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Fashion Week Hangover #2
Robert Geller We return to our runway recaps, detailing the top ten Kempt looks from Fashion Week. It’s important to note here that since most men’s collections are revealed to marketers and buyers...
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Thrown Together
Our friends at UrbanDaddy just turned us on to Assembly New York, a new vintage-plus boutique on the Lower East Side. Like their neighbors Black Sheep and Prodigal Sons, Assembly stocks a healthy...
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Cottage Industry
As we’ve noted before, cobbling’s a tough racket. And while we’ve seen a lot of good stuff come out of the UK, domestic shoe men are usually more interested in basketball than brogues. But there’s...
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Stocked Up
Today, our friends at UrbanDaddy take a look at Stock, one of New York’s best vintage stores. It’s equally beloved as a source for designers, a reference point for devotees of Early American Menswear,...
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Miles and Miles
Our friends at UrbanDaddy put us onto this late 60s picture of Miles Davis—currently on sale in limited edition at New York’s Morrison Hotel Gallery—and it made us reconsider the man as an unlikely...
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Born to be Wild
Now that we’ve set you up with a moped, you may need a tougher jacket to get you through the occasional wipeout. After all, even the briefest brush with the pavement will leave your peacoat well and...
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The Tieman Cometh
Vintage lover and Friend-of-Kempt David Hart has been one of our favorite tie men since we saw his scotch-plaid bow ties back in November, but after his UrbanDaddy write-up, we figured it was time to...
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The Designer’s Guide to Grenson
One of the perks of the blogging life is that we occasionally get to sit down with brilliant designers. Now is one of those times. The gentleman in question is Tim Little, the Creative Director at...
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Keeping Up Waxed Cotton and Leather
You’ve heard this one before, but it bears repeating: treat your leather gear right, and it’ll last forever. (The same goes for waxed cotton, while we’re at it.) And since you’ve already got your...
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Nick Offerman on Nudity, Drinking and Mustache Grooming
Our brothers in arms over at UrbanDaddy Chicago recently caught up with Illinois’s native son Nick Offerman, best known for his mustachioed brawniness (and playing a guy named Ron Swanson on TV)....
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Your New Favorite Summer Pastime: Frescobol
Last week, our colleagues at UrbanDaddy SF turned us on to a curious summer sport from 1940s Brazil called “Frescobol” and a group of gents trying to introduce it to America by way of handsome...
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His Royal Coziness
Yesterday, our esteemed colleagues over at UrbanDaddy tipped us off to the opening of Wittmore—your newest destination for Internet handsomeness. And while there’s plenty of other really, really...
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Your Maine Line to Rugged Nautical-ness
The more nautical-leaning Americana-philes have been mining the aesthetic of Maine’s craggy coastline for years, so it’s nice to see a shop actually located in Portland, ME, get in on the action. And...
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The Stat Sheet: Solid & Striped Swimwear
All this talk of layering, bundling, flannel and wool has got us feeling for… swim trunks. Hey, it’s summer-o’-clock somewhere (in the entire southern hemisphere, Miami, LA, the tropics… a lot of...
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A Vault Full of Dapperness for the Taking
For those of you lucky enough to be in New York City this weekend, we have some really, really ridiculously good-looking news. Our comrades-in-style over at UrbanDaddy are hosting a two-day,...
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Shop Visit: A Sneak Peek at J. Press York Street
A lot of bloggerly ink has been spilled in the excitement over J. Press’s neo-trad capsule collection York Street, helmed by the #menswear golden boys at Ovadia & Sons. It’s the sort of brilliance...
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Take a Look into the New Carson Street Clothiers
Our comrades-in-style over at UrbanDaddy NYC got a sneak peek at the hotly anticipated men’s shop, Carson Street Clothiers, that’s opening in SoHo this week. The brick-and-mortar—not to mention, a lot...
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Nathan Bogle on His New Line and the State of Menswear
Our comrades-in-style over at UrbanDaddy tipped us off to today’s launch of Jardine, the brand-new menswear label helmed by Nathan Bogle—he cofounded a little brand you may have heard of, by the name...
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And Now… A Shape-Shifting Menswear Shop
This new menswear shop that’s landed in an impossibly small corner of NYC caught our eye because of its ingenious use of space: it’s basically the two-story equivalent of an imperialism-era traveling...
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How Mad Men Gave Itself the Mad Men Treatment
A little show called Mad Men returns this Sunday. And heralding this great news has been one of the most stylish ad campaigns we’ve seen in a while. (Not that we’d expect anything less.) We’re...
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