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Straw Boaters
The other evening whilst out on the town with Will Moller (Groton ’02, Kenyon ’06), I was pleased to learn that Groton still graduates its male student in straw boaters. I think straw boaters are about...
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The almighty loden coat
Judging by the evidence (yours truly, left, in Connecticut late last fall*), I quite agree with the fellow who wrote in The Field this month: « Given the dodginess of many London topcoat wearers and...
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Amidst pickelhaubes resplendent
The Chancellor of Germany is seen here worriedly admiring the pickelhaubed cavalry on her state visit to Colombia. Such elements of tradition, widespread in South America, are unofficially but totally...
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Monocled Monarch is the King of Fashion
Put Taft on a raft and forget Mr. Vorster: In terms of well-dressed heads of state, the King of Tonga is one of the last of his breed It’s an easily observable fact that, in terms of public attire, the...
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Austin Reed
The London mens’ clothier Austin Reed was founded in 1900 and set up shop in Regent Street in 1926 as the first men’s department store. The clothes were aimed at the upper middle class male, and the...
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Heraldic Discrepancies in Fashion
Ralph Lauren’s Modern Field Collection THERE IS ATTENTION to detail and then there is pedantry, and I hope this falls into the former rather than the latter. Among the numerous e-mails which find their...
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