Evolution in the shoe kingdom has produced a handsome hybrid offspring, the canvas oxford. You’ll be seeing this relaxed take on the classic popping up at retailers everywhere this season. A light neutral pair like these by Generic Surplus plays nicely with trouser (we’re not saying snake) shorts, light color denim, and khakis. Easily categorized [...]
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Spring weather can be more fickle than your hot but crazy ex-girlfriend who broke up and reunited with you on a weekly basis.
A smart accessory that will help take you from chilly to warm in comfort and style is a lightweight (sometimes called spring-weight) scarf. They come in a variety of fabrics from silk to muslin and in any color/print your heart desires. You can tie lightweight scarves in the same traditional [...]
Maintaining good style in the face of a New England winter can seem akin to staying afloat in a dingy during the perfect storm, and nowhere is the struggle more evident than with men’s sweaters.
When the mercury drops, too many men with perfectly good bodies don potato-sack-shaped woollen body bags in the name of warmth. You know, the kind made for hearty sheep farmers herding flock on windy Irish hillsides- [...]
Trend #1: No Rules.
It used to be the case that specific clothing items were “in” or “out” of fashion with everything supposed to be worn a particular way, and being in style meant following those rules. Some men prefer easy-to-follow rules, sensing that fashion freedom will create too much room for error (incidentally, that’s where an image consultant comes in handy). But now fashion, [...]
John Galliano, the fashion designer who revels in his eccentricity so passionately that lady Gaga would look like a plain Jane by his side, is the latest high end designer planning to start courting the Y-chromosome with a lower priced contemporary menswear line.
Galliano’s grandiose uninhibited designs have had an indelible impact on womenswear while he’s been at the helm of Dior as [...]
I promised a client that I would make this little tutorial about how to wrap some different men’s scarves we picked up.
Q: I want to get a monogrammed dress shirt for my boyfriend, where should the letters go?
A: Typically the monogram is applied to the cuff, the upper left chest (like a Polo logo); and for the guy who enjoys having his dress shirts personalized but doesn’t like visible embroidery, it can sewn to the front [...]
Yesterday while shopping with my client for boots he picked up a pair I selected for him, which only came in brown, and said “It’s too bad that I like these so much, I don’t have a lot of brown clothes, and it’s not okay to wear brown and black together.”
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Consider it a like a snuggie for your neck, a tube dress for the throat, and love em or hate em you are going to be seeing snoods everywhere this winter.
Retailers are pushing these impulse purchases out like octomoms perhaps hoping that at their modest price points consumers will realize how cumbersome traditional scarves have become. Snoods originated to [...]