Men's Style

10 Men’s Accessories That Will Never Go Out Of Style

Accessories: no decent outfit is complete without them. They are what béarnaise sauce is to steak, butter to bread, an olive to a martini. You get the idea. But sometimes it can be difficult to know just how good an investment any of these stylistic accoutrements might turn out to be (we’re looking at you, … Continue reading 10 Men’s Accessories That Will Never Go Out Of Style

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6 Alternatives To Everyday Men’s Style Classics

Variety is the spice of life, they say. And nobody wants an unseasoned casserole. Novelty, experimentation and the unfamiliar make things interesting. Even a diet of fillet steak and Lafite Rothschild gets dull without the odd hamburger and Pepsi chucked in for good measure. Similarly, your wardrobe should maintain a fine balancing act between the … Continue reading 6 Alternatives To Everyday Men’s Style Classics

Men's Fashion Guides

The Best Italian Menswear Brands

“Italians see fashion as a search for beauty,” says Matteo Persivale, one of Milan’s best-dressed men and a senior writer at Corriere della Serra, the country’s leading daily newspaper. Perhaps that’s why those in less tropical climes are still so drawn to the Italianate style — it breaks free of the workaday pragmatism of traditional … Continue reading The Best Italian Menswear Brands

Men's Fashion Basics

The Best Japanese Menswear Brands

Anyone who’s ever taken a stroll across downtown Tokyo knows first hand the peculiar energy in Japanese culture: somehow pragmatic yet dreamlike, technical yet endlessly creative, refined yet outlandish. And that madness sits at the heart of the Japanese male fashion scene, too. Garments from Japanese menswear brands are characterised by immense technical expertise and … Continue reading The Best Japanese Menswear Brands

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19 Menswear Pieces You Should Invest In For 2017

New Year’s Resolutions are a nice idea and everything, but all that self-loathing and deprivation doesn’t do much for a man’s soul. Sure, it’s fun to imagine that you’ll give up drinking or take up singing lessons, but the reality is that beer tastes good and you’re not Frank Ocean. (Unless you are, in which … Continue reading 19 Menswear Pieces You Should Invest In For 2017

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10 Iconic Men’s Shoes & Boots

Good shoes are the bedrock of a man’s wardrobe – the foundation on which everything else lies. Do you remember what happened to the man who built his house on sand? Well, neither do we, but we’re pretty sure it had something to do with him torpedoing a job interview by marrying a pair of … Continue reading 10 Iconic Men’s Shoes & Boots

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The 5 Best Places To Buy A Blazer On The High Street

Like many menswear staples, the blazer has its roots firmly in the world of sport. “The first blazers were meant to be worn in boats by rowers at Oxford and Cambridge,” writes Jack Carlson, the author of the definitive book on the garment, Rowing Blazers (published by Thames & Hudson). “They were very loose-fitting, sort of the … Continue reading The 5 Best Places To Buy A Blazer On The High Street

Men's Lifestyle

The Best Value-For-Money Luggage Brands

Your clothes are only as good as the suitcase you carry them in. If your bag is flimsy, poorly designed, unwieldy, or just plain ugly, then at best it’s letting the rest of your carefully-honed travelling persona down (we know you have one), and at worst it’s leaving your beautifully ironed white linen shirt collection … Continue reading The Best Value-For-Money Luggage Brands

Gadgets & Technology

6 Pieces Of Tech That Pay For Themselves

Cutting-edge technology doesn’t come cheap. Since 2003, I’ve had two MiniDisc players, five iPhones, a CD walkman with a Corrs album stuck inside it, a Microsoft Zune, a portable DVD player (used just once to watch She’s All That in a caravan in Wales), a Game Boy Advance that I threw out of a moving Volvo, and an iPad … Continue reading 6 Pieces Of Tech That Pay For Themselves

Men's Style

How To Winterproof Your Wardrobe

As the British winter creeps in, it’s tempting to Nytol yourself into a state of permanent hibernation and take your treasured wardrobe with you. All that biting wind, the plummeting temperatures, the freezing rainstorms: sometimes it feels like the best way to prepare for these unforgiving conditions would be to trade everything in for 16 … Continue reading How To Winterproof Your Wardrobe

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The Ultimate Winter Capsule Wardrobe

“Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by a well-chosen wardrobe” – Richard III; Act 1, Scene 1 (Don’t look it up, just trust me on this one.) The bard’s nailed it yet again, codpieces notwithstanding. Because even though the arrival of winter ushers in a period of shortening days, plummeting temperatures, … Continue reading The Ultimate Winter Capsule Wardrobe

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