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Most cashmere damage is not from wearing. It is from washing, storing, and the first few weeks after purchase. The good news is that cashmere is not fragile; it is a durable fiber that lasts for years when it is treated the way the fiber actually behaves. This is the care guide we give our own customers, timed for summer storage but useful year-round. For what to look for before you buy (so you are not caring for a piece that was never going to last), read our cashmere buying guide first. Does cashmere pill? Yes, and so does every...

When most people shop for trousers, the first thing they notice is the fabric. A beautiful wool from Loro Piana or Vitale Barberis Canonico certainly makes an impression, but cloth alone doesn't make a great pair of trousers. The real difference lies in the construction. It's the hundreds of individual operations, many of which you'll never see, that determine how a pair of trousers fits, drapes, ages, and feels after years of wear. Those details require time, skilled hands, and a factory that refuses to compromise. At Wolf vs Goat, our trousers are produced in Southern Italy by a factory...

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?...