It’s summer. It’s hot, and sometimes it’s just hard to put on clothes, much less a suit. This is the reason social functions have a season. From September to May we don the dress up and head out on the town, when the weather permits us to layer on the articles of a well-dressed man. [...]
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posted on July 5, 2010
Brooks Brothers, the iconic American brand, launches a bow tie collection just in time for the summer season with socialprimer.com’s founder, K. Cooper Ray. Exclusively designed and inspired by Brooks Brothers’ heritage of mixing vivid patterns and colors, the Social Primer for Brooks Brothers Bow Tie Collection is an innovative and playful take on the [...]
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posted on May 10, 2010
The title of the article in The New York Times is “Men’s Suits for Under a $1000″. At first glance that may seem like a large sum of money, but the admirable thesis of this story is to highlight good quality at a reasonable price. Although I am a firm believer that a man needs [...]
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posted on April 18, 2010
If you thought the 2010 Academy Awards red carpet scene looked like the March of the Penguins you would not be too far off the mark. To push the point further, one could say the men looked like clones of one another with no individual style. Again, your aim would be precise. And this is [...]
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posted on March 8, 2010
And the Oscar Goes to…. Oh, who knows? This is really just an excuse to beg you to watch Food, Inc. The most important film of the year, decade, maybe ever. I will be back on Monday with SP’s highly-anticipated and most-viewed post of the year (Best Dressed Men at the Oscars!! So important!) but [...]
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posted on March 5, 2010
A note to the uninitiated: New fashion collections are presented to the press six months before the clothes hit stores. The recent men’s shows in New York are a preview of what will be on shelves in the Fall of 2010. Also, this post is loaded with links. Click on the bold underlined words and [...]
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posted on March 1, 2010
The ideal of the well-dressed man is a simple one but apparently difficult to obtain. Men should be impeccably turned out and never ostentatious. The well-dressed man about town should be unremarkable yet elegant and well-groomed. His clothes should be age-appropriate, fit well and be made of appropriate fabric and color. There are few occasions [...]
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posted on January 18, 2010
….. Men have their imagery and that’s it. And don’t tamper with it. And don’t call it fashion. It is style. (Bill Cunningham) One of my heroes, The New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham, gives an overview of men’s style before it disappears under winter coats: Young men are tweaking classic looks with unexpected color. [...]
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posted on December 15, 2009
Image courtesy of The Sartorialist The critics tell me the posts on here have a tendency to wax on too long. Nobody wants to read a blow-hard wordy essay on the emailer machine, they tell me. OK, so this is a long, extra blow-hard lengthy one, but this is an important issue concerning every man [...]
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posted on November 18, 2009
SP knows the thought of wearing a bow tie probably makes most of you cringe. This item is often relegated to history or the realm of the dandy and in some parts of the business world or certain geographic areas, is considered utterly uncool by the unitiated. SP will not begin to defend the bow [...]
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posted on November 10, 2009
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