A guide to the best shops to buy men’s clothing in Scotland’s capital city. Bing Crosby was the butt of many clothing-related anecdotes, but he may be a low-key style god in the making. You don’t have to have read — or even heard of — French author Michel Leiris to appreciate his sick outfits. […]
Image credit: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration / Public domain Today marks the arrival of a long-awaited PBS documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick about Ernest Hemingway. The three-part series is timed to coincide, somewhat macabrely, with the sixtieth anniversary of his death. While Hemmingway is one of the most talked-about and oft-photographed […]
Image credit: Charles Mallison / CC BY-SA 3.0 Michel Leiris is one of the countless French authors who I haven’t read but whose wardrobes I’ve studied with the breathless enthusiasm of a newly-arrived exchange student a Paris. Leiris, of course, was much more than just a writer. A multihyphenate of the first order, his résumé […]
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Image credit: Tullio Saba / Public domain Just shy of a hundred years after its initial publication, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) has been making headlines again in recent times. As of 1 January 2021, the novel entered the public domain, which garnered fresh media attention for a book that has long been […]
You don’t have to have read — or even heard of — French author Michel Leiris to appreciate his sick outfits. Beckett, despite his present-day reputation as unlikely fashion icon, was consistently described as slovenly throughout his lifetime. Tennessee Williams had a wardrobe that was every bit as vibey as the plays he wrote. John […]
Image credit: Tullio Saba / Public domain I have to confess at the outset here that I’ve never managed to get very far reading Italo Calvino. I took a course on world literature once at university in which Calvino loomed large as a pre-eminent example of a postmodern author, but I just couldn’t get into […]
Image credit: Budgeron Bach from Pexels Friends, I have finally seen the light. For many years now — without ever understanding the full implications of my actions — I’ve been wearing jean shorts. It all started back when I was a teen, hacking off the legs of my torn up skinny jeans in summer because […]