May 2012
12 posts
The Cream Waistcoat
There was a time around forty years ago when Mick Jagger was taking styling cues from Tommy Nutter’s shop and looked very good in a Savile Row rock and roll dandy kind of way. I would place him in that period ahead of a contemporary like Bryan Ferry today, for example, and that is not small praise. And that is relevant because today the younger Mr. Jagger is giving us another demonstration...
An Outfit Worthy of Emulation
You probably already know that in the early twentieth century wealthy men began wearing cream colored flannel trousers with their navy suit jackets at resorts, a fashion that was the seed of both the blazer specifically and the odd jacket generally. And to this day the most classic trouser to wear with a blazer during the day is cream colored, like the best dressed former President in the...
On Brown Suits
Brown suits seem to be going the way of the dodo. Never all that popular to begin with, they are being put to death by that hoary old “no brown in town” chestnut. Now by brown I do not mean tan, or patterned tweed necessarily, but true brown whether flannel for winter, gabardine for spring and fall, or cotton and linen for warmer weather. And that is because brown is a country and...
The Four-Button Front
The four-button front on a double-breasted jacket is a change of pace whose practical use is to give a jacket the appearance of a little more length, a technique that works admirably on shorter men like the Duke of Windsor in the top photo. Four buttons can also give a linen or other casual jacket a bit of extra panache when the top two are keystoned (that is, spread wider than the ones beneath...
