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November 5, 2015
When, Where, What To Wear, According To The Founder Of VAN Jacket
For Lapham’s Quarterly, W. David Marx chronicles the seep of Ivy Style into Japanese culture, an influence strongly pushed by…
October 14, 2015
The Amazing World Of Japanese Textile Arts
After Jesse posted about our Japanese textile scarves on Monday, I found myself Googling around for more info about boro…
October 12, 2015
Our New Antique Japanese Textile Scarves
Boro tends to come in large pieces. Sometimes it’s a coat, sometimes a bedspread. It’s Japanese cotton, milled in the…
September 22, 2015
Japanese Ivy Tailor Tailor Caid
I’m in love with Japanese Ivy tailor Tailor Caid’s slightly stilted and astonishingly charming slogan.
August 6, 2015
Turning Western
In his book Civilization, Harvard professor Niall Ferguson has an interesting chapter on how Japan started adopting Western modes of…
August 5, 2015
Summer In Japan
Some great photos from W. David Marx, showing how some men dressed in Japan shortly before and during the war….
August 5, 2015
Coordination Guide From Men’s Tailoring Magazine Danshi Senka
Coordination guide from men’s tailoring magazine Danshi Senka (男子専科) in the early 1950s. (via W. David Marx)
June 27, 2015
A Word Search, Originally Published As An Advertisement For J. Press In The Japanese Magazine Men’s Club
Via the always-interesting Heavy Tweed Jacket, a word search, originally published as an advertisement for J. Press in the Japanese…
June 24, 2015
Style & Fashion Zine: Fashion Comics From Japan
If you want to get miscellaneous printed matter in the mail, become a public radio host. Every day, my mailbox…
June 14, 2015
StyleForum In Japan
StyleForum sent a few of their writers to Japan this week. Lots of articles are coming soon, but for now,…
December 29, 2014
Where Is The Cool?
One of my favorite menswear blogs is Where is the Cool?, created by Laurent Laporte. Laurent just launched an online…
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…
September 1, 2014
Boro: The Beauty Of Thrift
I’ve become really interested in other forms of textiles lately. Lots of stuff such as Middle Eastern rugs, Navajo weavings,…
August 27, 2014
Artifacts From The Hiroshima Atomic Blast
Slate has some haunting images today of some of the clothes left over from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan….
August 20, 2014
Actual Japanese Workwear
Check out these absolutely stunning Japanese firemen coats. Known as Hanten coats, these were worn by Japanese firefighters in the…
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