Los Angeles: A city shopping guide

September 4th 2023

  By Lucas Nicholson I recently visited Los Angeles for the first time, and spent a very enjoyable week being proved wrong. Admittedly my hopes hadn’t been high for menswear in the city, but what I witnessed was wide appreciation of ...

Los Angeles: A city shopping guide

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I’ll be in LA next month and looking forward to visiting some of these shops. (I lived there decades ago so this is all new, especially the downtown scene.) Visvim looks like a fun space, but at $780 for a t-shirt ($85...

September 4th 2023

Hats with coats: A sliding scale

March 19th 2021

I’m often asked which hats work best with different types of coat. In fact, it often comes up at this time of year - I guess when unexpected showers are more of a hazard. The sliding scale of formality with hats is pretty intuitive: a fedora i...

Hats with coats: A sliding scale

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Thank you Simon....

HatsMarch 19th 2021

Wellema bespoke felt hat: Review

April 6th 2020

This is my first hat from Cody Wellema, the LA-based craftsman that we covered the background on a couple of weeks ago. A hat from Cody is an investment - something that is truly made to last for years, and to be cleaned, reblocked and looked after....

Wellema bespoke felt hat: Review

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Many thanks Simon. Yes I think that will work better....

HatsApril 6th 2020

The quality and style of Wellema hats

March 25th 2020

Everyone you speak to about Cody Wellema (above) agrees on two things. That he’s a lovely, lovely man. And that his hats are top notch. I can certainly attest to the former - and the latter I’ll cover when I review the hat I’m hav...

The quality and style of Wellema hats

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Just come across this site whilst looking at the Wellema site. Some interesting comments about brimmed hats not being appropriate wear in these modern times. I would never have worn one in my younger days mainly because ...

HatsMarch 25th 2020