How to Remove Pills from Sweaters

As we said a couple of weeks ago here on the blog the Chop is particularly excited to be entering the heart of sweater season- particularly cardigan sweater season. But unfortunately it’s not as easy as just reaching into the back of the closet and feeling around for something wool to throw on. Around this […]

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 […]

Less is More: J&M Wallets and Billfolds

We got a bad feeling about this story in the Baltimore Sun on Tuesday. We don’t generally freak out much about crime, but having planned to walk over a large swath of North Baltimore that night, and seeing that the mayor was out doing photo ops for National Night Out… it all just made us […]

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 […]

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 […]