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Activation Energy

September 10, 2019
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   When I first told my parents I wanted a fountain pen, they laughed at me. A generation that had grown up learning to write on the scratchy, messy, finicky things could...
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Book Review: Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem

August 27, 2019
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   Many of the best clothing-industry memoirs, such as Martin Greenfield’s Measure of a Man, spend less time describing the writer’s time in the industry than they do the...
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Suits

August 12, 2019
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  Both business and menswear have cycles, and sometimes the two coincide.   There was a recent minor media kerfuffle when Goldman Sachs, the most prestigious bank on Wall...
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Imagining Naples

August 06, 2019
by Alexander Freeling.   The machines do not work as intended. They are always on the border of total breakdown, held together more by ingenuity than mechanical integrity. “As time goes by, one beg...
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That Which Brings Joy

July 30, 2019
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   Two children’s books come to mind when I think of Marie Kondo.  Fitting, too, as ever since she’s become a sprightly, life-simplifying phenomenon, people on the intern...
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Man, It's a Hot One

July 23, 2019
by Daniel Penny.   For a certain kind of jawnz-loving guy, summer is the worst season of the year. You can’t layer, it’s hard to accessorize, and if you’re like me, everything gets sweaty. This sum...
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