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Part 3 of The Wolf vs Goat Guide to Menswear One of the questions I hear most often is: "What's the best fabric for trousers?" It's a simple question, but it doesn't have a simple answer. Choosing cloth isn't like choosing a paint color. The best fabric depends on where you'll wear the trousers, the climate you live in, how often you'll wear them, and how you want the garment to perform. That's why we never choose fabrics based on prestige alone. We choose them because they're the right cloth for the garment we're trying to create. To understand why,...

Camel hair and cashmere are the two most storied luxury animal fibers in menswear, and they are regularly confused, both are fine undercoat fibers, both are soft, both are expensive, and both are sold in knitted and woven form. They are, however, different fibers with different hand-feel, different warmth profiles, and different use-cases. This is the head-to-head as we weigh it in the studio. For the broader premium-fiber landscape (where yak fits in, and how all three compare on warmth), our yak and camel warmth compared pillar covers the full category. Where each fiber comes from Cashmere comes from the...

You guys ever heard of the “twin film phenomenon?” Even if you haven’t you’ve probably seen it happen. Basically it’s when two movies come out around the same time that are very similar in plot or story that were made by two different studios. For example, do you remember a movie from 1998 about a world-destroying asteroid hurtling towards Earth? Okay, which one do you remember, Armageddon or Deep Impact? Or did you go to the theater in 2013 to see a movie about a terrorist attack on the White House? Was it Olympus Has Fallen or White House Down?...

I am a huge fan of sustainable resources. It's one of the reasons, I dig cellulose fibers.  Without get to technical, a cellulose fiber is made from esters of plant based material, i.e. corn, wood, leaves, and bark. The first artificial fiber was created in 1838 but wasn't used for textiles until the 1890's. Since then technology has changed, a shit load. With today's technology we have Tencel,  Sorona, Kopak, Bamboo, and Modal.  Because all of fibers are cellulose based, they all share some kick ass qualities. Some fibers have additional properties that help you, the client have a better...