What I’m looking forward to wearing this summer (...
By Jamie Ferguson. Fourth instalments are usually the best ones right? Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , Fast and Furious , The Phantom Menace … Ah nuts. Well, here’s hoping this chapter in the What I’m Looking ...
What I’m looking forward to wearing this summer (...
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Just picked up the Armoury version as Grenson doesn’t seem to directly offer that particular design. Curious if you ever wear them with socks given they still offer higher breathability than fully-enclosed shoes?...
Double-breasted suit from The Anthology: Review
This recent suit from The Anthology was something I wanted as a casual, easy piece to wear with knits and chambray as much as a shirt and tie. It’s a look I find particularly pleasing in double-breasted styles but casual materials, such as cor...
Double-breasted suit from The Anthology: Review
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Slightly, yes, also affected by the fact the Anthology ones are a touch wider usually...
The low double-breasted jacket: Its history and h...
By Aleks Cvetkovic The low double-breasted jacket is arguably one of the most romantic expressions of tailoring. There’s something about the proportions, the poise and its cinematic past that combine to make it unique. It’s also a silho...
The low double-breasted jacket: Its history and h...
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Understood. I think you might find this similar in use to a hopsack to be honest, but it would be a touch different...
Autumn/Winter highlights – Colbo, Natalino,...
A little late this year, but hopefully this year’s A/W highlights has something for everyone - mid to high price, smart and casual, classic and modern. There’s a particular influence from being in New York recently, and a surprising amou...
Autumn/Winter highlights – Colbo, Natalino,...
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My feelings haven't really changed Daniel, I still love it and think it might be the best of that style of cord jacket I've ever tried. The colour is great with blacks, browns, dark jeans. Not quite so good with greys an...
What I’m looking forward to wearing this winter (...
By Jamie Ferguson. As Jack Frost’s icy fingers slowly begin their wintery crawl across the nation, and that shivering breeze has us reaching for the warm comforts of wool and cashmere, fear not my brethren, for the Prince of Whimsy hath retu...
What I’m looking forward to wearing this winter (...
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It's the Gardiolo, and it's suede (flesh)...
The cream of the crop: My favourite off-white shirts
By Manish Puri . Readers might have noticed that I’m quite fond of a light shirt. *Not honest enough. A breakthrough won’t come if you stay in denial* Readers, if I could be any animal I’d be a cat, the cat that got the cream&helli...
The cream of the crop: My favourite off-white shirts
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New events: Casatlantic, J.Mueser, Subdial, pre-o...
Autumn in the PS Showroom in London is going to be busy. We have Assisi coming back, the normal Permanent Style pop-ups in London and New York, and three new events: J.Mueser, Casatlantic and a pre-owned clothing sale. Plus the watch site Subdial ar...
New events: Casatlantic, J.Mueser, Subdial, pre-o...
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It also looks like a very dark navy to me based on the photo. I also really like the look you posted! In fact, I think a lighter shade of navy would not work as well with these indigo jeans and the dark navy shirt. A nav...
A guide to knitted T-shirts
By Manish Puri . The only suit you’ll ever need. Five hacks to up your style game. The ultimate summer wardrobe cheat code. These are headlines you’re unlikely to ever see on Permanent Style - and if you do it probably means Hell has fi...
A guide to knitted T-shirts
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I recommend the Filippo De Laurentiis crepe cotton and the Zanone Ice Cotton T-shirts. They are more formal than PS T-shirts but still can be easily worn by themselves. The Zanone is particularly well-suited for wearing ...
The vibe of the summer: Lucas’s moodboard S/S 2025
Lucas is a great ‘moodboarder’, much better than me. Where my outfit choices are often driven by individual pieces - their craft and materials - and working outwards to an outfit, Lucas is often the opposite, starting with style inspirat...
The vibe of the summer: Lucas’s moodboard S/S 2025
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Thanks Liam I am glad you found it useful! Often these things are about hitting the timing right and that will be different for everyone! I'm glad you revisited it!...
Postcards from Thailand
By Manish Puri . There’s a scene in Frasier where Niles is packing some clothes to keep at his girlfriend Daphne’s place, for the morning after the nights he stays over. Daphne, becoming increasingly concerned that she doesn’t have...
Postcards from Thailand
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Hi Manish, on such casual shirts, which fit do you aim for the collar? I am size 15 in neck on my shirts. With this measurment they fit exactly perfect around the neck. How much do you care for shirts like the bigman or ...
The versatility of the camel coat
The pre-order for the PS Donegal coats, including this one, will open on Monday. Details in an article then. Instinctively, you wouldn't think a camel-coloured coat (whether actual camelhair or not) would be that versatile. It's not the business s...
The versatility of the camel coat
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Fifthing Luke a whole year later! Every post a mini lookbook....
A contrasting view: Mixing dark trousers with lig...
By Manish Puri . When I started to wear more tailored clothing - and it won’t surprise you to learn that coincided with when I began to read PS regularly - it seemed to me that the epitome of elegance was the ability to mix darker jackets with...
A contrasting view: Mixing dark trousers with lig...
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Glad to know I’m not the only one, Manish. This has always felt most like me, dark bottom, light top. I still do the opposite, but as gorgeous as they look on others I still haven’t committed to a pair of cream trous...
The case for the ‘stimulating’ shirt
By Lucas Nicholson. Whilst nattering away to Simon as I usually do on one of our days working together, I mentioned I had a revelation recently. In my past life at Drake’s, I always favoured slightly eccentric tailoring (cream cord suit anyon...
The case for the ‘stimulating’ shirt
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Hi Lucas, Well worth catching "To the Manor Born", currently being repeated on the Drama Channel in the UK; his suits and shirts matching his wonderful acting.. Seeing him in this and his other TV rolls encouraged me to ...
The versatility of olive: Anthology MTM in PS/Fox...
By Manish Puri. I’ve had my eye on a dark green suit for a long time. So when Simon very kindly offered me a length of the olive flannel that he’d collaborated on with Fox Brothers, I jumped at the chance. To give me an idea of what I wa...
The versatility of olive: Anthology MTM in PS/Fox...
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Thanks so much - that’s incredibly useful....
Personal and practical: How to dress like Alex Natt
I’ve admired the style of photographer Alex Natt – who takes most of the pictures for Permanent Style these days – for several years. He’s not the kind of person to talk about it much, and he certainly doesn’t po...
Personal and practical: How to dress like Alex Natt
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Glad I read through the comments before asking this. Love these shoes, beautifully worn....
Made-to-order Anthology shirt: Review
The Anthology has an interesting shirt offering that I only really discovered recently. Perhaps because it’s not that clearly flagged up on the website. You can get most of their shirts to order, selecting a size that determines the chest and...
Made-to-order Anthology shirt: Review
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Hey Henry, No on my dress shirts I normally have no pleats and darts in the waist. This is just an MTO style from the Anthology so you can't change all those style points...
What I’m looking forward to wearing this winter
By Jamie Ferguson. Hey there Permanent Stylers. Longtime contributor, first time writer so go easy on me. Now I may be in the minority here but I LOVE summer dressing. I enjoy the feeling of a cool breeze betwixt my nethers, brazenly unclasping that...
What I’m looking forward to wearing this winter
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And what quality are those shirts in terms of materials? Are they MOP buttons? Hand stitching?...
Introducing: Japanese denim shirts
A couple of years ago, we discontinued the denim shirts sold on PS largely because of issues with producing and storing the cloth. Since then we’ve been working on alternatives, and finally settled on a Japanese-woven cotton last year. These ...
Introducing: Japanese denim shirts
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No it hasn't, in fact there's been rather a delay with them which is frustrating...
Holiday attire: A sliding scale of formality
By Manish Puri Last week’s article by Simon, ‘Which office are you? A cold current 2024 update’ , focused on cold, wintry colours. I’m here to provide a similar step through using warmer, summery tones. The colours I’ve...
Holiday attire: A sliding scale of formality
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Have you visited Adret? their choices of cloth are something else, 'exotic' yes, different and unique lots of texture yes! cheap? i mean i saw the hand work and it is mind blowing how many hand stitches are in the hems a...
How to pack for a week-long trip: Video
This is the second of two videos we made recently talking through what to pack for travel. The first suggested clothes for a three-day trip - basically wearing one outfit and packing another, but with every piece interchangeable. This second one exp...
How to pack for a week-long trip: Video
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It's the Aspen from Begg. The clothes are all listed at the end of the video....
A Guide To Chambray Shirts – Part Two: Mode...
By Manish Puri In part one of this guide, I provided a brief history of chambray and why it became the de facto choice for work shirts, before turning my focus to shirts on the market that are reproductions of traditional US work shirt models. In th...
A Guide To Chambray Shirts – Part Two: Mode...
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I'd say they are pretty similar in terms of style and utility and versatility to be honest. The advantage of the Bryceland's is you can have it made to order, and so get the fit you want. I do slightly prefer the Rubato ...
Manish’s five bespoke lessons: Picking cloth
By Manish Puri. This article is the second in a series dealing with my personal experiences of having bespoke/MTM clothes made over the last six years. The first covered some of my tips for working with tailors, while this piece focuses on the lesso...
Manish’s five bespoke lessons: Picking cloth
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A navy blazer is undoubtedly the safest choice (my own first bespoke piece was a navy flannel blazer), but its one of drawbacks is, I see often one encounters the same uniform elsewhere. At a recent conference, I saw a g...
Eight outfits I liked at Pitti – and why
Pitti Uomo this year felt busier than last, but that was a little deceptive - two of the big buildings were still closed for lack of exhibitors, and more squeezed into the main pavilion. The show’s future still feels a little uncertain. My ti...
Eight outfits I liked at Pitti – and why
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Manish’s five bespoke lessons: Working with...
By Manish Puri I’ve been commissioning made-to-measure and bespoke garments for six years. In any other sphere, that amount of experience might qualify me as an expert. So, it’s telling about the nature of bespoke - the slow production ...
Manish’s five bespoke lessons: Working with...
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Manish, which bespoke tailors, with an upper budget cap of £2500, can create a mid-night blue or within that ball-park a jacket designed for versatility and comfort, meeting the following specifications: a very relaxed,...
The Permanent Style Anniversary dinner
Last November marked 15 years since the founding of Permanent Style. To celebrate the occasion, we planned two things: a personal dinner with friends in Florence and a more public event in the pop-up shop on Savile Row. The public event, to which al...
The Permanent Style Anniversary dinner
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