Back in July I ordered a pseudo-Chesterfield overcoat from my friends at Bookster. I’ve been impatiently waiting for quite a while for its delivery, but today was the day. And I was surprised that today was the day, seeing as how the package tracking insists that the coat is still in New York, which it [...]
Continue Reading...I’ve long been a fan of The Art of Manliness, their feed has been in my sidebar since day one. It pleased but did not surprise me to learn that Brett is a Mad Man. Today Brett posted The Mad Men Guide to a Manly Haircut.
Don Draper and the other men at Sterling Cooper have [...]
I’ve not noticed this showing up on the Brooks Brothers website yet, but it’s an unexpected display of marketing acumen on their part. This is the Brooks Brothers Mad Men suit designed not by Thom Browne (thank God) but the show’s costume designer, Janie Bryant.
Since I can’t find a description of the suit on Brooks’ [...]
This handsome fellow is a carpincho, also known as a capybara. They have two great distinctions, one is that they are the world’s largest rodent. The second, and the reason he graces our page today, is that carpincho leather makes a fine pair of gloves because it only stretches in one direction.
A while back I [...]
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