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The Unclear History of the Seven Fold Tie

July 18, 2017

by S. Charlie Weyman.   The history of men’s clothing is always told through the same types of characters: the honest and true craftsmen and the dastardly capitalists. In neckwear, it’s said that t...

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Against Intelligent Design

June 29, 2017

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  I write these words with apologies to a personal friend, a man who taught me an enormous number of things, who steered me right when I was thinking of all sorts of aski...

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Judging a Book by its Cover

June 08, 2017

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   It’s raining menswear books, but I’ll save my hallelujahs for the following books that have languished on my to-read list for years, or at least long enough that I’ve ...

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Priorities Straight, Pants Wrinkled

June 06, 2017

by Daniel Penny.   Some men go through life constantly adjusting their appearance: straightening their ties, re-puffing their pocket squares, running their fingers through their hair. As some astut...

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Shoe On-toe-logy

June 01, 2017

by Chris Beadle.   Do you want to look at oxfords, or derbies? This is the first question I ask customers when they ask for a dress shoe option to pair with a suit. This question may seem like a no...

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Old World, New World

May 30, 2017

by David Isle.   Recently a bunch of world leaders had a big sleepover in Sicily, which resulted in the above photograph of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macr...

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On Beauty

May 23, 2017

by Claude T. Hector.   A friend of mine explained the purpose of a tourbillon the other day as I admired his Patek Phillipe. It turns out that the tourbillon was originally invented to solve the pr...

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The Code that Can't be Broken

May 18, 2017

by David Isle.   Economist Tyler Cowen’s recent book The Complacent Class describes, and at times laments, stasis in American life. Among a litany of symptoms, he includes this trenchant observatio...

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