For when a can of Kiwi and elbow grease is not good enough.
Category: Men’s Clothing (page 55 of 74)
Rake magazine (a men’s clothing publication based out of Asia) has just recently started to add more articles from its issues to its website for free. View them here.
Some highlights:
- The style of Miles Davis
- The navy blazer
- Examination of the shirt
- Gianni Agnelli
- A history of Charvet
- An introduction to formal wear
It would be nice to see the publication add a paid option to view everything online (similar to what Monocle does for its subscribers), as it’s still somewhat difficult to get issues here.
Another good piece from David Colman, who wrote another article on the American look just a few months ago.
Drawing the line between polish and pretension is trickier, especially when last year’s costume can be this year’s classic, and next year’s yawn. Just consider the steady infiltration of 19th-century haberdashery into the 21st-century wardrobe. Garment after garment has arrived on the scene that one might think more Gilbert and Sullivan than Bergdorf and Goodman, only to be taken up by the young beards…
…Similarly, the look’s most popular components — tweedy vests, woolen trousers, henley undershirts, dark wool ties, scratchy cotton shirts — appear to have an added dose of authenticity when unearthed in tucked-away shops like Amoskeag XX and Against Nature on the Lower East Side, or Hollander & Lexer in Brooklyn. Often they are made in New York by small labels like Engineered Garments and Freemans Sporting Club, Mr. Somer’s line.
There are definitely some pieces in this season’s collections that are pure costume (like Engineered Garments Edward jacket), but things like wool ties and three piece suits are classics.
New additions to their website this evening: shirts, sweaters, accessories, along with Bass Weejuns, a weekend bag from WANT Les Essentiels, and boots from Aigle. Their fairly large Christmas catalog is now available to view online as well.
Scans from a manual given to new shoe salesmen long ago. When was the last time you were fitted like this?
Intarsia sweater overload on RalphLauren.com this year.
It’s okay to have one or two of these types of sweaters in your wardrobe for wearing during the holiday season (they’re just as odd as madras jackets, white bucks, and critter chinos). I have this shawl collar cardigan from J.Crew that I had purchased on a bet, and it gets worn only a couple of times a year.
From one of Barney’s holiday mailers. I’ve checked them out in store and they’re all pretty nice, but they seemed 20-30% more expensive than what they should be priced at.
Update: All of the items are now available for purchase on Barneys.com.
Here are the wallets.
Superior Labor has updated their website with items in their FW2009 collection. See the previous post with more images/views.
