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Atavism

January 21, 2020

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...

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A Definitive Fix for Golf's Dress Codes

January 14, 2020

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 ...

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On Sustainability

January 07, 2020

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   The theme of sustainability and ethical consumption has now reached the #menswear magazine and blogging world. In brief, it manifests as a call to buy better and to bu...

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On the Signature

December 31, 2019

by Alexander Freeling.   In Britain many things arrive late. New films, trends, technology. The trains, of course, but this is a valuable source of bland conversation for a notoriously non-confront...

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On Holidaywear

December 22, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  Catching up with an old colleague last week, I noticed that this intense, brilliant force of nature, who has dedicated years of her life unflinchingly working to combat...

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Do Both

December 17, 2019

by Claude T. Hector.   I recently returned to work at a retail suit shop and since my return, many a potential shopper has asked me how they should be dressing at work now that most of their worksp...

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Arnys et moi and Me

December 10, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   How do you remember something you never knew? The orphaned opening words of Arnys et moi, journalist Philippe Trétiack’s memoir of the late and legendary Paris shop Ar...

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Heritage

November 29, 2019

by David Isle.   Some people embrace their family name; others attempt to escape it, but they rarely succeed. Clark Rockefeller was of this latter type. Scion of fabled wealth, collector of rare ar...

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