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Close-up of Brooks Brothers button-down shirt
  • Items

The Other Polo Shirt: The Story of the Button-Down Collar

  • by Theo Coetzer
  • Posted on May 24, 2021November 19, 2021

America’s oldest clothing company turned a sports shirt into a national symbol and a global sensation. This is the history of the button-down.

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Close-up of two knit ties
  • Items

A Hundred Years of Knit Ties

  • by Theo Coetzer
  • Posted on March 31, 2021November 21, 2021

Jazz up your tie game with the neckwear staple from the 1920s that looks even better a century on.

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Stack of colourful sweatshirts
  • Items

Jocks and Preps Agree, the Sweatshirt’s Key

  • by Theo Coetzer
  • Posted on March 15, 2021November 21, 2021

Read here about the history and invention of the multifunctional king of sports- and loungewear: the crew neck sweatshirt.

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Man wearing suit striped regiment tie panama hat and penny loafers
  • Items

Reinterpretation and the Regimental Tie

  • by Theo Coetzer
  • Posted on January 15, 2021November 22, 2021

Striped ties (rep and regimental) have a colourful history, which includes the military, a visit from a prince, and some pranks taken all too seriously.

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Clarkes tan boat shoes with razor siping
  • Vocabulary

‘Siping’ and the Soles of Boat Shoes

  • by Theo Coetzer
  • Posted on January 8, 2021June 21, 2022

When Paul Sperry invented the Top-Sider, he took a penknife to a rubber sole, resulting in a design he would eventually patent. But did he get there first?

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