F/W Uniform

During Fall and Winter I tend to live in OCBDs and lambswool sweaters. The shirts are nearly always from Brooks or J. Press (planning to get into a couple of Mercers by year end) and the sweaters are mostly J. Crew or Bean. (I don't own a Shaggy Dog but I might pull the trigger this winter.) Whether I'm at work or home, this combo with a pair of Levi's (or khakis) and some boat shoes or chukkas gets me through the chilly season.

This Is Fall: Good Things From Across The Pond

 Some of my favorite Fall items happen to be English-made:

A note about the Bosmere wax jacket above: Pictured is my wife's jacket but after seeing her use it for the last few years I've decided to order one for myself. I keep seeing "wax jacket roundups" (most recently over at A Trip Down South) but I have yet to see anyone mention these. Made with gardeners and equestrians in mind these jackets are really inexpensive (you won't believe it), warm, and great-looking. The "poor man's Barbour?" Perhaps, but at the price I just paid it's a no-brainer. If you are interested in these, leave a comment and I'll email you with details.

S.N.S. Herning NAVAL

James Dean gets his calcium.

Somebody told me a long time ago (when I was a "husky" in Sears and Roebucks terms and much too young to be worrying about these sorts of things) that vertical stripes are the way to go and horizontal stripes are not my friend.  Today, I enjoy the look of vertical stripes to a tremendous extent, not so much because I suspect it makes me appear thinner but because it evokes a traditional, "university" feel that I am very much comforted by, perhaps because I associate the time I spent in college with the total absence of technology in my life and the constant company of books and music.  In any case, I'm too far gone to try horizontal French naval stripes.  (Or navy stripes, depending on where you are.  In Canada, they call their bacon "bacon.") However, I think it's a cool and timeless look and I would like to see it adopted more by young and adventurous people this year. The NAVAL (below) from S.N.S. Herning was first issued in 1979, sewn in Denmark on old imported German machines and is available in two color patterns from one of my favorite stockists, Inventory.