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musings on men's formal wear from the creator of The Black Tie Guide
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Up Close: The Full-Dress Shirt
Just as with their full-dress waistcoat, Brooks Brothers’ full-dress shirt is a wondrous lesson in old school elegance. First and foremost, it is a collar-less tunic that allows for a tall and rigid detachable collar that frames a man’s face with stately splendour. It also lets the wearer choose from a variety of wing shapes […]
Of Bows And Wings
March 30, 2012
It seems that just about every movie I see these days has at least one scene featuring formal wear. The latest example is Hugo, Martin Scorsese’s beautifully shot (if ambiguously titled) homage to French film pioneer Georges Méliès. (Although it’s available on video it is still in theatres and if you don’t see it in […]
Formal Motifs in The Artist
March 4, 2012
(Spoiler Alert!) I finally got around to seeing The Artist this weekend and enjoyed it thoroughly both as a classic film buff and as modern movie-goer who’s grown weary of roller-coaster camera moves, rapid-fire edits, and computer-generated artificiality. As anyone who’s seen it knows, formal wear is very prevalent in the film as befitting a […]
A Tale of Two Collars: Wing vs. Turndown
November 14, 2011
Like most North American Gen X’ers I grew up thinking that the wing collar shirt was as essential with a tuxedo as a clip-on bow tie. So I was quite surprised to notice on The West Wing one evening that most of the presidential aides attending a black-tie event were sporting turndown collars. Moreover, despite […]
May 1, 2012
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