The Shirt Sizing Guide I Wish Someone Had Given Me
I’ve had a customer tell me, dead straight faced, that a medium is a medium and always has been, so just buy your size and stop overthinking it. I’ve also…
Are Cuffed Trousers Actually Still a Thing?
My nephew turned up at Christmas in trousers with a cuff on them so deep you could have posted a letter in it, and my brother, who has never once…
How Watch Fit Is Supposed to Work
The rule gets repeated so often it’s practically stitched into the strap: watch goes on your non-dominant wrist, right handers wear it on the left, left handers wear it on…
What Trousers Are Actually In Right Now
There was a fella at the Sunday market a few weeks back, flicking through a rail of trousers so fast he wasn’t really looking at any of them, just running…
Are Loafers Still Worth the Investment?
My mate Dan turned up to a barbecue in July wearing loafers with no socks, and someone asked him if he’d come straight from a meeting. He hadn’t. He’d come…
How Scarf Fit Is Supposed to Work
I have stood in my own hallway, coat half done up, restarting a scarf three separate times before leaving the house, because the first two attempts made me look like…
How Belt Fit Is Supposed to Work
I’ve had two mates give me completely opposite belt advice within about a fortnight of each other, and neither of them was wrong exactly, they were just both convinced their…
What Suit Jacket Really Means
I once spent forty minutes in a changing room in Moorgate, alone, doing a sort of slow squat in front of a mirror, trying to work out whether a jacket…
How Jacket Fit Is Supposed to Work
Right, I was sat with a bag of frozen peas on my knee after Sunday league, going absolutely nowhere fast, catching up on a stag do group chat that had…
How to Tell If Your Shirt Actually Fits
I was in a scrum of a Sunday market stall in the Barras, three deep in front of a rail, a shirt already half off its hanger and half onto…