Check out this well-edited business casual look by DocHolliday on Styleforum. He wears a bold windowpane sports jacket but “mutes” the boldness with a small-patterned tie and solid white shirt. Definitely one of the best “what are you wearing” photos I’ve seen recently on Styleforum or anywhere else. Are you curious about double-breasted suits but […]
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Ever spot a well-dressed person walking down the street and wonder a bit about him or her? I recently stumbled across this YouTube clip of Beautiful Stranger, a fashion-oriented street interview series in New York: This triggered the following flight of fancy. Perhaps an enterprising, media-savvy reader of Sleevehead could do the same but dedicated
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In a recent Styleforum thread, I was struck by this statement regarding the chest pocket on jackets: “A human chest is curved, a suit has curvature in the chest, so anything applied to the chest [e.g. a chest pocket] needs to be curved as well.” The idea is intriguing due to its literalist, quasi-Lamarckian overtones.
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Let’s talk about one of the most common tailoring polarities discussed on the discussion fora. And it rests on the shoulder, so to speak. It is often asserted that structured shoulders (e.g. the classic Savile Row cut) look and feel substantially different than unstructured or soft shoulders (Anderson & Sheppard or the Neapolitans). That would
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Experimentation. I think it’s a good antidote to the excessive seriousness that occasionally undermines the bespoke journey. To that end, I recently picked up a Western-style shirt from Freddy Vandecasteele. It’s similar to the one Freddy is wearing but lacks the two-tone treatment, features a modified scalloping of the front yoke, has different pockets and
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Update: Thanks to all those who have filled out the survey! The response has been great and I will leave the survey active on Surveymonkey. If you encounter any issues with the survey, please post a comment or send an email to sleevehead [at] gmail.com. Regarding publication, I am hoping to publish the results in
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Certain men look good in nearly every imaginable cut/silhouette and shoulder treatment. These are rare men endowed with naturally fit and lean frames and half-square shoulders. Can the same be said for specific shoulder treatments (i.e. soft v. structured shoulders)? Is one shoulder the best-looking one for all men? Some declare the natural shoulder look
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I touched on the topic of tying necktie knots in an earlier entry. Thanks to a recent StyleForum thread, I’m linking to a couple of useful visual tutorials to tying bow ties in particular. The first is a Washington Post slide show which is especially thorough and specific in its explanation. The second is a
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