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February 4, 2015
Learning To Make Your Own Clothes, Part Two
Sometimes the hardest part about learning something new is figuring out how to take those first steps. When I spoke…
February 2, 2015
Learning To Make Your Own Clothes, Part One
Every custom tailor I speak to says the same thing: the trade is dying and young people are no longer…
January 29, 2015
RFID Shields In Tailored Clothing
Jeffery Diduch, a professional tailor and pattern maker for a large ready-to-wear suit manufacturer, published a post yesterday about some…
January 28, 2015
Interview With Sacha Jenkins
Fashionista has an interview with Sacha Jenkins, the director of Fresh Dressed, a new film on the history of hip…
December 29, 2014
Why Do Little Boys Wear Blue?
The Smithsonian has a great article on how children’s clothing became gendered in the 20th century. An excerpt: Little Franklin…
December 16, 2014
Own The Jackets That Nearly Ruined Buzz Bissinger
“Get a U-Haul.” In an e-mail to Matthew, CEO of luxury consignment business Luxeswap, Buzz Bissinger wanted to communicate the…
November 26, 2014
The New-ish Real McCoy’s Store In Soho
These [Real McCoy’s] jeans are smarter than you are, designed with rough labor and nonsense-averse boots in mind, maybe even…
November 15, 2014
Kudos To This Guy (Really)
Earlier this week, we posted about this guy, a British scientist named Matt Taylor. Why? Well, it’s probably pretty obvious….
October 16, 2014
Kimono Exhibits
A bittersweet story in The New York Times recently. Textile historian Terry Satsuki Milhaupt was almost finished with her book…
October 16, 2014
The Fashion Of No Fashion
The New York Times on whether Tim Cook – now a leader in wearable technology – should tuck in his…
September 10, 2014
Are You Wearing Knockoffs?
When we think of knockoffs in fashion, we typically think of the cheap imitations of luxury brands such as Chanel…
September 9, 2014
Why It’s Hard To Take Men’s Fashion Magazines Seriously
This New York Times Magazine piece features a brooding model wearing some beautiful leather jackets in a banal suburban setting….
August 28, 2014
Whither The Metrosexual?
For The Awl, Johanna King-Slutzky considers the culture behind the buzzword, which was first coined in 1994 but peaked in…
August 14, 2014
What Is A Gentleman?
On my way home from work today, walking through Union Station in Los Angeles, I was listening to Fela Kuti’s…
August 7, 2014
Slimmer Clothes Don’t Necessarily Make You Look Slimmer
There’s no bigger myth in menswear today than the idea that slim clothes will make you look slimmer (or conversely,…
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