This Tuesday, January 18th, at 6:30am Eastern US, cable channel Turner Classic Movies will be celebrating the birthday of men’s style icon Cary Grant. Six of his early movies will be aired: Sylvia Scarlett, The Toast of New York, Bringing up Baby, Gunga Din, Only Angels Have Wings and Night and Day. This will be […]
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The occasion: US President Calvin Coolidge congratulating Washington Senator ace pitcher Walter Johnson on winning the 1924 American League baseball championship. At a distance, the first thing to notice is the sea of straw boater hats. If you click on the image for the hi-res version (and click again to magnify), you’ll notice a few
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Best holiday wishes to everyone! Enjoy the gifts you’ve given and received and, most of all, the company you keep. In the meantime, if you know (or are) a gadget geek, you might enjoy the sly, dry British humor of this BBC One skit on the BlackBerry.
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Despite the efforts of provocative designers such as Thom Browne and Kris van Assche, the contemporary Western male is largely conservative regarding color, pattern and cut. We are perhaps the logical culmination of the Great Austerity in men’s clothing that began with Beau Brummell’s simplification of gentlemanly dress in the early 1800s. Of course there
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A couple of years ago I wrote about my visit to high end men’s shoe store Leather Soul in Hawaii. The owner has since expanded to Beverly Hills in Los Angeles and I stopped by the new expansion store earlier this month during the Alden and Cleverly trunk shows. Nate Humble of Alden was on
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I recently had a great chat with newly minted hatmaker Stephen Temkin who launched his initial collection of hats under the Leon Drexler brand. Stephen is based in Toronto and launched his RTW and bespoke hat business earlier this year. If you’re serious about hats, be sure to check his guide to measuring your head
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Here’s a short video documentary of English tailor Jasper Littman at work with a new client on a semi-bespoke or made-to-measure suit. I’m not a customer of Littman but I enjoyed watching the video for some of the commentary and footage of tailors and workshops. Journalist Mads Qvortup and Littman chat about the proprieties of
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The marketing folks at Visa contacted me recently about their online shopping tool Rightcliq. I haven’t had a chance to test drive the tool (which currently supports Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer) but it looks interesting. The tool allows a user to clip and aggregate different products from different online sources and manage them in
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