Introducing: The Suede Overshirt
May 17th 2024A 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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No worries. I'd say I wear it open most of the time, yes. Occasionally I button it for warmth, but that's rare...
Buck Mason, Novesta, New & Lingwood: Spring ‘...
April 24th 2024Our 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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Old Armoury ones, no longer available I'm afraid...
A Guide To Chambray Shirts – Part Two: Mode...
April 21st 2024By 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 ...
A Guide To Chambray Shirts – Part One: Repr...
April 10th 2024By 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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Those shirts were actually good, yes. Consistently better made at least. The only issue is sometimes the style and fit, but the 90s is back now, so the fits feel very current...
Wythe: Tasteful and accessible Americana
November 27th 2023Peter 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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The Real McCoys and Buzz Rickson's, mainly -- the latter being more accurate, generally, than the former....
The importance of visiting your makers (repeatedly)
November 17th 2023Readers 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
October 23rd 2023An 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...
Reader profile: Ian
August 14th 2023Ian 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...
Speciale: Fine Florentine tailoring and haberdashery
August 9th 2023Speciale 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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I can try to, yes, although to be honest I'm not sure when. Speciale is very nice for bespoke but at the same time I wouldn't say the making is very different from most other Florentine tailoring we've covered, as far as...
How much do you actually know? An interview with ...
August 4th 2023By 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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Marketing. Brooks Brothers did have a wider appeal during the first 150 years, but by the late 20th century it faded further into obscurity as more of an establishment brand rather than an aspirational brand. Also Brooks...
Schostal: Socks, shirts and pyjamas in Rome
July 10th 2023In 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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I found them generous actually Michael...
Tokyo: A sartorial shopping guide – 2023 Up...
June 7th 2023Tokyo 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...
Spring/Summer Top 10 ’23: Shirts, shorts an...
April 28th 2023It 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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I cannot comment on the substance of their environmental activism, if that is primarily marketing, but as far as my information goes, at least the working conditions in the supply chains of Patagonia are no better than a...
New pink and green-stripe oxford shirts
March 27th 2023Two 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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It depends on the oxford to an extent, as there is a lot of variety in how fine the material is, some really feel like dress shirts. For a traditional, coarser oxford, I'd personally go with a placket but it wouldn't loo...
The Simone Abbarchi workshop, in a little street,...
February 10th 2023I 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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Yes...
Esquire ‘Five Fits’ feature: Tonal sh...
January 4th 2023Esquire 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
December 21st 2022Continuing 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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Yes Aaron, I covered a great cashmere overshirt here. Did you see that? I'm not sure on the best fabric weight to be honest, but I'd probably go a touch lighter than a normal jacket...
Anto: Shirtmaker to Hollywood, on and off screen
December 12th 2022I 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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I've been making shirts from Anto for a decade and a half and I've tried a decent number of London/European bespoke shirtmakers along with a lot of M2M and RTW and Anto shirts are handsdown the winner for me. I've worked...
Black tops and tonal combinations under
September 5th 2022In 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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I those could work nicely too - perhaps best to play with these a little yourself and get your own sense of it, it will be more profitable that way and it's hard to give advice on multiple changing parts remotely...
Bespoke Anto shirt from La La Land – tucked...
September 2nd 2022In 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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Yes I'd agree...
Coming up on the PS Shop this Autumn/Winter
August 31st 2022At 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,...
August 8th 2022“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...
Rayon shirts, and tucking in or out
August 1st 2022I ’ve been interested in rayon shirts recently, perhaps as I’ve been dressing a bit more casually and would like an alternative to linen. However, I’ve found it hard to find the perfect model. Usually the collar is the issue - this...
Rayon shirts, and tucking in or out
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I don't know how much bigger I'm afraid, but a little I think...
Introducing: The striped short-sleeve shirt
July 20th 2022“A smarter short-sleeved shirt is not something I ever considered before, but I do actually like it.” I have to say I enjoyed the process of launching this shirt last year - i t’s fun to make something that challenges people, pushi...
Introducing: The striped short-sleeve shirt
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Thank you Simon. I will do that....
Aimé Leon Dore launches in the UK – worth a visit?
July 13th 2022There has been a fair amount of excitement in London at the opening of the new Aimé Leon Dore shop in Soho – their first outside the US. I can understand why. New menswear stores are rare at the moment, the dominant narrative being of s...
Aimé Leon Dore launches in the UK – worth a visit?
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Blimey. Maybe there's a big rush at certain times, if I've had to wait it's usually only for five minutes or so. Shame if it gets stupidly long like that...
