In 2009 I wrote about hatwearing and four reasons why men wear hats today. I decided to write about hats because it seemed to me that hatwearing (brimmed hats) among men has picked up in the past five years. So when did hatwearing supposedly die off before making this recent comeback? Some say after World […]
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This is a bit of a thread resurrection from last year but instructive. Every once in awhile a new member introduces himself to the Styleforum or AskAndy by creating a new thread and posting a couple of pictures. More often than not, the results can be fairly entertaining and informative. This is the Styleforum debut
Danish levity and gravitas: Have white shirt and red tie, will make nothing of it Read More »
There is a common belief that wearing suits is somehow antithetical to creativity and originality. From C-level executives to hedge fund masters of the universe, this belief reigns supreme. Gerald Levin, architect of one of the biggest merger failures in business history (AOL Time Warner) comments: What most people don’t recall is that I had
Not feeling creative?: Let’s blame the suits Read More »
If you’re in Amsterdam this month, don’t miss the exhibition “At the Russian Court: Palace and Protocol in the 19th Century” at the Hermitage Amsterdam museum (ends January 31). This inaugural exhibition of the museum recreates the sumptuous materiality of courtly life in 19th century tsarist Russia. For the sartorially inclined, there’s an extensive display
Amsterdam: The Russian bespoke connection Read More »
I was in Amsterdam this month and was thinking of visiting a couple of tailors in my free time. In particular, I wanted to visit New Tailor and De Oost Bespoke and learn a little about Dutch bespoke tailors. But that didn’t work out as planned and instead, interestingly enough, I ended up looking at
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Greetings from January 1935 – some 75 years ago. Here are some highlights from the digital version of the January 1935 issue of Vanity Fair. They show how much dressing has changed over the years and a bit that has remained the same. 1) Highlights from a clothing review of London under King George V’s
The state of the union in men’s clothes . . . in 1935 Read More »
Greetings and happy new year to everyone. Here’s a deceptively innocuous quote by the French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire to start off 2010 – “Style is character.” This equation of person and appearance is related to my previous post on decoding styles. In other words, style often starts from within, not without. It’s a
2010: The substance of style Read More »
Nerd Boyfriend is a clever, visually interesting blog – a kind of historical Sartorialist for the clothing worn by the creative set – well-known artists, writers, musicians, actors, directors and academics of the past. But it departs from the Sartorialist, which focuses exclusively on the visual interest of the contemporary clothes worn by people on
Decoding styles inside out: “The man oft proclaims his apparel” Read More »
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