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Jeans must die! You NEED a pair of chinos!
I am here to tell you that jeans must die. You, man of the Western world, are failing in your sartorial duty. When pressed, it is the humble jeans that you always reach for. The ones your fat, unyielding thighs can barely squeeze into. The ones you can barely button up or zip closed. The…
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Outfit of the Day: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Green Blazer
In keeping with his recent environmentalist commitments, Arnold Schwarzenegger attended a talk on climate change with Tony Blair last week in which he wore a dark green blazer, a pastel blue Oxford cloth button-down shirt with barrel cuffs, and ivory chinos, plus some fine brown cowboy boots. That same day he was interviewed by BBC…
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The excruciating Anna Karenina!
After reading War and Peace a couple of years ago, Anna Karenina was the inevitable follow-up after I had immersed myself in the grand world of Tolstoy’s first great masterpiece. Anna Karenina is perhaps even more acclaimed. Unfortunately, this reader so far does not find the book to his taste. Over the last two weeks…
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AskOkey: Sartorial Genius or Marketing Extraordinaire?
Anybody who is familiar with the menswear corner of YouTube will have detected the rising profile of the entrepreneur Okey Onyegbule, a Nigerian-American businessman based in Dubai, who threw off the daily grind of life in finance some years ago to pursue a lifelong passion – tailoring. Since 2019, Onyegbule and his team have been…
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Spotlight Shoe: Thomas Bird Eastwood Chelsea Boots – A Review
Thomas Bird is a small, as yet obscure company that was founded in 2015 by Adam Bugla and Taro Gibbs, specialising in classic men’s footwear designed in Northampton but with an Italian construction. There are barely any in-depth reviews of this relatively unknown company online outside of the reviews section of their website (to which…
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Spotlight Reads: Bookish Adventures into American History
For the last few months, my reading diet has been dominated by weighty tomes on the Great Men of American history. Perhaps the disturbing events over the water have prompted in me a new spirit of historical investigation, that the precipitous collapse from the empyrean heights of the Hamiltons and Lincolns to the ogre who…
The Dressy Crooner
Reflections on menswear, literature, music and culture from a young fogey in the London suburbs.
The Dressy Crooner
A young fogey from the East of London with old-fashioned tastes in menswear, movies, books and much else.