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 [...]
Continue Reading...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 [...]
Continue Reading...Some time ago I posted this photograph of Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster from the old Jeeves and Wooster series from British television. Jeeves and Wooster is one of the greatest programs ever for men’s clothing, right up there with Mad Men. The program is set in the period between the first and second world [...]
Continue Reading...Some time ago I spoke to my good friend Art Fawcett about filling a gap in my hat wardrobe, namely a Homburg. He said he’d be glad to, and today is the big day, it has arrived. I have GOT to get a real camera… Art is an artist as well as just being an [...]
Continue Reading...I’ll be honest with you. I hate summer. I know most of you won’t agree with me, but the summer for me is terrible. It’s always too hot, this year being a pleasant exception. I don’t golf. Baseball burned its last bridge with me following the latest strike, and the Premier League has been in [...]
Continue Reading...At the Masonic Society’s forum we’ve been discussing the virtues of Brooks Brothers‘ custom shirt program versus a bespoke or a made-to-measure product from a tailor. I thought it might be valuable to discuss how the made-to-measure process works, at least with the tailor I use. The process is essentially identical with almost all tailors, [...]
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