How to look after your shoes
This is the first in a series of videos that we will be doing over the coming months, looking at caring for good clothes. They will be instructional, but not too technical, and we plan to build them up slowly over the year - so for example, not try...
How to look after your shoes
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Ah, yes but that will vary a little - sometimes if they've been on display in the shop they will have had some polish on them already...
Naples: A sartorial shopping guide
Naples has the biggest concentration of high-end handmade menswear in the world. Although not so much for shoes, for tailoring and shirtmaking this is the motherlode, with hundreds of tailors in the city and surrounding region, and thousands working ...
Naples: A sartorial shopping guide
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Probably not, but worth asking the maker if they can perhaps prepare a fitting for you in that time, so you can be fitted and have the finished shirt sent to you...
How to buy a quality tie
A quality tie has greater lustre, greater life and, perhaps, lends its wearer a greater sense of authority. But it’s not as easy as just spending more money. It is easy to analyse though. Made of silk, wrapped around some kind of lining and ...
How to buy a quality tie
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Grenadines don't vary that much, so I'm sure it's good. However, the point about the thick lining is that it's a rule of thumb - something to make you consider the quality of the silk, not to assume it's lesser quality. ...
Sette ties: true seven folds
I am asked fairly regularly to review ties, often produced by new, small companies. Ties are, I suppose, quite easy to sell online and the lower costs of doing so makes them an obvious product to start with. But it surprises me how few of these I lik...
Sette ties: true seven folds
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They make beautiful neckwear. I bought 2 for my clients and the packaging along was worth the experience....
Naples, E Marinella, made to measure tie result
The making of my Marinella tie hasn’t quite gone according to plan. When I received it – admittedly very quickly, after little more than a week – the length was correct but it was the standard width at the bottleneck. As I explained...
Naples, E Marinella, made to measure tie result
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Well, I'd go to the Valet, but also ask Marinella themselves in their shop perhaps...
Fare well Michael Drake
Nice, isn’t it? That’s the view from the pool on the roof of Shoreditch House, where Michael Drake and I had lunch earlier today. The club and its sister outfit, Soho House, were of course in the news a couple of weeks ago for banning tie...
Fare well Michael Drake
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Sky blue!? Not purple? While I'm sure Drake's will remain phenomenal. It won't, for me, be quite the same without Michael. Big suede shoes to fill....
Naples, E Marinella – made to measure tie
It’s easy to be fussy about ties; they are such flimsy things. One can become obsessive about getting the length right, or fiddle with the knot throughout the day. The latter, of course, undermines any impression of easy style. A perfect dimple...
Naples, E Marinella – made to measure tie
It’s easy to be fussy about ties; they are such flimsy things. One can become obsessive about getting the length right, or fiddle with the knot throughout the day. The latter, of course, undermines any impression of ea...
