Spring/Summer Highlights 2026: De Bonne, Allevol,...
This is our seasonal piece covering the best things I’ve bought recently, with comments on fit and views on style. A useful round-up, a gear review in brief: they’re all things I’ve bought and worn already so I can help out with an...
Spring/Summer Highlights 2026: De Bonne, Allevol,...
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The leg is wider, less tapered, and the rise is higher at the back. Feels like a standard high rise trouser...
Introducing: The Bruce chinos
*Second update: The first batch of the Bruce chinos has sold out, but we are now running a pre-order for the next batch, which will deliver in early June. This will include sizes 42 and 44. If you pre-order and sizes come back through returns and ex...
Introducing: The Bruce chinos
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Hey George, more likely around late June it seems...
Why do my flannels keep wearing through?
I was reading a piece in The Times last month which hailed the flannel trouser as the new trend in menswear. It’s funny how the mainstream can sometimes take a long time to catch up - it must be 15 years since the growth of ‘classic mens...
Why do my flannels keep wearing through?
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Looking at mtm or rtw mid grey flannel trousers. Does anyone have existence with both Cavour and Besnard? Besnard gives a ton of options online and seem reputable. If there are other similar shops please let me know....
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...
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...
Unmilled Coarser Heavier Worsted Wool Twill Trousers
Not everyone likes flannels . They can bag a bit, at least more than the worsteds guys are used to wearing to the office. That just means a press now and again, but hey some people are very lazy busy. If flannels aren’t an option, and it&rsqu...
Unmilled Coarser Heavier Worsted Wool Twill Trousers
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I've only tried it as trousers David, but I would say it's not as warm as flannel, while being a little warmer than most modern suitings...
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,...
Coherence: What we liked in January, that you can...
When I walk around Pitti each season, interviewing makers and researching articles, it can be easy to feel lost in a flood of Italian cashmere and trainers that look like each other. For that reason there are a handful of brands I return to every t...
Coherence: What we liked in January, that you can...
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I wouldn't roll them up, at least on my cord one, as it would be too thick. On thinner materials you could turn them back, yes...
Tokyo: A sartorial shopping guide – 2023 Up...
Tokyo is one of the most varied, creative and stimulating retail experiences in the world. Not only is the city huge, but each area has a distinct feel and atmosphere, reflected in its shopping. There are small, niche brands everywhere, as well as wo...
Tokyo: A sartorial shopping guide – 2023 Up...
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Yes, good point Davide, his work is great...
A shopping guide to ready-made trousers
By Manish Puri If my years of reading Permanent Style have taught me anything, it’s that few things make a man look better than a tailored jacket. If my years of having eyes have taught me anything, it’s that few things make a man look w...
A shopping guide to ready-made trousers
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Hey Colin - no sorry, we don't have any here. I'm sure Anglo would be able to help you out though...
Trousers and what they go with: A sliding scale o...
When we published our second capsule guide to trousers recently, there was a discussion in the comments as to their smartness – and a request for an article setting it out. Now, trousers vary in more than just their material, so this will ...
Trousers and what they go with: A sliding scale o...
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Yes, I've talked about it a fair bit over the years - one, pleats rarely work on me unless the trousers are real high rise, and two, flat fronts are less dressy and easier to dress down or more casually...
Summer Top 10: Polos, more polos, and espadrilles
I wasn’t going to do a ‘high summer’ version of our seasonal Top 10. After all, the spring edition back in April included such things as panama hats and boat shoes. But everyone’s stock has been arriving so late that the int...
Summer Top 10: Polos, more polos, and espadrilles
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I haven't, no...
If you only had five pairs of (casual) trousers
I began the companion piece to this one – looking at smart trousers – by saying that it was the hardest chapter to write in our Wardrobe Building series . I was right. I thought this one would be harder, but it’s not. The p...
If you only had five pairs of (casual) trousers
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Yes I'd say so...
Dege & Skinner lightweight summer jacket: Re...
This brown wool/silk/linen jacket was made in a lightweight model that Savile Row tailor Dege & Skinner introduced last year. It has a thin shoulder pad and no chest canvas, unlike their normal tailoring. I can directly compare the differen...
Dege & Skinner lightweight summer jacket: Re...
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I prefer it without a pattern myself, but I think that's because I prefer subtler styles wherever possible - I don't really wear many checked jackets for that reason for example. So it is personal too...
Brut Archives, Paris: Evolving vintage
Brut is an interesting French brand, and store. Since it was founded by Paul Ben Chemhoun (below) in 2012, it has evolved from a vintage shop, into a home for rescued and reworked clothing, and now its own brand. When I visited earlier this year wi...
Brut Archives, Paris: Evolving vintage
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No I didn't...
Introducing: The olive overshirt (and Summer rest...
This is the new colour of the PS Linen Overshirt - a pale olive green. I love it, but it is a touch unusual so I thought it was worth shooting with different colours, just to illustrate how I think it can work particularly nicely. The overshirt is ...
Introducing: The olive overshirt (and Summer rest...
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The watch pictured is a 1960s Tank Normale measuring 23 x 30mm...
The Spring Top 10: Fun, paper and lavender
It’s that time of the year again. Brands have been receiving all the spring clothing they ordered last year, even though they weren’t quite sure whether it would arrive, or be swallowed by an unexpected lockdown. So rejoice, there are n...
The Spring Top 10: Fun, paper and lavender
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Regarding Trumpers. Apart from ordering a tub of Almond Shaving Cream which is utterly superb and highly concentrated in a very generous 200g tub... probably the best value of all the prestige London barbers, I asked for...
Mohair cardigans and Rubato chinos
These chinos are the Rubato ones I’ve asked them to reissue, which will be available exclusively in the PS pop-up shop on Savile Row next week. They’re not exactly the same as the originals, which were a single pleat where this is a fla...
Mohair cardigans and Rubato chinos
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I ended up selling them unfortunately, the fit didn't work for me but I can't remember why exactly...
If you only had five (smart) trousers
Of all the articles I’ve written in our Wardrobe Building series, this might be the hardest. Even if we’re just looking at smart trousers, the pairs that suit somebody will vary hugely with lifestyle and with taste. A pair of whipcords is...
If you only had five (smart) trousers
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I’ve read many of your articles and have taken many ideas from them. Your work is truly valued....
Anatomica, Paris: The clothes and the history
Anatomica is one of my favourite shops in Paris. It’s unique, with a range of menswear that’s often exclusive to them - whether under their brand or others’ - and always centred around quality. In fact it has such a reputation - of...
Anatomica, Paris: The clothes and the history
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It's often referred to as a Browns Beach waistcoat, after the original maker of the material I believe. Something vintage guys love. If you can wear a waistcoat like that, it's not the hardest one to combine with other t...
Shopping in person at Marrkt, York
I was in York last week. It’s where my wife grew up, and I’ve been dozens of times over the years, though not for the past three or four. The centre has a lot more closed shops since Covid; it’s quite sad. But I did notice one big ...
Shopping in person at Marrkt, York
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My favourite clothes ever: Awards 2022
I have to say, I was really pleased with the reaction to this year’s PS Awards, which were set out here two weeks ago. It’s always nerve-wracking changing the format of a popular series, but after almost 1000 product recommendations from...
My favourite clothes ever: Awards 2022
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Oh good, that's lovely to hear Jack...
Perro: The collection tried and reviewed
I don’t think Per and Rock (below) will mind me saying that when I first saw the products and looks coming from their new brand, Perro , they didn’t have a big impact on me. The two of them - previously at menswear shops Linnegatan 2 an...
Perro: The collection tried and reviewed
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Clutch chinos review: Soundman, Pherrows, Warehou...
This is the latest in a series of articles we are doing on well-made chinos. You can see the previous articles on a contents page here , and listed on the right of this article (on a desktop). Rather than look at one pair that I own, today’s...
Clutch chinos review: Soundman, Pherrows, Warehou...
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I would bet a small fortune that this will be your product sold out the fastest....
Brioni bespoke jacket and trousers: Review
This Brioni jacket was made for me under their bespoke programme, using the London store on Bruton Street. We also made a pair of cotton trousers, which I cover lower down, and a shirt. In our previous article , I made the case for Brioni as a besp...
Brioni bespoke jacket and trousers: Review
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To be honest I disagree a little there, Fe. I think good bespoke has always been a mix of the house style and the preferences of the customer, and if anything one of the things bespoke houses have lost in recent years is...
