Why Jeans Are Sized in Inches (And What That Means for You)
I was half way through re stringing up the shelves in our boot room last Sunday, tape measure hanging round my neck when one of the lads sent me a…
Are New Balance Trainers Actually Worth It?
My mate Ross texted me a photo from inside a JD Sports changing bit, a pair of 990s on his feet, asking “are these actually worth eighty quid or am…
Everything I Wish I Knew About Trainers Before I Bought Mine
A woman on the treadmill next to me at the gym, completely unprompted, mid conversation with someone else, said “you know men’s and women’s trainers are basically the same shoe…
Are Trainers Actually Smart Casual?
Had a lad come in last month, work do coming up, asked if his white leather trainers would pass for smart casual. I looked at them properly, not just a…
What Shirts Left Really Means
I once spent four minutes in a changing room in Uniqlo doing up and undoing a shirt, not because it didn’t fit, but because I’d noticed the buttons were on…
What Jeans Are Actually In Right Now, No BS
So my flatmate walks into the kitchen last Tuesday, looks at me stood there in the jeans I’ve been wearing on repeat for about three weeks, and just goes “are…
Everything I Wish I Knew About Shirt Before I Bought Mine
My old man said something to me at Christmas that’s been rattling round my head since. He was going on about how shirts “used to just fit”, you bought a…
Why Are Mens Jeans So Low Rise All of a Sudden?
Tried a pair of jeans on in a changing room in the Bullring back end of January and had a proper moment of panic, because I could see my own…
How Shorts Fit Is Supposed to Work
People will genuinely go to war over two inches of fabric near a kneecap, which is mad when you think about how little the average person clocks about their own…
Are Cargo Pants Actually Back?
One of my year nines asked me, completely straight faced, why I was wearing “dad on a school trip trousers.” I was wearing chinos. Plain, navy, entirely unremarkable chinos. I…