menswear
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Felt Hat Day
Happy National Felt Hat Day to those who celebrate. For those of you non-weirdos who don’t know arcane details about headwear, Felt Hat Day is traditionally observed on September 15 as the day to switch over from wearing straw hats to wearing felt hats. It goes back to the era when brimmed hats were pretty… Continue reading
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Fool in the Rain
This year for my birthday, I got a waxed-cotton jacket. You don’t see a lot of those here in the U.S., but they are popular rain gear/outerwear in the U.K. I’ve been wanting one for a while, as I like the look and they always seemed a good fall/spring choice for the wet and dismal… Continue reading
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Like It’s 1999
Ever since I found that 1990s Orioles jacket a few days back, I started wondering where some of my old Baltimore caps were stashed away. I looked in the most obvious places and came up empty-handed. Tonight, on a whim, I decided to check the basement. Bingo! I found the cap I wore a lot… Continue reading
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Out of Mothballs
There was a point within my lifetime, when baseball was probably still a more popular sport among Americans than football. Personally, up until the 1990s, I cared a lot more about baseball than any other sport. The team I followed daily in the box scores and on TV whenever I could watch them was the… Continue reading
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The Odd Wardrobe
One of the formative television shows of my life is The Odd Couple (1970-75). I have memories of watching some original-run episodes with my mother when I was very young. Then, when I was a little older, our cable system featured WPIX, so the reruns were always available to me, and I took full advantage… Continue reading
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The Revolution Will be Goodyear-Welted
In a world where Crocs and HOKAs have become part of the established uniform, wearing these brown semi-brogues today felt like an act of civil disobedience. Continue reading
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A Man of Many Hats
It was always in the cards for me to be a hat guy, even if it took me a half-century to fully embrace my destiny. My father never left the house without a hat. Part of that was because he was bald, but it was also largely generational. Being born in 1922, he came of… Continue reading
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I Won’t Quit Wearing Ties
I am not exactly what someone would call a “fashion plate.” For most of my life, I was positively indifferent toward clothes. My daily wardrobe ensembles were usually slovenly and uncoordinated. I was never the kind of guy you’d see on the cover of GQ. (Hell, I would have gotten laughed off the pages of… Continue reading
About Me
Researcher. Marketer. Teacher. Father of adult children and dogs. 20th Century holdover. Central New York native. Long-suffering Buffalo Bills fan. History nerd. Traveler. Vintage advertising enthusiast. Hat wearer.