I’m glad we’ve gotten over the last cycle of ‘preppy’, in that bright colors paired with seersucker and neon argyle socks are a thing of the past.  We are in a traditional cycle now, with more of a focus on quality and fit.  I hope this cycle lasts for a…

I have been a huge fan of Oak Street Bootmakers since I bought my first pair of beef roll loafers back in 2013.  I still have them.  They’ve been professionally restored once, and quite frankly, they look incredible.  I don’t see any reason that my boys won’t be fighting over…

One of my new COVID hobbies is to catalog and taking stock of my stuff.  It’s like an episode of Hoarders at a department store.  Weird.  It’s not just clothes and shoes, but really everything.  Going through junk drawers is like a reckoning.  This could be a post all it’s…

I can’t decide what I hated more: the bankruptcy announcement from Brooks Brothers, or their transition to a non-iron, characterless bloated catalog over the last ten years. The Brooks Brothers I remember was a bit romantic. The only access I had was the shop at Lenox Square Mall, which I…