Turnover/Change

• 2016-01-11 10 notes

  

  Hu Bing in - you’ll have to take my word for it - a bright pink bespoke number from Huntsman.

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  The New York Times’ Guy Trebay has a nice insight into the role - or lack thereof - that sound plays in contemporary men’s dress habits:

  “Zola, among others, lavished sensual descriptions upon the sounds made by clothing — the swish of a silk skirt, the fallen-leaves rustle of a woman’s crinolines trailing across parquet. Somehow, in an age of stretch fabrics and sneakers, this aspect of dress got lost.

  Stomping around in a pair of Mr. Browne’s heavy-soled wingtips brought it back for me. The trigger was Mr. Browne’s custom of adding metal taps to his shoes, on both toe and heel.

  And while it’s true that Harrison — a friend’s poodle, with an Upper East Side blow-out — garnered most of the notice as we crossed Fifth Avenue, I was conscious of the way Mr. Browne’s shoes rendered it impossible for me to walk the pavement unheard or unobserved.”
  

  Source: The New York Times

• 2016-01-06 59 notes

  

  Simon Crompton in a bespoke double-breasted Edward Sexton.

  Also worth a read is his (great) recent post on editorial/advertorial policy, here. 

  Source: permanentstyle.co.uk

• 2016-01-04 52 notes

  Berluti: At Their Feet, showcasing a variety of the house’s bespoke creations from their 120-year history, for clients including Bryan Ferry, Jean Cocteau, Dean Martin, Andy Warhol, Alain Delon, and the Duke of Windsor, among many others.  

• 2015-12-31 0 notes

  

  Introducing the “Dapper Deck Deluxe Package”:  

  “An attractive deck of cards crafted from the finest stock and finish, along with a matching silk tie and a 1000 thread count pocket square. 

  The idea here is not to look over-matched or branded. Instead, our hope is that early in your performance, perhaps as the cards are being shuffled, your most astute spectators will notice that the attractive print on the back of your cards is matched to your pocket square and tie.”

  Excuse me, but I think that this is the very definition of over-matched or branded. I have much respect for Joshua Jay, but the notion of (regular, non-magicians) wearing a matching pocket square and tie is bad enough as it is.

  Magicians on the other hand, need all the extra help they can get. As a magician myself, I can confirm that there are no well-dressed magicians. They don’t exist, and the reason for this is because they either go full David Copperfield/Steve Carell/Siegfried and Roy/Gob Bluth-waxed-chest-with-unbuttoned-shirt, or, they wear a matching pocket square and tie. To add a matching deck to the latter only makes the joke that little more cruel. 

  I like what Joshua Jay does as a magician, but if you want to stop the public seeing magicians as badly-dressed, socially-awkward beings, this is not the way to help.

  Source: kickstarter.com

• 2015-12-22 19 notes

  Well-loved Edward Green suede brogues.

  Source: therakejapan.com

• 2015-12-21 32 notes

  

  Source: thesartorialist.com

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  Source: thesartorialist.com

• 2015-12-03 20 notes

  

  Stalking the Wild Madras Wearers of the Ivy League

  “Fifty years ago, when the original edition of ‘Take Ivy’ hit shelves in Tokyo, fashion was far from a point of national pride. It was a matter for law enforcement. On two muggy Saturday nights in September of 1964, plainclothes detectives descended upon Tokyo’s upscale Ginza neighborhood to arrest a group of teen-agers known as the Miyuki Tribe…the young men’s outfits were items that most Japanese had never seen before: shirts made from thick wrinkled oxford cloth with buttons on the collar, three-button madras jackets, shrunken chino pants, and leather shoes with intricate broguing. This new fashion style was called aibii — from the English word ‘Ivy.’”
  

  The New Yorker has a fascinating article on the genesis of Take Ivy, the Japanese fashion photography phenomenon (so popular in fact, it has its own Wikipedia page) that began as a film project. 

  “Whether at Brown, Columbia, or Yale…’Most students acted like they were completely disinterested in fashion, even if they looked like they cared. They didn’t seem proud of being stylish. They would just say to us dismissively, ‘I just came here to study. I don’t care what I wear.’’ When [filmmaker] Kurosu saw a Yale student with high-water cotton pants, he inquired, ‘Are really short pants in style?,’ only to be told defensively, ‘I’ve never thought about it. They just shrunk when I washed them.’”
  

  Source: newyorker.com

• 2015-12-02 35 notes

  

  Lapo, in his loud bespoke suit, hovering over his loud bespoke Ferrari paint job.