Remember those chinos you should have in your wardrobe by now? Well it turns out they may well have been relegated to the sidelines of sartorial history if it weren’t for Stuart Cramer, early 20th Century textile baron and owner … read more →

Oftentimes, style terms that seem like they should have a pretty simple explanation, well… they don’t. (Foxing, for example, has pretty much zero to do with foxes.) There are those lucky instances, though, where the name and the reasoning behind … read more →

OK, so it kind of sounds like it could be the name of a company that supplies parts for hovering treadmills in The Land of Tomorrow!™, but Incotex isn’t actually as new school as all of that. The brand got … read more →

Traditionally made from carded staple wool (but now as common in cotton, silk, and polyester), broadcloth is a woolen (as opposed to worsted) fabric with a hard, flat, smooth hand. Its plain weave construction is almost identical to poplin (which … read more →