Journal

Easy Jacket

Easy Jacket

Opening our new store in London has given us an opportunity to develop products with a new locale, new makers, new customers and a new climate...
Fab Gorjain - Ready?

Fab Gorjain - Ready?

For the opening of the London store, we commissioned Fab to create an original artwork for the store.   First introduced to him during a...
The Towel Shirt

The Towel Shirt

Written by Tony Sylvester  The towel shirt is a truly intercontinental item, steeped in the history of travel and vacation-making. Nothing indicates that a man...
John Wayne Acapulco 1953

The Cabana Shirt

Written by Tony Sylvester  There’s a very famous photo in menswear circles that does the rounds every year as people start gearing up for summer....
Foul Is Fair

Foul Is Fair

There is a knack to making clothes that are timeless yet novel. To resist the temptation to simply recreate that which has gone before, and...
Chapters: London Store Opening.

Chapters: London Store Opening.

Age creeps up on me, days just keep escaping unnoticed and chapters fly by, and before I have a chance to realise, decades go past...
The Death of the Tie

The Death of the Tie

Written by Ethan Newton    When John F Kennedy presented himself, hatless and sack suited, for his inauguration in 1961, a nation of fedora wearing men...
Gravitas

Gravitas

Written by Ethan Newton  It is no secret that I have proportions on the heavier side of the norm, and certainly a lot heavier than the...
Fit, Visual Weight and Occasion

Fit, Visual Weight and Occasion

Written by Ethan Newton    The history of menswear has given us a rule book that borders on the canonical in it’s strict adherence to historical...
De-mystifying the wardrobe

De-mystifying the wardrobe

Written by Ethan Newton    Our view of ourselves is a complicated thing, and a complex issue with far reaching repercussions on our lives. For as...
Rules vs. Expression

Rules vs. Expression

Written by Ethan Newton    On this point I must play devil’s advocate, and I offer in my defense that I have been daily assaulted by...
In praise of craft and craftsmen

In praise of craft and craftsmen

Written by Ethan Newton  There is a discernible thread that runs through, or rather ties together, various endeavours and endeavourers in this world we inhabit, the...
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