America’s oldest clothing company turned a sports shirt into a national symbol and a global sensation. This is the history of the button-down. Jazz up your tie game with the neckwear staple from the 1920s that looks even better a century on. Read here about the history and invention of the multifunctional king of sports- […]
Despite what Psycho fans thought, Tony Perkins didn’t have much in common with the murderous Norman Bates…apart from a wardrobe that slayed. Corduroy, despite having been around in one form or another for millennia, doesn’t get nearly the credit it deserves. The history of Ralph Lauren reveals an unlikely success story that would lead to […]
Image is my own / All rights reserved White jeans’ ecru-coloured star has been on the rise again in recent years and seems to have reached new heights in the last few months. It might be down to a collective sense of excitement at the prospect of re-emerging from our homes. We’re casting off the […]
G.H. Bass & Co. are most often associated with their preppy Weejun loafers, but the brand has a long and somewhat surprising history predating the arrival of the penny loafer. The history of the penny loafer reveals a shoe that may be nearly a century old but continues to feel as cool and contemporary as […]
Image credit: Yasmina H on Unsplash Write what you know — that’s the advice given to just about every author looking to put pen to paper. All told, it’s a pretty helpful guide, especially when you’re sat at a desk in the wee hours wearing nothing but slippers and a bathrobe while staring at a […]
Image credit: Malik Shabazz / CC BY-SA 2.0 Some musicians just don’t dress like you’d expect them to. Who could guess that Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones looks like a Saville Row tailor when Keith Richards is always in Rasta pirate cosplay? Or that the king of neo-folk music, Sufjan Stevens, would eschew generic […]
If you’re at all interested in menswear, you inevitably spend a lot of time looking through photos. There’s all the stuff on social media, plus a tonne of blog posts and magazine content, at least a quarterly supply of lookbooks from various brands, and a near inexhaustible stock of historical images. Looking through old photos […]
Image credit: SPERA / CC BY 2.0 Is there a more chic boot offering out there than the Chelsea boot? Sure, some nice dress boots are always a welcome sight and a pair of similarly-styled but lesser-known jodhpurs are nothing to sniff at, but you would be hard-pressed to find a contender that can beat […]
Image credit: Hugo van Gelderen / CC BY-SA 3.0 ‘I always felt totally out of place with the Rolling Stones,’ Charlie Watts once said in an interview with GQ. ‘Not as a person — they never made me feel like that. I just mean the way I looked.’ Sure enough, while his bandmates have spent […]