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Intuition

January 22, 2019
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.
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Style on Screen: A Very English Scandal

January 20, 2019
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...
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Style on Film: Eddie Murphy in 48 Hours

January 10, 2019
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...
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Get It Out Of Your System

January 03, 2019
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...
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On Comfort

December 30, 2018
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...
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In the Window

December 23, 2018
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...
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What Defines A Handmade Shoe

December 13, 2018
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...
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