A Word About Winter Coats

According to the Wire’s Bunk Moreland, ‘A man’s gotta have a code.’ And according to the Rules of Fashion, a man’s gotta have a coat. Seriously, men of Baltimore. We’ve seen you out there this Winter wearing two sweaters or trying to pass off a hoodie for a parka. You look like a bunch of […]

The Chop Approves of The Tie Bar

We’ve already discussed the basics of How to Wear a Tie Casually, but today we’re going to pick up where that post left off and put down a few words of praise for thetiebar.com. Founded by a pair of attorneys who became fed up with paying a fortune for ties, The Tie Bar set out […]

Spring Shoes

There’s a scene in The Devil Wears Prada where Meryl Streep gives Anne Hathaway a very cool and refined dressing down for her ignorance of how fashion cycles work. It’s pretty much all the average person needs to know about High Fashion, and it’s a lesson that we’d all do well not to forget. She […]

Protect Your Neck: A Primer on Scarves

Everybody loves the Fall. Being mid-October, we’re thick in the middle of pumpkin-flavored this and apple-spice that. Personally we can’t get enough of it. A million girls in Uggs and North Face could never trample our enthusiasm for Autumn, and we’re savoring every day of it. A large part of the reason we enjoy it […]

How to Buy Jeans

This isn’t really a post on how to buy jeans. You’re a grown man, right? You know how to buy jeans already. At least you should. It’s not that hard; you just go to the store and try them on and pay for them. The only way you can really fuck it up too badly […]