Stoffa the designer Part 2: The clothes
Last week, I wrote about why Stoffa is my favourite designer brand. They're a designer to the extent that they create less-classic garments, and are design (particularly fabric) led. Yet they also have many of the characteristics that we value on Pe...
Stoffa the designer Part 2: The clothes
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No, I wouldn't say it was that similar, I'd say it was much more it's own thing. Slightly more exagerrated silhouette than the other two, and generally looser and more flowy. It's worth trying in person if you can...
Friday Polos restocked – with new colours
The Friday Polo is the longest-running product we’ve consistently done on PS, but in the past few years I’ve found I wear it in a different way to how I used to. Although it was designed to work well with tailoring, I now wear it more co...
Friday Polos restocked – with new colours
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yeah exactly, we had some unforeseen delays along the way...
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...
Rome: A sartorial city guide
The ancient forum, at the heart of Rome By Andrew Borda. Rome is often a first port of call for visitors to Italy, due to its history, beauty and climate. I’ve had the great fortune of spending a lot of time there over the past three years, an...
Rome: A sartorial city guide
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Thanks Andrew. I am conscious that Rome is very big. To give you some context, I love Italy and have been there almost every year for the last 20 years. I am now visiting it several times a year (Naples, Palermo and a bi...
P Johnson in London: Sexy, tonal, custom
P Johnson opened a new shop on Old Burlington Street in London recently, and it’s a very cool space. I’d even go as fas as to say that it brings a touch of sexiness to this often conservative part of town. Hang on a minute - I hear you s...
P Johnson in London: Sexy, tonal, custom
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I know what you mean Michael, but I think it's fair to have a little concern about the same company run by the same person, if you had a bad experience in the past and there's no obvious reason to change you mind...
The seven shirts I ordered last year
We don't talk about shirt commissions that often on Permanent Style, unlike suits or coats or shoes. But I steadily add a handful every year, on top of the PS ones we make up like the Madras or Ramie . The choices tend to be a mix of remaking old f...
The seven shirts I ordered last year
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Oh good, so lovely to hear Gez...
Playing in the fabric room: The Ascot Chang workshop
There is no agent in Hong Kong for high-end shirt fabrics, and access across the region is harder than it is Europe or the US. As a result, Ascot Chang has a lot of cloth. We went to visit them in Hong Kong recently because, while I’ve known ...
Playing in the fabric room: The Ascot Chang workshop
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Hi Nick, when in HK, did you land on someone good to make bespoke shirts at a reasonable price? Many thanks in advance....
Our favourite Ghiaia products – meeting in ...
Davide Baroncini of Ghiaia is one of the most stylish men I know, but we hadn’t met in person until this summer in Paris, where Davide was showing out of a top-floor appartment in the city. Meeting hadn’t necessarily been required becau...
Our favourite Ghiaia products – meeting in ...
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No worries, thanks for the reply....
Jake’s shirts: Review
I recently tried Jake’s shirts for the first time, after a few years of knowing Jake Wigham but assuming his softly made, straight cut wouldn’t be for me. A lot of friends wear and love them however, including Lucas, Alex and Jamie, and ...
Jake’s shirts: Review
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Pattern matching is not the same as not the same fabric for each panel, fyi. And yes, that's the story. At the end of the day, it's really just a story that shows the beginning of the shirt. One wouldn't purchase madras ...
Introducing: The hand-loomed Madras shirt
This is our final product this summer, a Madras shirt hand-woven in the traditional manner in Chennai, and then hand sewn in Naples. It’s pure cotton, and has a striking but quite sophisticated check we first used on linen shirts five years ag...
Introducing: The hand-loomed Madras shirt
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Direct from us? Yes, that is how most people do it. You can put the maker down as the recipient and just put your name also in the address as a reference - then let them know it's coming...
Why I use Wil Whiting for bespoke shirts
By Aleks Cvetkovic. As I grow a little bit older, and perhaps a little fussier (or grumpier?), I find myself returning most often to those craftspeople who are consistent in what they deliver. This is one of the reasons that I’ve been a return...
Why I use Wil Whiting for bespoke shirts
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That's a little subjective, but I'd say it would be as good as those, yes...
Spring/Summer Highlights 2025 – including b...
In this edition of our regular seasonal highlights we're doing things a little differently. First, I'm including bespoke commissions for the first time. This is in response to a few readers asking what, if anything, I’m having made, and it ma...
Spring/Summer Highlights 2025 – including b...
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I was not sure where to post this, but for those who want a more casual quarter zip than the Zagora that still fits a tailoring aesthetic, I can highly recommend the 18 East "Collan" zip collared sweatshirt. As with all ...
Introducing the Ramie shirt (and shorts restocked)
*Update: The new batch of the shorts is one inch shorter than last year, giving them an inseam of seven inches (19cm). Apologies for not mentioning that earlier - on the plus side, most people seem to like the shorter length!* Our first completely n...
Introducing the Ramie shirt (and shorts restocked)
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It's on a list of possibles, but we won't do one any time soon Ant...
The new Linen Overshirt in India
I mentioned in the cotton-crewnecks article last week that I enjoyed wearing tan accessories a lot during my recent trip to India. This might seem like a small thing, but when you get into a routine with clothing, anything that suddenly gives a twis...
The new Linen Overshirt in India
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No, a knit like that does look good. I just in general prefer a crewneck under the overshirt, so all other things equal, I wear that...
Suits and shirts: A sliding scale of formality
Linen : Linen We haven’t done one of these in a while, but a reader requested one in a comment on the ‘ How to pick shirt fabric ’ article, and it reminded me how useful people find the sliding scales. The idea is we break down tw...
Suits and shirts: A sliding scale of formality
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Thanks Simon, that's helpful....
Bryceland’s made-to-order chambray shirt: Review
Made-to-order services are useful with workwear shirts, where bespoke makers can rarely replicate the construction or the materials. We covered one such service recently, from The Anthology , and today we’re reviewing another, from Bryceland&r...
Bryceland’s made-to-order chambray shirt: Review
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Thank you...
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 ...
What does a green shirt (and a brown stripe) go w...
I really love playing with new colours in clothing. It’s like a fun little exercise in how much you know about what goes with what - how far you’ve come in your menswear journey. Yet at the same time, I also find it consistently throws ...
What does a green shirt (and a brown stripe) go w...
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I'm afraid not, sorry Zawaad. It may also be a little different in New York...
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...
The Suede Overshirt made-to-order programme
The Suede Overshirt in tobacco has recently been restocked on PS, having sold out quickly back in the spring. But we’re also going to try a made-to-order programme, as the makers Rifugio are happy to make in small numbers. The idea is that re...
The Suede Overshirt made-to-order programme
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Only in October I'm afraid - we do two a year...
How my shirt fit has changed in the past 15 years
I know, a graph! Given the nerdery that’s often included on these pages, I’m surprised it’s taken so long for us to lead with a graph. (Mobile users: try opening the image in a new tab.) Let me tell you what it shows. This plots my...
How my shirt fit has changed in the past 15 years
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Sorry Liam, yes I think I misspoke there, an M fits me well...
The versatility (or not) of navy hopsack – ...
I wore this new hopsack jacket from Paolo Martorano quite a bit this summer, which surprised me. Although I’ve had navy jackets in the past, since I stopped working in an office I tend to wear more earthy colours, such as browns, taupes or tha...
The versatility (or not) of navy hopsack – ...
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I'm not sure I know of one I'm afraid, apart from wearing a shirt or a bandana or something else on the neck...
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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I think you'll have to ask them I'm afraid Will, sorry...
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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I wear lots Joners, and you'll see them around the website in various articles - perhaps search for 'linen overshirt' and you'll see quite a few combinations...
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...
