Stereotypically speaking, the mention of “Big & Tall” evokes a connotation of big and boxy clothes for really tall people to wear because nothing else fits them. It also has the stereotype that nothing in a Big & Tall store fits. Well, gentlemen, that is not the case. You can find ill-fitting clothes anywhere, and… Read more…

I always looked at “movember” as a month that we all just deal with and ignore our fashionable male brethren trying to become the ‘Brawny Man’. However every once in a while, a man can make the mustache not only work, but also make it fashionable! I’m happy to introduce you to Zach. Zach works… Read more…

By Kate Jacobsen It’s Tuesday, February 7th and it’s half past the middle of the night. I should be in bed since I work at 9:00 a.m. but instead, I am sitting amongst piles of clothes, shoes, accessories and handbags anxiously awaiting placement in my empty over-sized suitcase, in order to finally write this post…. Read more…

Masterpiece Classic has long been party of my weekly repertoire, and Downton Abbey is no exception. In fact, it has almost become an obsession. So it made me very excited to read an interview on Mr. Porter with Ian Kelly, one of the actors who played a doctor at Moorfields Hospital last season. Kelly is… Read more…

By Alan Neff Yes, I know this is a site about fashion.  I write for it from time to time and help edit its copy.  The Publisher, however, invited me to write about “inspiration,” without any qualifiers, so I thought about what – and who – came to mind when I focused on that word. … Read more…

By Alan Neff When last we meet, I shared the statistic that 72% of men shop for their own clothes.  Today, I’m addressing the 72% and the portion of the 28% who are willing to take control of shopping from helicopter moms, spinster aunts, spouses, life-partners, one-night-stands, and, in desperate moments, the occasional random bystander…. Read more…

By Alan Neff This year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday are behind us.  Apparently, they’ve gone well enough to set records and cheer “The Markets“, which are usually fretful and skittish these days, in case you hadn’t noticed. Men probably made a lot of purchases on those two days.  Your correspondent bought two pairs of… Read more…

By Alan Neff The middle of the annual football schedule is upon us.  And I mean U.S. football, the kind where players may legally employ all of their limbs on the field of play. It’s the time of the year when, more often than not, fans’ expectations for their teams fall with the temperatures. By… Read more…

By Alan Neff Today, we speak of men’s jewelry.  We ask, “To bling…or not to bling?  That is the question.” Okay, perhaps it isn’t of Shakespearean magnitude, but it works for us. Until recently, when men considered adding shiny, eye-catching jeweled/precious-metal accessories to their wardrobes, they confined their choices to cufflinks, tie bars, tie tacks, tie-chains,… Read more…

By Alan Neff A confounding request entered my mailbox recently: TheWorkingWardrobe’s intrepid Publisher asked me if I wanted to write about “tie stays.” Okay, I thought…’ties stays’…I can handle this. “It’s a straightforward topic,” I told myself, “covering the various forms of tie jewelry – tacks, bars, and chains.  I have an opinion about the… Read more…