Posts by chang

Blue gingham shirts with a navy suit is one of my favorite combinations too. I've seen a lot of them with double cuffs as well, and I think this is a pretty normal combination even though gingham is considered a somewhat informal pattern.

I had my Golden Fleece trousers recut by Brooks Brothers about 6 months ago at the Seattle Brooks Brothers. The tailor there did some of the work and I think he sent the pants out for the rest of the recut, but the results were really...

I'm also a big fan of Vulfix. I use their travel brush and it's held up very well despite my less than stellar treatment of it. There have been quite a few times where I've had to pack it up into its container while still damp, and I...

My wife also purchased the shower gel for me recently, and when we last stopped in the Kiehl's store, I purchased the Original Musk fragrance. She later told me that had I not purchased it, she would have bought it for me. She says...

I have this umbrella, and it has some cheezy looking construction in some spots, like the velcro and plastic, but functionally it seems to have worked just fine. Hasn't flipped inside out on me or anything crazy yet. I got it because...

I wonder if there's a chart somewhere that shows the average shoulder widths in relation to their chest measurement. I'm about a 19" and size 42", but since friends ask me sometimes to help them with suit ideas, it would be...

I never worked for any high end clothier, just sold clothes part time briefly many years ago in college, but I noticed then that pretty much every man described themselves as broad shouldered when asking about fit. Put somebody in a...

Gin for me as well. Hendricks is my personal favorite, with cucumber. Straight or with tonic. I never cared for the taste of Bombay Sapphire for some reason. Most people I know say that it's their favorite gin, but I found it...

Maybe suit costs more, but there seems to be more rules in place so most people with some basic advice can probably at least look decent without making too much effort. I can't easily figure out what I want to wear casually, so it's a...

I went to a wholesaler and got a loose purple sapphire stone and had it set in a setting I chose. Saved me quite a bit of money. Lucky me that my wife wasn't wild about diamonds. I actually got an "engagement" ring after I...