How To Make a Savile Row Suit
I've always loved tailored clothing, which means this two-part video from MoMA and iconic Savile Row tailoring house Anderson & Sheppard is basically porn to me.
I've always loved tailored clothing, which means this two-part video from MoMA and iconic Savile Row tailoring house Anderson & Sheppard is basically porn to me.
For job interviews, board meetings, weddings, funerals, nights on the town, and covert operations, the navy suit takes us everywhere.
My prescribed sartorial on-camera upgrade for podcast host, writer, professor, emergent prince of all media and my future ex-boyfriend, Scott Galloway.
Especially in this time of unparalleled uncertainty, a crisp white dress shirt, a tailored jacket and a pair of polished wingtips can help remind me that all civilization is not necessarily lost and maybe even still worth celebrating a bit. Sweatpants don't do that for me.
In an uncertain time when so much has been taken away from us, it's nice to have a reason to get dressed, which takes away some of the sting
Online custom suits can be a daunting and confounding prospect. In this episode, I talk about my own experiences with it.
With the exception of chauffeurs, Secret Service agents, security guards, pallbearers, or gangsters in a Tarantino film, men should generally avoid black suits.
There’s something really nice about shopping for a suit online, picking your fabric, making your customizations (like pick stitching, jacket lining, functional sleeve buttons, trouser cuffs and such), buying it and having it arrive at your home four weeks later, fitting like it was made for you. Because it was literally made for you.
I jumped back onto the saddle this week after a brief but fantastic trip to Palm Beach, Florida last weekend. I have a client down there who showed me the ropes in their little universe both in Palm Beach and in the charming town of Lake Worth.
I’ve said it 1,000 times, and I’ll say it again: Nothing makes a man look better than a well-tailored suit. A recent article in the Washington Post mused about the “death” of the power suit, making me dread yet another excuse for men to frump out and be as casual as humanly possible. The simple truth is that no other garment in menswear elevates any man (fit or fat) like a well-tailored suit. Period.
And speaking of elevating every man…