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Nov 6 2010

Menswear stores in New York City: current picks and destinations of yesteryear

Menswear / By Juhn @ sleevehead / 2 Comments

This 2004 StyleForum thread takes a nostalgic walk down memory lane and recounts the top New York City menswear shops of yesteryear, which have long since closed for business. The line-up included American trad / Ivy League stalwarts (Chipp, Tripler), tailors (Dunhill Tailors), shirts and accessories (Sulka), and Manhattan outposts of Continental European haberdashers (Knize). […]

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Nov 2 2010

Enzo Caruso: An experiment in informality

Craft, Menswear / By Juhn @ sleevehead / 4 Comments

This past summer I visited Santa Monica bespoke tailor Enzo Caruso and laid out my idea for my next commission – a relaxed double-breasted (DB) suit inspired by the drape cut. I have certainly appreciated the DB in a Platonic way (i.e. the idea and form of the DB). However, I have never really taken

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Oct 19 2010

Barcelona revisited: Bel y Cia & Santa Eulalia

Craft, Menswear / By Juhn @ sleevehead / 3 Comments

I was in Barcelona recently and visited a couple of shops that offer RTW and MTM/bespoke: Bel y Cia and Santa Eulalia. Bel y Cia At Bel, I met with Sebastian, the salesman I met three years ago during my last visit, for another order of their classic Teba jacket. As I described in earlier

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Oct 13 2010

Ambrosi in Asia: Neapolitan trousers travel East

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A public service announcement for my Asian readers. The friends of Neapolitan trousermaker Ambrosi have let slip that he will be visiting Asia this month. In particular, Seoul, Korea from October 18 to 20 and Singapore on October 22.

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Oct 12 2010

Kilgour update: Luxe Savile Row and rethinking cottons

Cloth, Craft, Material, Menswear / By Juhn @ sleevehead / 2 Comments

As you may have heard, the classic Savile Row tailoring house Kilgour was recently acquired by new owners and new management often brings changes. One of them is a deliberate effort to go even more upscale in their bespoke and RTW offering. This has meant a couple of things. One is that Kilgour’s off-the-rack or

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Oct 10 2010

Mitteleuropa style: The new Budapester

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Below is Hungarian shoemaker Koronya’s reinterpretation of the sturdy Central European shoe style known as the Budapester. Additional links – Styleforum thread on the new Budapester

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Oct 4 2010

One size does not fit all: Even and odd size ranges in RTW

Menswear / By Juhn @ sleevehead / 4 Comments

The New York Times recently featured an article on the original Filene’s Basement store built in 1909, which showed a photograph taken of two men’s suit racks. The date is uncertain but my best guess is that it dates back at least as early as the 1940s or 1950s. Today it appears most mainstream American

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Sep 28 2010

Review: The Hanger Project clothes hangers

Menswear / By Juhn @ sleevehead / 1 Comment

I recently received several clothes hangers from Kirby Allison of The Hanger Project and have had the opportunity to test drive them. My testing regimen was simple. I set my bespoke suits, jackets and trousers on their new hangers and observed how they fared. With jackets, the most obvious difference is that the collar and

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