Classic Menswear | Pinned Collar
Considered by many shirt savants to be the pinnacle of collared carriage, this is not neck trapping to hide behind. Unlike the cutaway or button-down, the pinned collar’s stylishness rises or falls in relation to the skill of its execution. Wearing it with panache demands little practice, some manual dexterity, and a bit of patience. -Dressing the Man: Mastering the Art of Permanent Fashion
Classic Menswear | The Striped Suit
Of all men’s suitings, none has ever matched the glamour and popularity of the striped suit. At one time or another in the thirties, the striped suit probably graced every pair or male shoulders, from the humble to the most famous, from unemployed to the chairman of the board. -Dressing the Man: Mastering the Art of Permanent Fashion
Classic Menswear | The White Buck Shoes
No article of footwear better typified the postwar trend toward relaxed style than American white bucks. Their slightly scuffed appearance lent them that lived-in character so characteristic of the country’s natural-shoulder fashion. Uniquely American in their understated temperament, the white buckskin oxford lace-up with its red rubber soles first served as comfortable summer accompaniment to resort clothes worn in the early 1930s. Later on, resourceful commuters discovered that these comfy suedes comported themselves equally well on steamy summer pavements under lightweight gabardine, seersucker, or tropical worsted suits. -Dressing the Man: Mastering the Art of Permanent Fashion
Classic Menswear | The Neckerchief
The Neckerchief was a solid color or patterned square of silk, cotton. or other material that was knotted or draped in ascot fashion around the neck. At one point in the mid-thirties, other than a formal-wear layout, every Hollywood head shot of male seemed to feature one version or another of these casual neckscarves. -Dressing the Man: Mastering the Art of Permanent Fashion
