Today’s Lesson: An otherwise spot-on spring look—trim navy cotton suit, white shirt, dark tie, brown suede dress shoes—can suffer mortally from inattention to detail. To wit, we repeat: When wearing a three-button suit, only fasten the middle button.

Though spring is still but a glimmer in Nature’s eye, we’re all raring to get our ankle-high suede kicks in play. So which ones are “chukkas” and which are “desert boots”? Often used synonymously in modern parlance, these two species … read more →

There’s a fairly antiquated, easy-to-adhere-to style rule that says belts and shoes must match. But as you may have read here (or here), matching isn’t always a hard-and-fast matter. In fact, we’d go so far as to say that the … read more →

It’s often stressed that your shoes shouldn’t exactly match anything else you’re wearing… and that’s made easier by the fact that most of us are consistently pulling on brown or black shoes. They go with nearly everything, yet don’t seem … read more →