No blog has probably done a better job of documenting the Ivy & Trad virtues of well-worn clothing thanIvy Stylewith articles such as “A Frayed So: In Praise of Beater Clothes.” It was there where I saw my first OCBD collar riddled (pictured above) with what looked to me like sympto...
Where am I at now? I currently have six sport coats in the rotation. I have made a notation for what category they fall into and added a picture below. I have a year round and summer blazer. I can check them off the list. Although the summer blazer is fading fast. My grey herringb...
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For the past decade, a rear collar button and a hanger loop have become standard equipment on shirts styled in the traditional pattern. They have become accepted, taken for granted, and ignored. But now comes along one of the major traditional shirt houses in the nation and says buttons and...
Spoiler alert: It’s not hard. Like all trads I tend to wear an OCBD under anything and everything. Here it works well helping to take the sweatshirt up a notch above the yard work look (even thought this is how trads look doing yard work). Layering with a polo shirt will have a...
Not only did I post about J.Crew’s chore blazer (Blazer Chores), but I also picked up one for myself. The results are in, and I like it! Why did I like about it? At the most basic level It gave me the feeling that I was wearing a sport coat, but it dressed it down in ...
If you are still on the fence about Michael Spencer’s OCBDs look no further. I have you covered. Here is a link to a review from Oxford Cloth Button Down reader Steve that he did for the blog a while back (Michael Spencer OCBD Review). He had nothing but good things to say....
It’s 42 degrees outside as I type this. On Monday it was 80 degrees and I was wearing shorts. Today I am contemplating donning a toboggan. Fall can be like that. The images below show how I managed to stay warm or cool as the temps fluctuated. Some things like the red shirtjac ...
in the blogosphere. Not only can he school you on the evolution of the Brooks Brothers OCBD, but he can also delve into the finer the points of what makes for a good Grateful Dead set. There is one hitch to his blog. He frequently abandons it only to return months (or years) later...