Image is my own / All rights reserved Earlier this week I published an article about Joan Didion in which I mentioned how she and other women have helped me figure out how to dress better as a man. In general, the cross-pollination between menswear and womenswear has tended to be rather one-sided. Overall, women […]
Image credit: David Finn / CC BY-SA 4.0 Gordon Parks was born on November 30, 1912, the youngest of fifteen brothers and sisters in a poor tenant farming family in rural Fort Scott, Kansas. It was, as Parks would say, technically Northern but functionally Southern given the institutionalised racism he encountered as a boy. He […]
Striped ties (rep and regimental) have a colourful history, which includes the military, a visit from a prince, and some pranks taken all too seriously. The history of boxer shorts makes for a compelling read, even if you happen to be a briefs man The iconic Sperry Top-Sider came about all thanks to the efforts […]
Pea coats have served the navy since the 18th century and civilian wardrobes since the 1950s. Find out more about their function and outsider appeal here. Docs have been a cultural force for six decades. This is the story of how that happened.