My Linen Trousers Came Out Of The Wash A Different Size Than I Remembered

I spent a solid fifteen years telling anyone who’d listen that linen doesn’t shrink, not really, that the whole thing was overblown fabric folklore passed down from people who’d washed…

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Chinos To A Wedding Turned Into A Full Debate In My Group Chat

My coworker Danny sent a photo of himself in olive chinos and a blazer at 11pm on a Tuesday with the message “wedding appropriate or am I an idiot” and…

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Suit Trousers Feeling Snug After Lunch Made Me Question The Fabric

I have genuinely spent longer thinking about my waistband than most people spend deciding whether to buy a house. I know this because I once stood in a fitting room…

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Whether Socks Should Match Your Shoes Or Your Trousers Split My Flatmates Down The Middle

I had a client last month, a guy in his sixties getting fitted for a wedding, tell me his father always matched socks to trousers because “matching them to your…

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Brown Shoes With Grey Trousers Got Questioned By A Colleague At Lunch

“That’s a bold choice for a Tuesday,” she said, looking at my feet like I’d shown up in cleats. I was wearing dark brown derbies with charcoal grey trousers, a…

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I Fell for the Instagram Pants Everyone’s Obsessing Over (And I’m Not Even Mad About It)

Let’s be real. When it comes to clothing nothing that promises to be “life-changing” actually is. Remember the jeans that were going to give you washboard abs so everyone would…

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I Wore the “No Pants” Trend for an Entire Day and Now I Understand Why Everyone Thinks Fashion People Are Insane

OK, fine. I know the moment I officially became a non-compos mentis member of society. It happened sometime between 9 AM and noon on a Tuesday morning as I looked…

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Our Favorite Gold Joggers Right Now

My brother Sam and I got into it about gold joggers back in February, the kind of argument that only happens when neither person has actually tested the thing yet,…

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