The ACL favorite and American made clothing brand Southwick recently launched a redesigned website. The new site, along with the updated designs for fall, have me excited about the Lawrence, Mass. based clothing company. I find Southwick to be the perfect combination of my clothing preferences. Natural shoulder, traditional styling, classic fabrications and the fact [...]
Last week I covered the much hyped and wildly popular Brooklyn Flea. I now feel it incumbent upon me to dedicate some space to my old-standby flea market the Elephant Trunk. If you aren’t familiar with The Trunk, it is a classic New England flea with all sorts of old and random things stretched out [...]
Those are good words, Rocco Ciccarelli Custom Tailoring. What is better than just those words, is the place, the man and what he makes. This past week my friend Antonio told me he was going to Rocco’s for a fitting and asked if I wanted to tag along. He knew I was dying to check [...]
This weekend a friend and I went to the first Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. We didn’t make it over until around 11am (my fault; hangover) but we still arrived to lots of ironic preppy hipsters and some good flea market action. It is nice that they do start things off later than the [...]
Number five of a five part series.
After working our way through Pea Coats and CPO shirts, the next logical step is the classic and recently popular Chambray shirt. The great part about these shirts are their ability to be worn as a casual shirt or dressed up with a sport coat and tie.
Below: Chambray [...]
I found a cool piece of letterhead (pictured below) from a company called “Robot Salesmen LTD” on the Coudal + Partners website the other day. It reminded me of a shopping excursion I took a few weeks ago to Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. I remembered seeing these awesome robots for sale at City Foundry. [...]
Number four of a five part series.
Between Free & Easy and the Rusty Knot, nautical seems to have taken over my world. As I browsed The Navy-ism, I came to the realization that the entire issue seems to have been inspired by the 1966 Steve McQueen movie The Sand Pebbles. I think it is fairly [...]
Yesterday, Mike Albo from The New York Times reviewed the denim destination Jean Shop for the Thursday Styles. To get the name out there, Jean Shop relies mostly on word of mouth referrals and reputation as one of the most authentic companies making and selling denim. The brand is fairly press shy and it doesn’t [...]
I have become obsessed with the “100-Year-Old Photo Blog” called Shorpy. They have a truly remarkable collection of beautiful Americana on film. Below are some of my favorites. If you click on the photo, you can enlarge to hi-res to get a closer look. You can also order a variety of prints from the archive [...]
Vice Broadcasting System continues to shock and awe with their programming. In the new episode of “Americana” they head to Pahrump, Nevada (which in addition to being very gun friendly, is also home to more than a few brothels) to do some tactical firearms training. What a great bachelor party idea, head to Vegas then [...]
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