(from "Clothes and the Man", by Alan Flusser) Reader Ryan writes: Curious, do you have an opinion about darted vs. no...

I am more than a bit overdue with this post, but here is the follow up of the revisions to my jacket from Knot Standard. To review, Knot ...

So it's almost October, and I'm itchy to get into my tweeds and corduroys. But as I write this, it's nearing 80 degrees in Bo...

I heard that the Farmer's Almanac has predicted an unusually cold winter this year. Not that I neccesarily put much stock in the Farm...

Recently good friend James of 10 Engines gave me this suit, straight out of his own closet, to do with what I could. It's the very d...

Lately I've been catching up on all the old movies I'm supposed to have seen but actually haven't. Last night  it was Five Easy...

Back in the 90s, my Dad had a subscription to GQ. This was in the end days of GQ being a publication for professional men interested in a...

Bottles of Bully Boy "Boston Rum" being packaged at the distillery Remarkably, for all the years I have spent in the busi...

The world of so-called "online custom" has exploded in recent years, and as a lover of fine clothes who is also a consummate ch...

Thrift shopping, and living cheaply most of the time, is something of a game without rules. There are so many vagaries to contend with, a...

Just over a year ago, I handed over the first rent check on this little empty room. A few weeks later, I had done my best to dress it up,...

...or something. The kids and I dressed for a "cook out" at a friends house. Being able to wear a bow tie with shorts is a posit...

Sometimes, you just gotta do it to the hilt

I appreciate a really good beer. A rich malty stout on a cold Winter's day; an ethereal wild fermented Belgian sour with a beautiful m...

photo : The Tie Guy Some days, it's easy to get dressed, and others, I can barely put a combo together to save my life. Sometimes yo...

Only recently, at the end of last year, did I discover that I needn't to wear glasses. After one too many times driving home at nig...

A few years back, I was headed to an outdoor Summer wedding, and really wanted a nice straw hat to wear with a tan worsted suit . I searc...