Boxing The Compass

An entirely great pocket square found its way to my wardrobe recently.  A giant high-wheel, with spokes bedecked in similar vehicles is bor...

Why you are a chump if you ever BUY NEW COLLAR STAYS For whatever reason, in the last 3 days I got hundreds of (remarkably polite) request...

Turn Us Under, Not Asunder For whatever reason, after about eight years, these Thomas Pink butcher-check shirts decided to simultaneously...

The Legend of Baggier Pance. Ever since the Golf Foxtrot transitioned to Whisky India Foxtrot Echo several years back, I have maintained a ...

An unexpectedly poignant quote concerning the women who opt for the urban dairy farmer look.            "I see these 16-40 year o...

   After some digging, I found the old Turnbull & Asser book with some vintage advertisements for their World War 1-era rainskirts or ...

For the following quiz, write A, B, C, and D on a piece of paper.  Put a mark next to the letter each time you choose that answer (only 1 a...

  $7-20 for a comb?  What could it possibly do?  The same thing that the $1 comb does.  What is does not do is till your scalp like a tobacc...

Questions submitted between January 25 and February 25, 2011 "Dear YWP, Is it true that you shouldn't wear the same shoes two d...

Dollars and Taxes in Dallas, Texas I know, it's a Chico Marx joke.  On a recent business trip to Dallas, I stopped by Ahab Bowen , a ...

Brooks Brothers/Thomas Pink Merger An old Thomas Pink shirt of mine was in need of surgery.  While the collar was miraculously in healthy ...

"Dear Yankee-Whiskey-Papa, I was visiting with my grandfather who is one of the best dressed men I know, and he gave me an ascot of hi...