My Favourite Madras Shirt: Original Madras Tradin...
By Manish Puri In 1973, Ranjit Shah left his hometown of Madras (now Chennai) carrying a suitcase full of cloth swatches and emigrated to New York City. Within a few years, he’d established Original Madras Trading Company (OMTC) on West 38th S...
My Favourite Madras Shirt: Original Madras Tradin...
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Agreed. Lovely shot and lovely outfit Manish!...
Friday Polos, Linen Overshirts and T-shirts: The ...
There are quite a few things to catch up on with regards to PS products, and it feels like readers have quite a few questions too, given the number that have come up in comments. So it might be good to have all of those answered in one place. First,...
Friday Polos, Linen Overshirts and T-shirts: The ...
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Hey Mateusz, I'm afraid that will be too soon, yes. They will probably be in there during October...
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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Hey Josh, The shoulder widths are: S - 44cm M - 46 L - 49 XL - 50 XXL - 52...
Introducing: The Suede Overshirt
A few readers have asked over the years about a suede overshirt on PS - particularly following the series of articles we did this time last year, on jacket substitutes like overshirts , chores and tebas . So when we visited the suede workshop Rifug...
Introducing: The Suede Overshirt
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Hey Zawaad, I think you're probably right, but we are talking to Rifugio about doing an MTO system with this shirt, which would allow for a greater range of sizes...
Buck Mason, Novesta, New & Lingwood: Spring ...
Our seasonal summary of things I’ve seen and liked rolls around again, and as ever is a good mechanism to answer questions about new products from established brands, such as the City Moc from Saman Amel (above). But it’s also, by design...
Buck Mason, Novesta, New & Lingwood: Spring ...
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Hey Mike, I'd wear it with something like brown chinos or flannels and then black loafers or boots. Or perhaps charcoal trousers and brown boots, something along those lines. I also wear it with the first combination and...
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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Looks casual enough probably...
A Guide To Chambray Shirts – Part One: Repr...
By Manish Puri Imagine a Venn diagram with three rings representing quality cloth, construction and design. If you buy an item of clothing that sits in one of those rings you’re still doing better than half the landfill-peddled-as-fashion you&...
A Guide To Chambray Shirts – Part One: Repr...
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I think you can't judge smartness based solely on fabric. What about the shirt collar? Spread is smarter than button-down. What about chest pockets? A cleaner shirt is smarter than one with pockets or flaps. There are al...
Wythe: Tasteful and accessible Americana
Peter Middleton is an affable Texan with a real passion for fabrics. We talked previously for a PS piece on Navajo rugs , and also for an article about the design side of Ralph Lauren , where Peter (above, right) worked in fabric research. But when ...
Wythe: Tasteful and accessible Americana
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Thank you!...
The importance of visiting your makers (repeatedly)
Readers have asked in the past what it’s like developing new clothing, what helps and hinders, what the challenges are. One piece of advice a friend gave me a while ago was to visit the factory more than you think - that even a one-day, flying...
The importance of visiting your makers (repeatedly)
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Cheers Riccardo, yes you can't really ever please/fit the majority of people...
Rolling shirt sleeves
An area we rarely talk about in menswear is how we wear clothes, rather than which ones we choose. Buttoning shirts, wearing collars up, belting trench coats and so on. I know, it’s classic overthinking. No one needs to be told how to roll the...
Rolling shirt sleeves
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You doubt if rolling or pushing back the sleeves looks flattering, but I disagree. I believe most things with long sleeves that is not a jacket or a coat doesn't look good without sleeves pushed back. Whenever I take off...
Reader profile: Ian
Ian is retired, and got into luxury menswear late in life. But he always had an interest in clothes, from his early days in Ivy clothing to the forties and fifties influences that came with learning jive dancing. It could be easy to see him as bein...
Reader profile: Ian
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Amazing! I bet Ian must have loved that. Thanks for letting me know...
Speciale: Fine Florentine tailoring and haberdashery
Speciale is a beautiful little shop in the west of London, making fine bespoke tailoring and unique shirts and knits. I should have covered Bert and George earlier and I haven't, and it's entirely my fault. My only excuse is location. Speciale is a...
Speciale: Fine Florentine tailoring and haberdashery
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Hey Josh - finally got confirmation, it's Holland & Sherry 2024002...
How much do you actually know? An interview with ...
By Manish Puri A few months ago I had the privilege of speaking with Alan Flusser about the history of New York bespoke tailoring . From the opening beats of our conversation it was clear that Alan wasn’t about to be constrained by the narrow ...
How much do you actually know? An interview with ...
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In response to Ned Brown. Surely you recall Shep Miller located on Jobs La, Southampton! He also had a shop in Palm Beach. He had a wonderful selection of very colorful mens resort wear. I was a frequent customer....
Schostal: Socks, shirts and pyjamas in Rome
In quite a few European cities, including most in Italy I’ve visited, you see small, slightly old-fashioned shops selling underwear and nightwear, often with these little hand-written price cards. Although charming, the quality in these shops...
Schostal: Socks, shirts and pyjamas in Rome
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Thanks Nikolai, that is a lovely shop and I should cover it, 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...
Tokyo: A sartorial shopping guide – 2023 Up...
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Currently in Tokyo on holiday and unable to find any dry cleaners to do a quick turnaround. Hotel doesn't offer it and local places are quoting a week or even a month! If anyone knows of a fast service in the Ginza area ...
Spring/Summer Top 10 ’23: Shirts, shorts an...
It may still be cold outside (in the UK), but it’s late April and time for a write-up of the Spring/Summer pieces I’ve liked from our favourite brands. If you have any questions about other releases from these brands (or indeed brands n...
Spring/Summer Top 10 ’23: Shirts, shorts an...
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It's hard to tell Ayush, but if they were pyjamas I'd probably use something softer, like a light cotton...
New pink and green-stripe oxford shirts
Two new stripes in the PS Oxford shirt have been added to the shop today: a light pink and a pale green . As is often the case with PS products, they have been chosen as particularly understated, easy-to-wear styles. The pink is the same as that us...
New pink and green-stripe oxford shirts
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We received half, now waiting on the other half.......
The Simone Abbarchi workshop, in a little street,...
I know shirtmaker Simone Abbarchi has a lot of PS customers in London and New York. They might like to know - and see - where their shirts are made. It’s a little workshop about 10 minutes drive outside of Florence. Simone arrives every morni...
The Simone Abbarchi workshop, in a little street,...
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Thank your for this view behind the curtains! I like the trend the people want to know how and were their clothed are made. Too long we just thought about styling - and too less about the conditions behind it....
Esquire ‘Five Fits’ feature: Tonal sh...
Esquire magazine in the US recently profiled me for a column - their 'five fits' feature . It's run by Christopher Fenimore, who has been into menswear for about the same time as I have, although he was a little younger when he started. It was fun ...
Esquire ‘Five Fits’ feature: Tonal sh...
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It's our one - the PS Linen Harrington. Being re-released next week.......
Overshirts: Two types, ways to wear, where to buy
Continuing our recent discussion of jacket replacements - chores, Tebas, safaris and the like - I've shot two of my favourite overshirts in order to talk about different types, and how they can fit into a wardrobe. The buffalo-check shirt above is ...
Overshirts: Two types, ways to wear, where to buy
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I think it's marked as a Large...
Anto: Shirtmaker to Hollywood, on and off screen
I can imagine a reader walking past Anto Shirts in Beverly Hills and not stopping in. There’s quite a range of styles, and not all of them are the kind of classic look PS normally covers. The readers that have mentioned the shirtmaker to me h...
Anto: Shirtmaker to Hollywood, on and off screen
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Thank you Jim...
Black tops and tonal combinations under
In many ways, today's outfit is a natural extension of things we’ve been talking about recently. There was, back on August 12, our discussion about wearing all black , which has some bearing here. The outfit is not all black, of course, but i...
Black tops and tonal combinations under
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Yes, that sounds good. And thank you!...
Bespoke Anto shirt from La La Land – tucked...
In the continuing vein of exploring sports shirts - casual, vintage-styled, often rayon or silk - I chatted a couple of months ago to my friend Jack Sepetjian, who runs Anto shirts in LA . I first got to know Jack when he spoke at our Shirtmakers S...
Bespoke Anto shirt from La La Land – tucked...
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High quality silk is such a ubiquitous material in places like india and Pakistan. I had some very fine silk shirts made in asia and I have to say that it changed my perspective on the excessive up-charge for such a fabr...
Coming up on the PS Shop this Autumn/Winter
At the beginning of each season recently (spring/summer, autumn/winter) we've been sending out summaries of upcoming products to PS Shop customers. These go to anyone on a waiting list for a product, and anyone that has signed up to marketing emails...
Coming up on the PS Shop this Autumn/Winter
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Great! thanks....
How Florence changed with the pandemic: Abbarchi,...
“It was really eerie, Simon, with all the tourists gone." “I know that was the same everywhere," says Simone Abbarchi (above), "but seeing the Piazza della Signoria empty made it feel like we’d gone back in time. Like the Medici co...
How Florence changed with the pandemic: Abbarchi,...
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For value, Simone must be far ahead. He's a good amount cheaper, doesn't have the same minimums, and the quality is essentially the same. The only reason for choosing T&A for me would be if you wanted a particularly Engl...
