Image credit: Tullio Saba / Public domain Folks, we’re approaching the sweet spot of my favourite time of year. Nothing beats the early days of winter in my book. It’s when you still feel the novel thrill of pulling on a coat and scarf (rather than experiencing the dread of their constancy as the season […]
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Image credit: kate gabrielle / CC BY 2.0 One of my very first trips to the cinema after months of housebound isolation during the pandemic was to see a repertory screening of The Servant (1963). If you know the film, you might recognise a degree of irony in this, given that — SPOILER ALERT — […]
Habilitate: (verb) 1. To clothe, dress 2. To make fit or capable, to equip oneself Clothes communicate. They can say a great deal about the person wearing them, while also speaking in other, more subtle ways. To the keen observer, they reveal details about where they come from, how they were made, and how they’ve […]
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Image credit: dusan jovic on Unsplash In 1981, a designer at Casio named Kikuo Ibe secretly went about creating a new kind of timepiece. His motivation was personal. He had recently been heartbroken when a pocket watch given to him by his father shattered when he accidentally dropped it. Ibe’s response was to set about […]
Image credit: jonrawlinson / CC BY 2.0 Since becoming a card-carrying Watch Guy — which, in short, essentially means surrendering all of your free time and mental energy to coveting more timepieces than any one person could ever wear or afford — I have mostly been wearing the kinds of things Watch Guys get excited […]
Image credit: Tomasz Sienicki / CC BY 3.0 In the 1970s, a new technology took hold in a big way. It was powerful enough to unseat Switzerland’s long-standing watchmaking monopoly, establish an entirely new way of timekeeping, and irrevocably change the economics of the watch world. The tech in question was quartz. If you’ve seen […]
Image credit: dz on Unsplash Casio is admittedly something of an odd case study for a menswear site. For one thing, they make watches rather than clothing, and by and large those watches have an ostensibly niche appeal. Moreover, watchmaking is just one part of an otherwise sprawling and multifaceted business empire. You’re as likely […]
Image credit: Tullio Saba / Public domain Reader, it’s that time of year again. Hard as it may be to believe, we have been delivered once more into the holiday season and, if you’re anything like me, you might be experiencing a touch of festive jetlag. Weren’t we still line-drying laundry, watching the sunset after […]