Ape to Gentleman

Every autumn, there’s a point when getting dressed feels like a series of bad bets. Wear a jacket, and you’re too hot. Leave it at home, and you’re cold by lunchtime. Take the suede shoes out and, naturally, it starts raining.

The season offers plenty for the wardrobe, but predictable conditions aren’t among them. The answer is a little flexibility: layers you can shed...

At some point in every man’s sartorial journey, buying more clothes stops being the answer. Instead, it’s about buying better. Fewer pieces, more considered purchases and garments that do a lot more than simply display an expensive label.

Of course, not everything with a designer price tag deserves one. Plenty of costly clothes offer little beyond a famous name, but ot...

Getting bored of shorts and T-shirts? Us too. The simplicity of summer dressing is liberating for a while, but it’s not long before wearing basically the same thing every day starts to feel a little stifling. That’s why we’re always so thrilled when fall comes around and we’re able to experiment with layers, textures and longer shapes once again.

With the cooler weathe...

There are shirts, and then there are shirts. You know them when you see them. Immaculately cut, stitched with surgical precision, soft to the touch and with the perfect drape. These aren’t your run-of-the-mill, high-street, three-for-£20, sale-rail jobs. No. These are something else, something elevated. These are luxury shirts.

Luxury shirts are what men who l...

Brash branding and poor quality are everywhere in menswear today, often at the same time. There are a lot of people out there who are happy to drop large sums of cash on clothes, and many are more concerned with whose name is plastered across the chest than with how a garment fits or where it was made.

But what if you’re the type of guy who wants