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Opinions, views, and personal observations from the PTO crew.
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December 14, 2016
Travel Tips From Eight Stylish Men
I love traveling home for the holidays – except the traveling part. Airports are crowded, planes are uncomfortable, and I…
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 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 19, 2016
Style Inspiration Without Clothes
Most menswear editorials revolve around photos of well-dressed men, but some of my favorite sources for style inspiration have nothing…
September 15, 2016
Stop Wearing Suits Like This
I’d like to think that I have a reasonably healthy view on rules. Like Pete, I think rules change over…
September 8, 2016
Rebel Style: Which Style Rules Do You Routinely Break?
“You have to learn the rules before you can break them” is the kind of wisdom imparted by people who…
September 7, 2016
Style And Fashion Drawings: The Casual Suit
One of the hard, cold truths about men’s style is that few things will flatter you more than a…
August 31, 2016
Gentrification And Retailing
Benny Gold, founder and designer behind the eponymous cult streetwear brand, recently penned an interesting piece at Hypebeast. He talks…
August 15, 2016
Sandals: Actually Not Terrible
Sandals are tough sell in the menswear community. Along with black suits and cargo shorts (two things often worn poorly,…
August 11, 2016
Special Guest Post: Knock-About Wear
These are my favorite pair of shoes, a pair of “handsewn one-eye mocs” from Lands’ End. Let’s be clear: they’re cheap,…
August 8, 2016
Thinking About Sheen
One of the downsides of shopping online is that you can’t easily tell if something has any sheen. Unlike when…
July 28, 2016
21 Patterns, Ranked
Objectively correct rankings for 2016. See also colors, ranked. 1. University stripe—the only correct pattern for the most correct shirt,…
July 12, 2016
My Favorite Thing: Sid Mashburn
My Favorite Thing is a column where Put This On asks stylish, interesting, and otherwise cool people to name their…
July 9, 2016
Mister Mort’s Favorite Summer Item
Street style photographer Mister Mort recently talked to The New York Times about his favorite thing this summer: LL Bean’s…
July 7, 2016
My Favorite Thing: Ricky Powell
My Favorite Thing is a column where Put This On asks stylish, interesting, and otherwise cool people to name their…
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