It’s Cardigan Sweater Time

Fashion and style are often very similar to things like Eastern philosophy or tech gadgetry or film history. We say that because these are all things that it’s good to know a little bit about but often the more knowledge you acquire the less interesting the whole thing is. So we’ve found that we’re not […]

The Chop Approves of Colored Chinos

Usually when we dispense style advice on this site, we’re doing nothing more than rehashing the tried and true basics along with a little local color and a lot of personal bias. Unlike a great number of bloggers operating in the menswear category, You’ll never see us hyping up a Gilt flash sale or suckling […]

Shows and Events Around Baltimore This Weekend

We don’t usually do Weekend Watch or Shortlist type posts here at the Baltimore Chop. We like to leave that kind of thing up to trained professionals like the City Paper and highly skilled amateurs like Showspace, preferring instead to pick favorites and write about what we’re actually doing. This weekend though, that’s tough. There’s […]

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 […]

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 […]