Check out this great BNET feature on dressing for work. It is broken down into four subsections that cover the basics of business dress, 10 easy ways to upgrade your look, how to buy a custom-made suit, a short video on dressing for business success. As a sidebar, the section on ordering a custom-made suit…
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Holiday Sale at Tucker Blair For OTC Readers
Preppy belt maker Tucker Blair is in the holiday spirit and Off The Cuff readers are on the receiving end. From now to December 24th, you can get 50% off everything at Tucker Blair. A favorite of OTC, Tucker Blair’s finished needlepoint belts are charming and stylish all at once. Though a new company, its…
Site Update – Blue Is Beautiful
I just want to leave you a quick note to say that I’ll be keeping OTC’s original blue background. Thanks to everyone for their comments and suggestions! The problem is that the color coding for the sidebar links has been altered in the template and is showing up as that dark blue that is difficult…
Variations in Seasonal Marketing
As retailers pull out all the stops to get a share of our dwindling holiday funds, I have come across a variety of interesting marketing approaches. One of the more notable vehicles is the social action campaign at Rugby. Their goal is to tap into the community service idealism of the Rugby target demographic and…
DNR Folds. At Least On Paper
Today is a red letter day in the menswear world. DNR, the bible of the menswear business, published its last stand-alone issue. Moving forward, DNR and Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) will be merging their publications and WWD will begin covering menswear at least on a weekly basis. Fairchild, the parent company of both publications made…
The Gin
Being focused on style has to me always been a holistic thing. Clothes are but one part of life; an important one to be sure, but still just part of the big picture. How you live your life matters too; what you do for a living, how you treat others, how you give back to…
Ask Men.com Style Icons: A Great Resource
The folks over at AskMen.com recently sent me a link to their profile of industrial giant, and father of Fiat, Gianni Agnelli. This founder of the wear-your-watch-on-your-sleeve club was a consummate clothes horse. Of course his clothes were lovely hand made heirlooms so well crafted that his equally eccentric grandson Lapo Elkann still wears them….
The Virtues of Wardrobe Maintenance
Last week I wrote a rather lengthy article focusing on my belief that when times aren’t so good, people tend to go for the classics. When every cent counts, a wardrobe based on longevity and timeless style often wins out over flash and of-the-moment fashion. Focusing on the classics, like a well cut single-breasted grey…
Retail Blues Meet Global Finance
The economic crisis currently scorching balance sheets across the globe has finally reached up to singe some prominent retailers. Companies like Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus and Saks which have so far been able to ride above the economy’s troubled waters, are now getting caught in the unprecedented economic downturn. In a nutshell, people are realizing that…
Yes, He Did.
This evening at 11:00 p.m., ET, Barack Obama was elected the first black president of the United States of America. My son will never know a world without a black president – to him, it will be just another unremarkable fact. And that’s a wonderful thing. In addition to it’s historic role, this coming transition…