Today is a special day for the PG Team because after months of work, the beta version of the global guide to quality seals dedicated to men’s elegance is to be released. We take this important day (and not for the sake of the end of the world) to explain the philosophy, use and developments [...] Read more – ‘The PG Guide to Quality Seals: A New Global Platform Dedicated to Men’s Elegance’
-By Sonya Nicholson Some texts are better left untouched, as I am sure that I’m not able to improve upon John Henry Newman’s words regarding what makes a true gentleman, from The Idea of a University (1852). And so, with no commentary needed, we launch into the specific description of a gentleman, as written by Newman. This simple page [...] Read more – ‘The man behind the clothes’
-By Sonya Nicholson Stop and stare. Yes, Rita Hayworth had this power over millions. The personal style that she developed for herself, created a feeling of blissful dizziness among those who were lucky enough to know her. Developing her personal style didn’t happen in a vacuum…Rita made it happen…and each of us can create our own [...] Read more – ‘Personal Style Personified — How to Do It’
Gentlemen, As keen observers of masculine elegance, we often stumble on gross sartorial errors. With just a few details that are rather easy to master, these flaws still suffice to ruin the elegance of potentially very well assemble suits. Let us surf the positive wave of a diversity of images on the Net to remind [...] Read more – ‘The best of the worst’
Gentlemen, I am often asked on the controversial subject of tie knots in general and on my favorite knot in particular. Here is what I consider to be THE most interesting, becoming and practical… but not the easiest to achieve. Meet Old Bertie, that our friend Marc Guyot views, consistent with his nature and quintessential [...] Read more – ‘The perfect knot’
Gentlemen, Those of you in the know on (very) beautiful shoes worldwide have certainly heard about Leffot, THE essential New York address for the cognoscenti of beautiful footwear. The multibrand boutique overseen by the highly pleasant and knowledgeable Steven Taffel offers the Manhattan shoe-conscious a very beautiful selection of footwear from top international labels, including, [...] Read more – ‘PG Selection: Alden Tanker Boots for Leffot NYC’
Gentlemen, Just recently, ten days of intense travelling during which I had to pack and unpack my suitcase almost every day brought the constant difficulty of folding my suits and my shirts. Long after giving up on the very cumbersome and constricting suit carriers, as none of them had ever convinced me, I have joined [...] Read more – ‘How to fold suits and shirts in a suitcase’
Gentlemen, The so-called military style has always inspired designers and masculine bespoke houses. The current times are no exception, with a –rather fortunate- return of uniform inspired garments, essentially very structured, with many buttons and pronounced shoulder padding and epaulets. Personally, I have always liked this type of clothing, which I prefer to wear casually, [...] Read more – ‘Military inspirations’
Gentlemen, Today, we are turning our spot light on a label not very well known in France, but the quality of whose products we have always appreciated, as much for their style and high end fabrics as for their construction. Let us introduce the legendary Venetian label Belvest. This rather discreet brand has always offered [...] Read more – ‘The wonderful style of Belvest’
Gentlemen, No, this shall not be an umpteenth article on the diversity and wealth of cultural difference, but more prosaically a piece praising shirts with contrasting collars and/or cuffs. In the last few months, I must admit to having become quite fond of such shirts, which I used to consider as the exclusive stuff of [...] Read more – ‘In praise of contrasts’
Gentlemen, Today, we wish to salute the initiative (and very high precision work) of our friend Juhn Maing, globe trotter emeritus and publisher of a blog we very much love here at PG, and with whom we have been having an excellent long term relationship : SLEEVEHEAD His eBook is the first of its kind to [...] Read more – ‘A Guide to Sicilian tailors, a very commendable initiative’
Gentlemen, For almost two years, PG has been advocating for a full force return of the double-breasted suit in your closet, and to convince you to try the very elegant and flattering DB suit. In the last edition of The Rake, Bruce G. Boyer, who we consider the safest author in terms of taste and [...] Read more – ‘How to wear the double-breasted suit’
Gentlemen, For a few weeks, we have been seeing here and there a number of ads featuring what seems like an increasing trend (you know how much we love those): trimmed jackets. This very morning, stuck in Rive Gauche traffic with my Smart, I spent a long time staring at the back of a bus [...] Read more – ‘Trimmed jackets’
Gentlemen, Here is the third part of my recommendations, this time, on shoes. Like in the previous articles of this series, recommendations are organized by price range so that everyone can find the right footwear for his budget. As a long time shoe lover, I had to make drastic choices to keep this post legible [...] Read more – ‘Hugo’s recommendations Part 3: shoes’
For a few years now, the world of shirts has been rapidly shifting. After a long status quo, with no progress in style, cuts or materials, we have recently started to see an explosion of (more or less fortunate) creativity: collars buttoned in the middle, contrasted buttonholes, coloured fancy buttons, double (and even triple) buttoned [...] Read more – ‘Hugo’s Recommendations Part 1: Shirts’
Gentlemen, As we have frequently marvelled at on PG, the “made-to-measure” wave currently surfed by brands is far from having delivered its last lies or its last excesses. Today, pretty much anything can be made-to-measure: cars (the success of the Fiat 500 is mainly due to the almost unlimited choice of colour, pattern and accessories), [...] Read more – ‘Bespoke? Made-to-measure? Industrial measure? Defining the concepts’
Gentlemen, Following our recommendations on shirts, here is a brief “practical” summary of the details to look for when purchasing a shirt. They will help you immediately assess quality and tip the balance to ultimately prefer one over another. Be cautious, the absence of one or more of these details should not necessarily ban a [...] Read more – ‘Anatomy of a quality shirt: guidelines’
As we all know, us aesthetes often must suffer the daily grind brought about by certain endless debates. One of the most virulent polemics (within reason) opposes the finesse and style of the Blake shoe construction to long-lasting and comfortable Goodyear-welted shoes. Suits also follow this state of affairs. Case in point: the historical style [...] Read more – ‘Italian suits : which (shoulder) side are you on ?’
