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American Space Cowboys

Fri, 03 May 2024 18:59:53 +0000

It’s often said that America has not been this divided since the Civil War, but even these tumultuous times pale in comparison to the social unrest of the 1960s, when post-war America’s cleavages along race, gender, and sexuality threatened to rip the nation apart. Within ten short years, the United States saw the unfolding of [...]

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Excited to Wear This Spring

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 20:26:26 +0000

According to superstition, good luck comes to those who wear at least one new article of clothing on Easter Sunday, the official start of spring (style-wise). For years, I wrote spring style guides for various publications, including Put This On, but as menswear has become balkanized into tiny little communities, I’ve found it better to [...]

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A Dozen Great Black Friday Sales

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 14:32:02 +0000

You used to have to muscle your way into stores and stand in long lines to take advantage of Black Friday promotions. Nowadays, everything is online, so you can shop from the comfort of your own home. The difficulty, of course, is that you’re then swamped with possibilities, making it impossible to know what to [...]

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Excited To Wear This Fall

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 20:10:43 +0000

For the past few years, at the start of every season, I’ve made it a tradition to publish a post about things I’m excited to wear. These posts are a deliberate shift away from the conventional notion of “wardrobe essentials,” a concept that has, in many ways, lost its relevance as people lead different lifestyles. [...]

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The Best of This Season’s Sales

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 01:21:44 +0000

I envy people who aren’t interested in clothes. Just the sight of a chunky cream sweater or camp collar shirt is enough to send me into a daydreaming tailspin, where I waste hours of my day poring over online images and reading about the product’s construction. Then I imagine the new and exciting life I [...]

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Excited to Wear This Spring

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 01:05:57 +0000

For the last few years, I’ve been doing these posts about things I’m excited to wear for the season. They’re a way for me to talk about things I’m excited about without getting into the fraught concept of “wardrobe essentials” (which feels increasingly less relevant nowadays when people have such different needs and lifestyles). Still, [...]

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Living Legend: An Interview with Yukio Akamine

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 23:24:15 +0000

In the mid-2000s, I used to take the bus to Kinokuniya, an Asian bookstore in San Francisco that sold Japanese magazines like Men’s Precious, Men’s Ex, and, of course, the famous Free & Easy. Non-English publications, then as now, covered classic menswear better than their English counterparts. While American magazines like GQ and Esquire featured [...]

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Sole Survivors: How the Internet is Saving Bespoke Shoemaking (Pt 2)

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 19:51:15 +0000

I was having dinner with Nicholas Templeman a few years ago at Besharam, a small Indian restaurant located on the outskirts of San Francisco. Over spicy vegetarian curries and delicate semolina puffs, we discussed how the British shoemaking trade has changed over the years. I told him I’d recently spoken with Daniel Wegan and Emiko Matsuda, two bespoke shoemakers who, like [...]

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Sole Survivors: How the Internet Is Saving Bespoke Shoemaking (Pt 1)

Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:01:50 +0000

When it comes to menswear history, it can be challenging to separate fact from fiction. The two are often intertwined in vanity books and marketing pamphlets, and these stories persist because they help companies sell clothes. The best accounts are rooted in primary sources, such as newspaper articles, archival records, or oral histories from reliable [...]

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More Black Friday Sales

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 22:16:16 +0000

I rounded up every Black Friday sale for Put This On and will update the list through Cyber Monday. But as I do every year, I’m also highlighting some special sales from that list here. Perhaps most notable is the blowout over at LuxeSwap. I didn’t include it in this list below because it’s not [...]

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