"Clothes make the man." -- Mark Twain Mr. Fish knows men's clothing. From jeans to jacquard, creepers to caps, Mr. Fish has spent nearly a lifetime contemplating the past, present and future of menswear. Email him at fishify@gmail.com.
Socks. It’s safe to assume you’ve heard of them, right? This familiar, though thoroughly overlooked item, is really one of the unsung heroes of the clothing world. They do so much for you and only get...
Just a quick announcement before heading off to write about socks and whatnot.Beginning Thursday, November 17, and running through Sunday, November 20, a cool new interactive Pop-up booth will be materializing, as if by magic, to share with...
It’s easy enough to think that jeans are jeans. Blue. Denim. Jeans. American as apple pie (or what ever). Right? Sort of. Despite the ubiquity of denim in America, the fabric actually originates in NĂ®mes, France, where...
When preparing to write this piece about Cowboy Code body powder for men, I stumbled across something that I once knew, but have long forgotten - a tidbit of information as if from another lifetime: Gene Autry’s Cowboy...
Duluth Trading Company rocks (period). For quite some time now, I have been meaning to buy some Side Clip Suspenders, and last week I finally placed an order. Though not the only company making suspenders of this sort, the Duluth...
Good companies don’t just happen. It can take a lot of time, and generally some amount of sacrifice, for a company to get a good reputation, and for that reputation to become common knowledge. Timberland is becoming one...
Regular readers of this column know how much I like big black boots. These same readers also know how much I like Fluevogs. To some, these two passions, though both shoe-related, seem incongruous. I say that they are merely...
Back in 2009, you were treated to a review of the Timberland Pro Quadro Oxford Titan XL Safety Shoe. Two years later, out came the long term testof those shoes; a pair that has been an outstanding performer since...
It’s been a while since Storm of London appeared in this column. It’s not that they weren’t busy coming up with interesting and innovative time pieces for a world that uses cell phones instead...
PACT, the Bay Area cause-based brand known for top-notch organic cotton underpantshas recently launched its first collection of shirts. If you are familiar with this column, even in the slightest, there’s a good chance that...