by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans. The best book about Savile Row in 30 years is not actually about Savile Row. No one tailoring house’s history could, really, do justice to the neighborhood of tailors.
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans. Today There Are No Gentlemen, wrote fashion historian and fabulist Nik Cohn in 1971. Upper-class British Member of Parliament Jeremy Thorpe was soon to prove him righ...
by Claude T. Hector. Reggie Hammond was the epitome of cool to me when I was a kid. Hammond, as portrayed by Eddie Murphy, possessed several attributes that I wish that I had. He displayed all of...
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans. Among the many forms of self-abuse that we iGents need to disabuse ourselves at some point in our sartorial Ausbildung is the idea that because anything is theoretical...
by Alexander Freeling. It tingles. In Charles Duhigg’s book The Power of Habit, alongside the more familiar stories of learnt behavior, impulse control, and the expectation-reward arc which makes...
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans. Long ago, when your correspondent was only beginning his sartorial journey, a well-informed Paris resident offered him these wise words: “The most beautiful shoes of th...
by S. Charlie Weyman. It’s confusing, but the terms “benchgrade” and “handgrade” don’t actually describe shoes that were made on a bench or by hand. Instead, they’re ways of denoting different le...
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans. The struggle for sartorial revolution creates strange alliances. It’s rare to find another style writer with whom I would link arms and, in the words of an Internet sa...