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Every year, I round up the best Black Friday sales over at Put This On and also highlight my favorites here, along with choice selections from each shop. The goal is to help readers find quality items without making them wade through what feels like an impossibly vast selection. Earlier this week, I listed seven [...] Read More... The post Six More Great Black Friday Sales appeared first on Die,…
Every year, I round up the best Black Friday sales over at Put This On and also highlight my favorites here, along with choice selections from each shop. The goal is to help readers find quality items without making them wade through what feels like an impossibly vast selection. As usual, some stores have started [...] Read More... The post Seven Great Black Friday Sales appeared first on Die,…
I was having dinner with a friend a few weeks ago, who happens to be a reader, and he suggested that I post clippings here whenever I write for other outlets. For those who may not know, my social media accounts have somewhat blown-up in the last few years, growing from about 50,000 followers to [...] Read More... The post Cuttings: Armani Obit, Republican Style, Office Wear, and Bare Chests…
It is a grim feature of modern life that we treat downtime as a pit stop between bursts of usefulness. In the United States, where the Protestant work ethic took the deepest root, even Sabbath observance was shaped by the belief that unproductive time required moral justification. Writing in the early 1930s, Bertrand Russell warned [...] Read More... The post Excited to Wear This Spring appeared…
In 2008, a StyleForum member shared photos of a bespoke shirt they had made by the renowned Neapolitan shirtmaker Anna Matuozzo. Though the images have since been lost to time, they showed a blue-and-white Bengal-striped dress shirt made from Carlo Riva cotton, featuring a semi-spread collar and some extraordinary details. The buttons were firmly shanked, [...] Read More... The post A Basic Shirt…
I believe it was in an old blog post on A Suitable Wardrobe where I came across a Bruce Boyer quote—and I paraphrase—that a well-curated wardrobe is the best incentive to stay in shape. By stay in shape, he meant staying the same size, of course. If you ve invested a considerable amount into clothes that [...] Read More... The post A Basic Shirt Wardrobe, Part One appeared first on Die, Workwear!…
Even when it s online, and you can shop from the comfort of your home, Black Friday always feels like a mad dash to find the best days. To simplify the landscape, I round up the best menswear-related promotions every year and post them here, along with a selection of notable picks at each store. These [...] Read More... The post Ten Of The Best Black Friday Sales appeared first on Die, Workwear! .
About eighteen years ago, Monty Don, the British horticulturist and human Peter Rabbit, penned an article for The Guardian titled “Dirty Dressing.” It was about how to dress for the dirty task of gardening. “Never wear tight trousers,” he advised. “Always buy trousers at least one waist size too big, make sure that the pockets [...] Read More... The post Excited to Wear This Fall appeared first on…
It’s often said that America has not been this divided since the Civil War, but even these tumultuous times pale in comparison to the social unrest of the 1960s, when post-war America’s cleavages along race, gender, and sexuality threatened to rip the nation apart. Within ten short years, the United States saw the unfolding of [...] Read More... The post American Space Cowboys appeared first on…
According to superstition, good luck comes to those who wear at least one new article of clothing on Easter Sunday, the official start of spring (style-wise). For years, I wrote spring style guides for various publications, including Put This On, but as menswear has become balkanized into tiny little communities, I ve found it better to [...] Read More... The post Excited to Wear This Spring…