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musings on men's formal wear from the creator of The Black Tie Guide
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Of Fly Fronts and French Cuffs
I bought my first fly-front shirt recently and the process was definitely not as simple as I had thought it would be. Here’s what I learned . . . Lesson Number One: Understated Shouldn’t Mean Plain. The least expensive fly-front I found in my search at Harry Rosen was a basic BOSS model without a bib. I […]
Simply Elegant: The Fly-Front Shirt
January 9, 2012
Of all the attempts to improve black tie since its heyday in the 1930s there is only one innovation I would endorse unconditionally: the fly-front shirt. Post-thirties creations first suffered from the addition of excessive flair to the original garments (coloured jackets and ruffled shirts of the ’60s and ’70s) then departed too radically from […]
Rapper Pitbull Promotes Classic Black Tie
January 1, 2012
Like many other North Americans I watched parts of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Eve special during last night’s festivities. The highlight for me was seeing Pitbull (the rapper behind the hit “Give Me Everything”) perform not just in a tuxedo but in classic black tie. Friends assumed I would be perturbed by his untied bow […]
May 3, 2013
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