All In The Details

All In The Details: Choose your shade of brown wisely (Leather Shoes, part IV)

October 5, 2012
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We discuss brown leather lace-ups extensively on this site. I always recommend brown shoes over black in pretty much every situation.

A question I always get (but haven’t really addressed) is which shade of brown is best.

For now, let’s discuss the most common variations of brown you may see out there.

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All In The Details: Is your shirt a REAL dress shirt?

September 26, 2012
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Just because your shirt looks, feels, smells, and tastes like a real dress shirt, doesn’t mean it actually IS a real dress shirt.

Scary, right? It’s like you’ve been lied to all your life.

Continue reading to learn the differences and find out why it matters in the first place!

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All In The Details: Two-button vs. three-button (vs. all other) suits

September 14, 2012
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For a lot of us, a suit is one of those items that we only need to wear once in a while, and we tend to not worry about how well they fit, what shape they’re in, or what shape WE’RE in until the day we actually need to put it on.

Not all suits are equal. If you’re only going to own one, make it count. Here’s what I recommend…

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All In The Details: What’s up with those holes? (Leather Shoes, Part III)

August 30, 2012
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Did you know that there are differences in the level of formality when it comes to your leather dress shoes?

It doesn’t matter so much nowadays (at least not in the overly-casual US where I live), but depending on the event you’re attending, you should be wearing a certain kind of dress shoe.

Read on and peep the subtle differences you may or may not have noticed.

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All In The Details: Black leather shoes CAN be interesting! (Leather Shoes, part II)

August 23, 2012
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If you’ve been reading EG for any length of time, you’ve probably caught wind of my disdain for black leather shoes as the all-in-one solution for every dressy occasion.

One thing I do really love is MIXING black leather with brown. Say what? Read on to see what I mean, and how you can combine the two (in one shoe) for an elegant, classy, interesting twist on an otherwise boring black leather dress shoe.

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