by Alexander Freeling. When walking to work recently I passed three tourists taking photos. Hardly surprising in a town that’s full of visitors for three quarters of the year, but I felt a quiet ...
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans. I have to hand it to my friend Hari Sakka, a member of long standing of the Pairov Institute, for reminding me of the ridiculous list of baseball player names made up ...
by David Isle. Once upon a time, the obstacles to buying a new velvet coat included not only the expense but, if you were not born into the right family, laws preventing you from wearing certain f...
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans. There are so many different kinds of dandyism. Most books on dandies attempt to suggest they are all of many conflicting concepts of the word, so that the very least ...
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans. Today’s Alternative Style Icon hails from Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People: The Bourgeois Revolutionary. What can he teach us? To answer...
by Daniel Penny. In 2020, I resolved to buy fewer clothes for myself. The problem is that I have a lot of opinions about clothes and over the years, have developed a roving eye, always searching ...
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans. In this tie, and in my reasons for tracking down and buying it 20 years after it was made. Atavism is, loosely, a reversion to ancestral traits. What do you do when y...
by Steve Gottschling. 2020 is the year golf courses will gradually roll out the World Handicap System, which merges six measurements into one convenient way to determine exactly how terrible you ...