Well, I can’t necessarily take all the credit, but someone at the White House is apparently fed up with flip flops slapping their way through the East Room. Along with other articles of questionable clothing, like shorts, tee shirts, jeans, and sneakers, they are now officially banned from the executive mansion. It’s about time! You…
Tag: Wardrobe/Clothing
Hot Style: Miami
Of the Cuff is down south for a few days; South Beach in Miami, specifically. The difference in style here is remarkable, though not surprising. Men’s fashion in D.C. tends to center on the New England ethic: stylish but understated, essentially the modified Anglophile look. Miami? South Beach? Not so much. Here, the Latino and…
Louis Boston; Make Sure To Get There At Least Once
Today’s DNR News has a great little article about a one-of-a-kind store in my old home town of Boston. Louis Boston is not only a local institution; it is a global style trendsetter. If you are ever in town, make sure to carve out an hour or so to explore this 40,000 square-foot sartorial legend….
Tom Ford, Grown Up & Dressing Well
Sorry for the delay in posting – home sick yesterday and still working toward recovery. I want to talk about Tom Ford today. Normally, I would never begin a sentence with those words; I’ve never been a big fan of Tom. It’s not personal. I just feel that his Gucci years were over the top,…
Classic Style as Environmental Activism
Yesterday, an interesting article appeared in the International Herald Tribune about how some Italians are shedding their ties in an effort to help fight global warming. Blogger David Wescott, over at It’s Not a Lecture sent me the link and declared – tongue in cheek – that focusing on style is helping to destroy the…
Dressing well now an official trend (But we knew that)
Leading news outlets have confirmed something that I have noticed for a while; men are looking to dress well again. At the recent Fashion Week shows in Milan, designers made it clear that they are responding to this demand. The look for men this fall and into next spring will be, in a word, sharp….
Pink Heads for the Green
NEWSFLASH: British shirtmaker Thomas Pink has followed in the footsteps of Hermes and Canali, opening a 3,000-square-foot store in New York City’s financial district. The new outlet, located at 63 Wall Street, is steps from the New York Stock Exchange and bolsters the menswear options targeting the city’s financial professionals. In addition to a delivery…
Personal Style When No One is Looking
David Wescott over at the public affairs blog, It’s Not a Lecture, had some interesting thoughts on my recent “How to Wear a Suit and Look Good” post. He posed a sort of social science question about dressing well: essentially, does it matter what you wear when no one is looking? David has the enviable…
How to Wear a Suit and Look Good
Washington D.C. is beset by a scandal of global proportions. Day after day our standing in the world is diminished and in many quarters we are the laughing stock of more elegantly turned out societies. Of course I am speaking about how American men wear their suits. Slouchy jackets, too long trousers, and sleeves that…
Seersucker in Summer
Now that summer has officially struck, heat and humidity are returning with a vengeance to many parts of the country. Having just spent a couple of days in Charleston, South Carolina, I was pleasantly reminded that men still have a truly creative sartorial flair in that fantastic little city. This is particularly worth noting because…