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                                                              In a perfect world, bespoke clothing and excellent custom tailoring would be affordable and widely available. Commissioning a new suit would be as easy as going to the grocery store – every neighborhood would have its’ own local tailor with their own private atelier. Unfortunately, this clothing nirvana has yet to come to pass, and the vast majority of clothing that most of us will own is considered “off the rack” – created not for you individually, but produced from basic patterns designed to be suitable for a variety of body types. Fortunately, finding a good tailor, and...

                                                                Traditional men’s clothing – or dress clothing – is full of arcane rules and customs that are often inexplicable, yet are very important in demonstrating to the world that you know how to dress yourself. One of the most common mistakes men make when wearing suit jackets and sport coats is buttoning the bottom button (confession time: we’re guilty of this ourselves sometimes). Unless you’re wearing a one-button jacket, leave that bottom button undone.   But where did this rule come from? And what does it mean?   Fortunately, unlike many fashion traditions, we’re able to definitely trace the...

Anyone who lived through the ‘80s probably remembers some of that decade’s classic “buy American” ads. The ones that showed a mother trying to explain to her son why daddy lost his job at the factory, or a group of union workers singing “Buy American” songs. Those ads tried to save a struggling American manufacturing sector by appealing to consumers’ sense of patriotism, but the message was largely ineffective and mostly forgotten by the time the ‘90s tech boom hit. Only, a decade later, the message reappeared as the US entered its Great Recession. Except, this time, they were different....

Fashion and technology. The two ideas and the two industries are intertwined to some degree yet opinions of technology among those in fashion often couldn't be farther apart. Innovation and advances in technology have completely revolutionized manufacturing. As a result of technology, it is now possible to manufacture clothing at great scale; develop new designs, washes, textures, and materials; and even provide higher quality goods to the masses, among many other things. And while these are great advances worth noting, there is a trade off to be made when embracing technology to its fullest and among the upper echelons of...