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Bastardization

November 21, 2017

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.    Today’s topic has everything to do with bastards, illegitimate marriages of heretical ideas that could make #menswear purists blanche. As with much of what’s viewed a...

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Bond is Dead, Boys

November 07, 2017

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.    Oh, James Bond will return. The end credits of each of his films promise, nay threaten it. Rather, the revelation that newly indicted longtime Donald Trump associate ...

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Pitti the Fool?

October 24, 2017

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   About a decade ago, a kindly assistant at my office nicknamed behind her back (not by me) La Castafiore for her resemblance to the melodramatic Tintin character of tha...

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On Lasting Things

October 10, 2017

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   A great achievement of the classes that rule us is making us love our chains. I had this (almost certainly not original) thought reading the estimable Bruce Boyer’s re...

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Book Review: Master Shoemakers

July 18, 2017

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   There are no prizes for pointing out that the flood of #menswear books of the last few years has drizzled us with a few monographs dedicated to custom tailors, but non...

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Against Intelligent Design

June 29, 2017

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  I write these words with apologies to a personal friend, a man who taught me an enormous number of things, who steered me right when I was thinking of all sorts of aski...

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Judging a Book by its Cover

June 08, 2017

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   It’s raining menswear books, but I’ll save my hallelujahs for the following books that have languished on my to-read list for years, or at least long enough that I’ve ...

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Goodnight, Sour Prince

May 09, 2017

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   The world has recently learned of the retirement from public engagements of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and consort to Her Majesty the Queen of...

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