Image credit: Eva Elijas from Pexels It would be hard to overstate the importance of linen to the history of human dress. It’s up there with fur and fig leaves as the earliest material used to cover our bodies. Garments made of flax fibres (linen, in other words, or linum usitatissimum, if you’re feeling fancy) […]
Image credit: Robert Sheie / CC BY 2.0 The history of clothing is littered with stories of happy accidents and moments of inspiration. Paul Sperry finally figured out how to make his boat shoes work after seeing his dog running around in the New England winter. Kikuo Ibe similarly cracked the design for the Casio […]
Image credit: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0 Harrison Ford. The name alone says it all, really. With a first name like ‘Harrison’ and a surname like ‘Ford’, how could the man not have been given that head of hair, that anvil of a jawline, that roguish smile? Today, it’s a title that reads like […]
Image credit: Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels Earlier this week I wrote about buying my first suit as an adult just a few months ago. Starting to branch out into more formal clothing can be a tricky business — in fact, it’s hard to even know where to even begin sometimes. Personally, I spent a long […]
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons / Public domain I’ve often thought that it’s strange Montgomery Clift isn’t spoken of more often as a menswear icon. In a similar vein to what I wrote last week about Humphrey Bogart, it’s not that I think anyone would necessarily dispute the claim that Clift is one; rather, it’s that […]
Image credit: Jeremy Sallee on Unsplash Last week while doing a load of laundry, I walked unsuspectingly into a plumbing disaster. Answering the call of my beeping washing machine late on a sunny Sunday morning, I opened the door as I always do, confidently expecting to find a flowery scented, freshly-spun load of clean clothing. […]
From naval ships to nouveau chic courtesy of one of France’s best-known designers, this is the story of the Breton shirt. 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. Chuck Taylors loom large in the Converse catalogue, […]
When I started getting into watches in earnest, one of the first people I discovered online who shared a similar interest was Kyle Snarr, who you might know as @kyality on Instagram. Kyle’s impressive résumé includes being Head of Partnerships at Worn & Wound, confounding the brand Cantonment, and working with platforms like Vox, The Verge, […]
Image credit: Tullio Saba / Public domain When talking about The King’s clothing choices, it seems natural somehow to begin at the end. Vegas Elvis is inevitably what comes to mind when we think about Elvis Presley’s sense of style. The sequined jumpsuits, the high collars and exposed chest, those mutton chop sideburns and singular […]
Image is my own / All rights reserved While the trend for wearing ‘camo’ as a matter of fashion dates back just a few decades, camouflaged garments of one kind or another will have been among the first ways in which humans covered their bodies. Camouflage — which is to say a pattern intended to […]