This picture comes from Camo’s upcoming fall/winter lookbook, themed around the style of the casino. Note the housecoat blazer, the impeccable tie dimple and the dangerously short stack.
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The Quebecois shop Rooney dipped into a second round of sale-ing this week, with 40% to 60% off a flock of shawl cardigans, a sharp quilted jacket and an unstructured blazer in undyed linen. And since it’s all in Canadian dollars, the dollar signs barely even count. Have at it, folks.
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This snap comes from the latest lookbook from Beams+, showing what a chambray tie, a cotton blazer and a button-down shirt can do. This, gentlemen, is how Tokyo does it.
Those L.B.M. 1911 blazers we showed you last month have finally gotten the lookbook treatment, and the resulting pics are pretty spectacular. They’re also… how to put this… ridiculously Italian.
It makes sense. After all, L.B.M. is a 100-year Milan brand, and not absolutely everything is going to work across the Atlantic. But in the interest of keeping the Italophiles honest, we’ve put together a guide to separate the flashes of menswear brilliance from the flashes of chest hair. Gentlemen, things are about to get real…
Another day, another post-holiday sale. This one comes from Billy Reid, who’s knocked 50% off a set of fall/winter gear for an impressive collection of $400 blazers and $50 ties. (The Quail Jacket should be especially useful once March rolls around.) Good browsing, gentlemen.
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The checked blazer is looking more and more essential each week. (As of last night’s football game, even Bob Costas was getting in on it.) And most importantly, it’s not just an Italian style anymore.
This sport coat comes from Gant by Michael Bastian, and in keeping with the rest of the line, it’s firmly planted in midcentury America. That means more Pendleton than Pitti Uomo—a homey spin on an otherwise jetsetting style. The matching scarf can’t be far behind.
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We do not necessarily endorse the project of outfitting yourself in head-to-toe blackwatch plaid.
However, if you decide to take it on and ascend to your rightful place in the fall/winter hall of fame, you’ll find a suitable shirt, scarf, blazer, smoking jacket, peacoat, boxer shorts, umbrella and kilt here.
And by all means, send us a picture.
via Why You MadOne of the perks of the Italian Invasion has been a serious uptick in adventurous blazers. Like raw denim before it, an odd jacket can be a great way to dress up without looking like you’re trying to impress the boss—which should make it one of the more versatile items in your closet. But as with any patterned piece, it can be dangerous territory if you don’t know your way around.
So to help you get the most out of your next odd jacket, we’ve put together a quick roadmap of what’s great and what’s risky. It’s simpler than you think…
Between this month’s GQ and a certain Internet-breaking lookbook, the turtleneck-under-a-blazer is having a moment. You’ll want to approach this one with caution, but if you can pull it off you’ll be able to get a lot more wear out of any blazers in your closet—and you’ll be spending the next few months with a much warmer neck than the rest of us.
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The perfect fall blazer is a beautiful thing. Pick up the right one, and it’ll be the most versatile item in your closet through to December—equally at home with denim and wool, wingtips and sneakers. As for finding the right one, we’d opt for an outfit that’s either very old or very good at faking it…
For instance, Southwick—a New England shop that’s been stitching together made-to-measure jackets since the 20s.
And since Jack Spade just drafted them for a mini-collection devoted entirely to blusterproof suiting, you won’t have to bother with the measuring tape. The full collection includes camelhair topcoats and hopsack blazers, but the prize is this wool herringbone jacket—a prime example of one of the best fall pieces out there.
Now all you need is a scarf and a pile of leaves to walk through.
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As we head into fall, here’s an alternative to your standard-issue tweed jacket.
It comes from Monitaly, with the same cut as their Italophile blazers and one important difference: the fabric is duck canvas. That’s the same stuff you find on a Carhartt—basically the toughest canvas known to menswear. So despite the dandyish cut and the chambray-and-silk lining, this jacket can handle just about anything headed your way, including any September gusts.
Or any semi-formal construction sites.
Yoox kicked off their semi-annual sale this week, and it’s definitely worth a look. But in case you aren’t in the mood to sift through a thousand-plus specimens of avant-Italian menswear, we’ve put together a little guide on the names to look for. You may want to bookmark this one…
via LikeCoolSending Flowers: A photo guide to loud prints, courtesy of the Street Etiquette chaps. [Street Etiquette]
Checked: Woody Hines just got a Mantova blazer. Handsome stuff. [Men of Habit]
The Underneath: The world’s best summer undershirt, according to Valet. [Valet]
Game of Trads: Pattern matching, the Permanent Style way. We’d put the emphasis on texture and harmony, for what it’s worth. [Permanent Style]
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After carrying the flag for the Urban Lumberjack look (and, before that, the Urban Equestrian look), Freeman’s Sporting Club has learned a few new tricks.
To start with, they’re locavores. Their newly launched e-commerce site marks items by how close to the NYC shop they were stitched together. Usually, the answer is the garment district of Manhattan…but it’s nice to know for sure.
They’re also making a strong case for the one-button blazer with this irish linen number. It’s a sharp pattern, just rustic enough to keep you from being confused for a banker—but most of all, it’s as far from workwear as you can get.
So far we’re calling it Urban Gentleman, but we’re open to suggestions.
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You may be familiar with the preppy staple known as go-to-hell pants, but the critter-filled graphics typically stay below the waist.
This Band of Outsiders blazer moves the pattern above the waist, for one of the best hyper-preppy items we’ve seen all year. We’re not sure we want to rush out and buy the thing exactly, but we have to admit it would look pretty fantastic on anyone swaggering into a Newport garden party. And since the fabric itself is linen burlap, they’ll be able to keep fairly cool in the process.
But for god’s sake, stick to one critter at a time.
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It doesn’t have to be complicated.
Take this snap of Jesse Williams at a Dewar’s event on Thursday. There aren’t any high-fashion moves here, just a blue blazer, gray pants and a sliver of a pocket square—as classic an outfit as you’re likely to find. Even the fit is down-the-middle, with just enough of a break in his pants to keep his socks safely disguised.
But mostly, we’d like to give him a hat tip to the glasses. Most actors wouldn’t be caught within miles of non-essential eyewear on a red carpet, but Williams didn’t even blink.
In fact, moments after the picture was taken, he removed them dramatically.
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The top buttons of jackets have been creeping upwards for a couple years now, but our friends at UrbanDaddy just put us on to an extreme example. This Monitaly Peter Jacket buttons somewhere around the collarbone, and the bottom split is high enough to let your belly button (or at least your belt buckle) show through.
The resulting look is eccentric to say the least—more like evening tails than a suit jacket—but close enough to standard-issue formalwear that it might pass from afar. The opera will never know what hit it.
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The double-breasted blazer is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, so we’ve drawn up a little map for your venture into double-wide territory. Of course, the first rule is the same as always: wear it with bombast. Here are the others.
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In keeping with our day of southern gentility, here’s a newly unearthed snap from the legendary William Eggleston, capturing one of his childhood friends in the throes of childcare in 1970s Memphis. As it turns out, the brass-button blazer really is appropriate everywhere.
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The rise of speckle continues…
This Wings + Horns jacket should fill the same spot in your wardrobe as a tweed blazer, but it swaps out the plaid threading for one of the more current fabric patterns out there. And it doesn’t hurt that a spotty mĂ©lange of gray and white should match the view from your window on most winter mornings.
Of course, you’ll lose a bit of the professor-on-leave vibe that comes with the tweed…but it’s a small price to pay.
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While the tweed blazer is still the gold standard of fall outerwear (ahem), there are plenty of twists you can wring on it. For one, you may want to button it up a little higher.
This Life After Denim jacket is in step with the current high-chested style, but it also affords the wearer a little extra chest coverage—in case you feel like going scarfless today. It’s a trendy modification, to be sure—and anyone with a little extra belly may want to give it a pass—but there’s some solid utility behind it.
And more importantly, it’ll match the leaves.
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Dressing for light spring rain can be a bit dicey. Full on raingear seems unseasonal—particularly if you’re expecting some intermittent sun—but nobody looks good soaked.
Fortunately the budding dandy behind Young Man/Old Man is around to show us all how it’s done. This ensemble pairs the quintessential raingear piece—in the form of a vintage, fingertip-length trench coat—with one of the most seasonal spring items, the light blazer. We give him extra points for pulling off the risky khaki-on-khaki gambit, and (as you can see here) not being afraid to leave his knit tie a few inches short of the beltline.
If we’re counting correctly, that’s three pitch-perfect balancing acts in one outfit. Not too shabby, sir.
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The lightly structured blazer has been a favorite item of ours for quite a while now, but we’re always glad to see a new one hit the market.
This item, dubbed the Shanahan Blazer, comes from Company of We, a “democratic luxury” brand hitting the wholesale market in January, but available through eCommerce in the meantime. And, in the spirit of Movember, if you order before Dec 1, they’ll donate 20% of your order to charity—provided you put in the right coupon code. Sounds democratic to us…
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We managed to snag a copy of Norsea’s latest lookbook at the (capsule) show, and the results are nothing short of exciting. For one, the khaki blazer is one northern staple we’re happy to adopt.
The rest of the line has highlights like Liberty-style mock turtlenecks and a few new takes on the denim jacket—aside from the Stamford denim blazer we saw at the show. The cleverest trick may be the styling on the Dunes jacket: The three-button blazer is worn with the bottom two buttons fastened. We wouldn’t advise trying it without a jacket that’s tailored for the purpose, but it’s one of the more daring moves we’ve seen in a lookbook recently.
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The 70s were a pretty fantastic time for American film, but the style legacy has been a little more mixed.
This shot from the Black Sunday premiere circa 1977 should remind you why. (Cheers to WWD for digging it up.) Between the suede bomber, gloriously billowing pant legs, and omnipresent Italian boots, the disco era is certainly in full swing. That’s Sydney Pollack in the middle, with his shirt unbuttoned to the sternum, according to the custom of the time.
Say what you will, but they definitely knew how to pull off a blazer.
