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Green is the third colour
Navy and grey are the kings of colour. They should be your first choice for almost every item of clothing – suit, jacket, trousers, overcoat, knitwear, even ties. Navy in particular for jackets and...
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Get Permanent Style by email
Just a quick reminder that you can receive Permanent Style as a feed, by RSS, email or a host of other readers. It’s convenient, instant, and several thousand people already do. Simply click on the...
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RRL: Vintage outerwear and modern fit
If I have an addiction outside of tailoring, it is not shoes or ties but outerwear. Leather jackets, suede blousons, trench coats: I love the ability of such big pieces to radically change a look and...
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Chittleborough & Morgan suit – at A&S
For those that were interested in the Chittleborough & Morgan suit I wrote about last week, here are some more images. The photography was done by new online luxury magazine Essence, for whom I...
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A great suit cleaning option: Press2Dress
In the search for decent sponge-and-press services, I recently tried Press2Dress, a dry cleaner based in south London and run by Michael Norman. Michael is developing an online service that specialises...
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Casual and formal wear are still closer than you think
I adore the A/W photo shoot for Drake’s, shown here. Such vivid colour combinations. It reminds me of a post I wrote almost four years ago now about my favourite early photos on The Sartorialist,...
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D’Avino shirts, Naples
One of the new makers I met in Naples last month was D’Avino, a small shirtmaker run by Fiorenzo Auricchio (above). Fiorenzo trained as a boy under his father, who worked for Gino Borelli – so a...
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Drake’s Christmas sale now on
Those of you with long memories will have fond recollections of the annual scrum that was the Drake’s Christmas sale at the old factory. After a brief stay at the Music Rooms, the sale is now being...
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Cifonelli navy suit
Lorenzo Cifonelli made me this beautiful suit at the beginning of the year, and I’ve meaning to write about it ever since. He has cut two jackets for me in the past, a pale-grey cashmere DB and a...
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How to buy a suit
A colleague recently asked me for advice on buying a suit – probably navy, certainly single-breasted, possibly three-button. It’s the kind of everyday question that I get asked a lot, and probably...
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Luxury hiking boots in the FT
My latest article in the Financial Times, on luxury hiking boots, was published this weekend. If you’re interested, the post can be found here.
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Postcard from Paris
In Paris this week, seeing all the Cs – Cifonelli, Camps de Luca, Corthay, Charvet, plus a few new faces. Look out for an exclusive peep behind the doors of the Arnys tailoring atelier too, now of...
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Cifonelli update: jersey, overcoats and buttons
Dinner with Lorenzo Cifonelli on Monday was a highlight of this week’s trip to Paris. So conscientious, so grounded yet creative: Lorenzo in many ways has the perfect character for a tailor. And he has...
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Tortoiseshell and kidskin
As someone who has spent too much of the past year redeveloping a website, I take my hat off to Will, who has accomplished a much more fundamental redesign over at A Suitable Wardrobe – melding the...
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Cleverley sample sale on Wednesday
Cleverley is having a last-minute sale on Wednesday, selling off bespoke shoes that weren’t picked up, were made in the wrong colour or for whatever other reason (other than quality) were never sold....
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Animation – in Anderson & Sheppard, Dunhill, Edward Green
I’ve received a few odd communications over the years, but this is the first time anyone has drawn a cartoon of me. As a big fan of graphic novels myself, particularly Chris Ware, this was a lovely...
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Arnys bespoke tailoring at Berluti
There haven’t been many people into the Arnys workshop since it was reopened under Berluti’s ownership. Indeed, there is still a ban on photography in the workshop itself, which seems a little odd...
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Parisian gentlemen
In Paris last week Dirnelli organised a wonderful dinner of fans of the blog and bespoke gentlemen. He is fourth from the right. The other gentlemen will remain nameless. Around the table were...
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Graham Browne sale
As per last year, Graham Browne will be holding a Christmas sale on suits and jackets commissioned during the last few days of the year. They will be taking orders on December 23, 24, 30 and 31. Suits...
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Cifonelli jacket, D’Avino shirt and others
A reader asked what I was wearing at the dinner of Parisian Gentlemen last week. Fortunately, a profile photo was taken that day at the intellectual property conference I was speaking at – the reason...
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