Do your trousers have a good break? Are you even familiar with that somewhat quaint phrase? It’s a matter that some people, particularly designers, menswear obsessives and general opinioneers, have strong, and I mean, strong views about. I wrote a piece for Bloomberg this week about the proper length of a man’s trouser and the quotes were scorching hot.
Read MoreAdmitting you have too many ties is surprisingly difficult. There’s something to be said for finding the exact right tie when you need it, and as long as that dream exists then the ties will remain. There’s often a story behind a tie, it might be inherited or acquired in some remote country, you might have won it in a game of poker. But there’s also something unsettling about wondering why you’re bidding on a fifth Barbour jacket (even if would be perfect for salmon fishing).
Read MoreAugust is the perfect time for an Éric Rohmer film. They unfold in relaxed settings—lakeside resorts, borrowed, barely furnished country houses, beach towns. The characters are at leisure and, since they’re French, they tend to discuss their theories of love and morality.
Read MoreThis has always been my favorite shirt in any film. Marlon Brando’s Don Corleone has retired. He’s not in the darkened, wood-paneled office but in the sunlight of the garden. He’s forsaken the professional life for the pastoral life.
Read MoreLate night eBay is full of risks an rewards. It’s not unlike late-night writing, except you can always edit in the clear light of day, while a forgotten eBay transgression arrives in a mysterious box at your door. You open it and your worst fears come true.
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