Old School
Today, guys have more options for a decent oxford button-down shirt than they did a decade ago, but few seem…
July 19, 2017
J. Crew Introduces New OCBD
Here’s some exciting news. J. Crew just introduced a new oxford-cloth button-down, which they tout has been modeled after archival…
February 1, 2017
Real People: Style For Older Men
I love this line from Steve Martin: “as the face gets worse, the clothes have to get better.” Neither he nor…
June 29, 2016
The Tailored Cowboy: Ansel Adam’s Personal Style
Art historian Reginald Howard Wilenski once said “all art is the expression of one and the same thing.” So maybe it’s no…
February 25, 2016
What We Can Learn From Mr. Money Mustache
At Put This On, we like saving money as much as, or probably more than, the next guy. Unless the…
January 6, 2016
Why Do We Cuff Our Pants?
For trousers, we may want to conform to a perceived code of dress, or to add a little heft at…
September 9, 2015
How To Get The Right Carrot-fit Pants
“I just buy [Dickies pants] at the local army surplus store in every color. Then I take them to my…
April 6, 2015
Brooks Brothers Changes Shirt Fit Names From Words That Mean Something To Words That Don’t Mean Anything
I must’ve missed this when it happened a couple of months ago, but Brooks Brothers has changed what it calls…
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