September 2010
1 post
Hemming and Hawing
So, you just picked up your first new suit. Something in 100% worsted wool, two or three button (better yet: three-roll-two, the best of both worlds) in navy or charcoal with a nice natural shoulder and canvassed lining (a topic for another day) and matching flat-front trousers. You’re feeling pretty good about yourself having made an educated choice, as you stand in front of the...
August 2010
1 post
Accessories: The Case for Braces
No, I’m not referring to Forrest Gump’s “magic shoes” or Sean Astin’s metal mouth in Goonies. “Braces” is actually the correct term for what is normally referred to in the States as “suspenders.” Braces have a bit of a frumpy image in most people’s minds, having long since been replaced by belts except in the cases of firemen and...
July 2010
6 posts
Dress Shoe Guide
Let’s face it, the majority of guys have shoe racks that look like shelves lined with shiny pairs of black and (maybe) brown bricks. The Kenneth Cole Reaction wave that swept the ’90s has robbed men of all knowledge relating to the traditional dress shoe and left only the blocky, square-toed, corrected-grain leather, rubber-soled, Pontiac Aztek of footwear to wear with suits. If...
A/O Original Pilot Sunglasses
One of the things that seems common to most men is an appreciation for useful, well-made gadgets that are built for situations we will never actually be in, but we love to pretend anyway. Just like women are always daydreaming about their wedding day, guys are always daydreaming about the day their 1000m dive watch with Helium-release valve tells them exactly how much time they have left to...
Sneakers
Summer is in full swing and most wardrobes tend to sway a little more towards the casual, mine included. Let’s face it, you can’t wear double-leather-soled longwing gunboats (we’ll get to those at some point) all year round. Boat shoes are a nice alternative but sometimes you just want the relaxed look of a sneaker. Now, I’m not talking about those bejeweled...
The Tie Bar
In the past I’ve spoken at length about the importance of ties in a man’s wardrobe. Men should have a decent selection of ties for all types of occassions and pairing with different suits and sportcoats. Of course, even though we’d all love to have a sea anemone of ties greet us every time we open the closet door, the fact of the matter is that, for being a strip of...
Summer Suits
I often hear guys complain about how much they hate to wear suits in the summer. If they absolutely have to wear one, the suit jacket will come off the first chance they get, usually exposing an ill-fitting, sweat-stained, poorly-ironed shirt made of some techno fabric conceived in a bubbling test-tube. Even worse, an A-shirt worn underneath (or, wife-beater, for my female readers) typically...
Rub Some Shirt In It
Welcome to my new blog! If you’ve pretty much forgotten about “Rub Some Dirt In It,” I don’t blame you. Lack of time and motivation coupled with a precedent of very long posts on a wide variety of topics have made it difficult to keep up (though I still plan to update it on a semi-regular basis). “Rub Some Shirt In It” is dedicated to classic men’s...
