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September 9, 2013
Neiman Marcus May Be Sold To A Partnership Of Private Equity And The Canadian Pension Plan
Neiman Marcus, the century-old Dallas-based luxury retailer, may be sold to a partnership of private equity and the Canadian Pension…
September 4, 2013
Renuka Rayasam Talks Labeling On The New Yorker’s Currency Blog
Today, companies in Europe apply origin labels only if they want to… and if a German clothier does most of…
September 3, 2013
Field Guide To Field Jackets
In the last couple weeks at Put This On we’ve set up midcentury utility- and sportswear as ideal for easy,…
August 27, 2013
We’re Less Than A Week From Labor Day, The Unofficial End Of Seersucker Season
We’re less than a week from Labor Day, the unofficial end of seersucker season (there’s no governing body for seersucker,…
August 26, 2013
Real People: Stealth Style
“Stealth wealth” is a complicated term. Essentially it refers to expensive things that aren’t aggressively, obviously expensive. Taking a positive…
August 23, 2013
That’s Why I Decided To Wear White Socks, Loafers, T-shirts, And Blue Jeans
“In the 1930s there was this tendency in Hollywood to portray everyone as rich. Even if they were doing a…
August 21, 2013
Charles McGrath On The Effort Involved In Effortless Style, 1998
When I was in college, there was a guy famous for wrapping his brand-new Weejuns with duct tape so that…
August 19, 2013
Men (British Men, Anyway) Are Spending More On Shoes Than Women
Industry analysts were shocked by recent market research reports that show that men (British men, anyway) are spending more on…
August 16, 2013
1970s Style With The Rugby Shirt
Rigidly reserving things only for their original intended purpose is for the short of sight and narrow of mind. The…
August 14, 2013
New York Times Piece On Spivack’s Exhibit
It’s probably BS that Hemingway’s shortest story was the six-word “For sale: baby shoes, never worn,” but nevertheless the clothes…
August 9, 2013
Adam Savage’s (Mythbusters) Every Day Carry
I’m not an Everyday Carry fetishist, although I totally understand the eternal appeal of “gear” and the diagrammatic beauty of…
August 7, 2013
Real People: Gray For Leisure
The iron-fisted enforcement of business casual office dress codes means many of us wear suits mostly for non-work occasions, if…
August 6, 2013
Being Slightly Less Boring With Ed Morel And Panta
Ed Morel, proprietor of Panta, poses the central question of classic mens clothing in terms of high school: “I went…
July 30, 2013
The Lovely Thing About Jazz Guys
“The lovely thing about jazz guys in that period—the fifties and sixties—was that they were very handsome men—Duke Ellington, Lester…
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