Men clothing blog

So the other day we were in Bergdorf Goodman and found ourselves in the Thom Browne department. After seeing his recent shows the past few seasons we wanted to see how Browne translates his aesthetic for the retail level, where artistic expression must translate into monetary value. Much has been said and […]

Barack Obama just announced that he is no longer going to wear an American flag lapel pin, the accessory that became popular among politicians after September 11, since it has become “a substitute for…true patriotism.”  Though that claim is surely too strong, Izzy has long suspected that some politicians wear the flag pin like it’s […]

Behold this page from the 1975 J.C. Penny catalog, which deserves to be seen fully blown up to get the full effect.  While it’s easy to knock disco-pimp fashion, whether it’s the butch decolletage or the high-waisted polyester trousers with crotches cut too close to home, at least the clogs benefitted the shorter manimal (like […]

Update III [CT]: I just had to post this lil’ fashion treat. This is Ginny’s “Urban Cowboy” set, por femme (there’s also a version of this outfit available for the guys), and I decided why not be a little bit country and a whole lotta rock ‘n’ roll — so I added a cowboy hat […]

So as to celebrate July 4th in full patriotic regalia, Izzy yesterday wore a white linen shirt, blue linen trousers, and these red-and-white striped socks from J. Press. He won’t go into why he even owns the eye-popping pair—all he’ll say is that it’s a bad idea to shop on eBay while intoxicated.
He is, […]

In How to Lose Friends and Alienate People—the self-loathing memoir about a coke-snorting, alcoholic womanizer who gets a job at Vanity Fair magazine—we learn that one of the subtle insults at Conde Nast is to call someone’s attire “too match-y.”  But if ever there was a occasion of too much matchiness, it is this shirt and tie combination on […]