Back in my days of driving everywhere and lazing around campus, a pair of shoes lasted seemingly forever. They may get dirty but never worn out. That was before New York City. Walking in this city does to shoes what driving in LA does to car tires. It’s unbelievable how quickly a pair of shoes [...]

Daniel Akst wrote this article in the Journal a few months ago about how denim “… is an essential co-conspirator in the modern trend toward undifferentiated dressing, in which we all strive to look equally shabby no matter what the occasion.” He goes on to say that Obama should “impose a federal levy on Levi’s” [...]

Yesterday was a big day. Started at the J Crew sample sale, which was a mad house but FULL of beautiful clothes (a post about that to come). Then on to Fashion’s Night Out.
First was Tiffany’s, where a large collection of extremely tall people were enjoying blue square pastries shaped and decorated like gift boxes. [...]

http://garra.jp/style/tailored/index.html
A friend sent this to me a while ago and I had forgotten how cool it was. I’m guessing here because the whole site is in Japanese, but I think its some kind of skin care company that has a separate micro-site that’s a ’style’ section of sorts.

Within the style section there are some very [...]

Picked up this bow tie for $10 at the Hickey Freeman sample sale last week. Very happy about it, not only because the quality is obviously fantastic, but I don’t have any bow ties with the pointed ends like this. And the tweed material and off white color make it very versatile and different. I [...]

Everyone is talking about Harvard’s new clothing line. To me it seems like just another preppy line to go along with J.Crew, J.Press, Brooks Brothers etc. The clothes (pictures of which can be found on many others blogs) look exactly like what everyone was wearing this summer, and probably will be ill fitting to anyone [...]

Watches are getting bigger, gaudier and fancier and it’s getting out of hand. Not only is it not tasteful as taste is usually subtle and refined, but it’s not functional. If your shirt cuff doesn’t fit over your huge watch face, there’s something wrong. I saw this mentioned on The Sartorialist a few days ago [...]

Paul&Shark began making Men’s sportswear in a small medieval town outside Milan in 1977. Their first ever item was the ‘original yachting 918,’ a water-repellant wool sweater with shoulders and elbows reinforced with canvas. Function meets design in this classic nautical sweater, right down to the waterproof can it comes in.

The permanent yachting collection has [...]

Everyone and their mother is riding a fixed gear ‘vintage’ bicycle these days. I was in Williamsburg last night and literally every pole had 10-15 of these beat up old things chained to them. It’s written up in the Times style pages, people are blogging about it and talking about it, everyone wants to know [...]

Here’s something I’ve been looking for for the past few weeks. Timelessly cool, marginally functional, very versatile. They are thin enough to start wearing on cool days without looking ridiculous, but also warm enough to wear into the cooler months before heavy gloves become a necessity. Get some in light tan or reddish brown leather [...]