Every now and then I get sucked into a rabbit hole. Something ignites inside me and I spend time in extreme obsession, voraciously researching blogs, videos, and books about a subject. Lately, that subject is men’s style. It started by looking up how to iron a dress shirt in youtube and finding the channel “Gentleman’s Gazette,” a blog about class menswear. Now I’m learning about different fabrics in Alan Flusser’s “Dressing the Man”, the difference between British and Italian style, and the style differences between Italian tailors in the south of the country like in Napoli vs the tailors in the north like in Milan in a podcast series by The Hog Town Rake.
My Ebay account has been revived, my watchlist growing with sport jackets, shirts, trousers, various neckties, double breasted suits, and other vintage menswear.
Our endless journey towards elegance is ongoing, whether we know it or not, and I look forward to sharing my progress here in the Elegant Man.