by Reginald Jerome de Mans. It never ceases to amuse me. The portion of what we call classic men’s clothing that cannot claim a military origin (as do trenchcoats, khakis, raglan sleeves, cardig...
by Alexander Freeling. It takes a lot of work to make a map, and precious little to copy it. And since map makers, unlike novelists or painters, are all trying to tell the same story, it’s almost...
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans. January 2006. I push the door of Henry Poole in Savile Row for the first time, a length of unusual alpaca Shetland tweed under my arm. A nice-looking young tailor cou...
by David Isle. In an 1838 speech, a young Abraham Lincoln lamented that his generation could never achieve a place in history equal to Washington’s. No glory could compare to the “display before...
by Josh M. “There is no justice in the fashion business,” Karl Lagerfeld once remarked. Indeed, many clothing designers in the United States would agree. Recent years have seen a proliferation of...
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans. Have you, dear reader, heard about Instagram Face? Not an app, but the phenomenon of increasing numbers of people visiting doctors, cosmetic clinics and outright quac...
by Chris Cotonou. The desert boot nearly didn’t happen. Stage set: Burma in the 1950s. While Nathan Clark, of the Clark’s shoe family, is on military duty, he spots the notoriously rowdy ‘Desert R...
by Alexander Freeling. It wasn’t really the start, but it felt like one. As I write this, we’ve been officially confined to our homes in Britain for several weeks: confined not only by caution fo...