What Coats Are Actually Worth Buying This Year
Every October, some menswear account will repost the same graphic. “Coats That Will Define The Season.” Dark green wool. A shearling collar. Something that passes for description, maybe, like a…
Does Gender Even Matter With On Running Shoes?
My roommate noticed said box in the hallway and asked why I’d ordered women’s sneakers. I hadn’t. I’d ordered a pair of On Cloud 5s in a specific colorway that…
How I Worked Out My Vest Size
I have a vest that lives rent-free inside my brain. Folding neatly in the corner of one of the many bins at a Strip District flea market, it remains something…
The Questions I Had About Flip Flops Sizing, Answered
Some guy at my gym looked down at my feet without me asking while I was mid stretch one day and said “your heel’s hanging off the back of that…
The Practical Guide to Buying Waistcoat
I’ve spent more time thinking about waistcoat buttons than I probably have about my own retirement savings account. And that’s not hyperbole for humor’s sake—I stood in my basement in…
Can Men Actually Wear Womens Running Shoes?
A friend of mine, Danny, recently texted me a photo of himself half-in, half-out of a running store dressing room wearing one Brooks Ghost on his left foot and its…
How to Actually Measure for Pyjamas
You’re doing a late night gift run. It’s midnight, three tabs down, your brother’s birthday is tomorrow and you made a promise that this year you wouldn’t get him just…
A Straightforward Guide to Slippers Fit
Two years ago, whenever anyone asked me about UGGs, I would just say they’re the same shoe regardless if it’s marketed as men’s or women’s (usually while shoving their stock…
How to Tell If Your Suit Trousers Actually Fits
I own gray wool trousers I wore to a wedding last October. You know the kind, where you spend twenty minutes standing solemnly saying nothing at the front of the…
The Practical Guide to Buying Slippers
Spoke to a dude at the store last month. Must have been sixty five years old talking about how his dad wore the same pair of shearling slippers for eleven…