What’s the hullabaloo about short-sleeves! It’s creating quite the paradox of controversies…from notorious, boring, blasphemous choice of fashion, to even being called “irrationally reviled garment in menswear.” A pariah to the wonderful world of men’s[…]
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The Statesmanly Stripes
Barring the infamous prisoner stripes (which ironically does make a statement of sorts), stripes have long since been the quintessential fashion wear for men. The Legendary status of stripes owes it allegiance to the ‘Breton’[…]
The Smart Casual in You
Wikipedia says: Smart casual is an ambiguously-defined dress code that is generally a neat yet informal attire. Oxford Dictionarionaries.com: (Of clothes) neat, conventional, yet relatively informal in style, especially as worn to conform to a particular dress code. A simple sounding dress code, but quite the conundrum, its connotation never[…]
Style Guide: Button-Down Collars
Designers seem to have a knack of turning the simple into a complex, indecipherable, not-sure-how-to-wear ensemble. We would expect shirt collars to be simple to pick; but between spread, cutaway, club, oversized and shortened, it[…]
Dress like a King with Egyptian Giza Cotton Shirts
Remember Cleopatra seductively picking off grapes from sumptuous bunches held by gorgeous men? How about the ancient Pyramids, packed with treasures to be taken by the Pharaohs into the other world? The Egyptians were the[…]
Dress like a Mannequin
Off-the-rack shirts are for mannequins. Next time you are in a departmental store, sneak in behind the mannequin wearing the shirt like it is custom-crafted for its perfectly proportioned, zero-fat torso. A quick glance will[…]