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…
People get remarkably worked up about brown shoes and grey suits, considering the actual stakes involved, which are approximately zero. Nobody has ever lost a job, a marriage, or a…
I bought my first pair of brown loafers eleven years ago because a guy at the shoe counter told me they’d go with anything, and I believed him the way…
“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…
I blame Gigi Hadid. Or maybe Hailey Bieber. Or maybe Kendall Jenner? Truthfully, I don’t know who started the trend first. But whoever it was, thank you very much. Because…
Let me take you back to last Tuesday. Imagine me – aged approximately 16 (in years I haven’t lived yet), watching teens on TikTok shove every piece of clothing they…
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…
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…
I was crammed into the backseat of my boss’s Uber on our way to a client presentation, doing my best to keep my knees from bumping the ceiling while also…
Cream chunky loafers were not something I ever thought I needed until I spotted a pair in that exact shade at a vintage shop in York last April. The woman…