Rapper Pitbull Promotes Classic Black Tie
Like many other North Americans I watched parts of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Eve special during last night’s festivities. The highlight for me was seeing Pitbull (the rapper behind the hit “Give Me...
View ArticleSimply Elegant: The Fly-Front Shirt
Of all the attempts to improve black tie since its heyday in the 1930s there is only one innovation I would endorse unconditionally: the fly-front shirt. Post-thirties creations first suffered from...
View ArticleOf Fly Fronts and French Cuffs
I bought my first fly-front shirt recently and the process was definitely not as simple as I had thought it would be. Here’s what I learned . . . Lesson Number One: Understated Shouldn’t Mean Plain....
View Article2013 GQ Men of the Year Awards Red Carpet
(Getty Images) Here’s a look at some of the black tie seen at the GQ Men of the Year awards held in London on September 3. Former English footballer Jamie Redknapp in a classically styled three-piece...
View Article2013 Emmys Red Carpet
(CBS) The faux-tuxedo was in full force at the Primetime Emmys last Sunday. Rare were distinctive dinner suit traits such as one-button jackets, shawl or peaked lapels, bow ties and waist coverings....
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