The London Lounge

Attracted to the straightforward simplicity of the Alden method, I decided to run a field test on a pair of brown cordovan chukkas, armed with a Chinatown kitchenwares shop's coarsest brush, better suited to scrubbing stone floors than polishing leather. Two minutes of vigorous brushing later, the c...

Thanks, Yachtie. No sense wasting Heavyweight Division resources if Harrison's Universal fills the bill. For all its advantages to the residents of tailor-bereft cities like San Francisco, the traveling-tailor business model doesn't afford much leisure for flipping through swatch books. The cloth re...

Thank you, Mr. Alden.

Not to look ahead too far, but do you think a few "business grays" might make there way into a future round of heavyweight division offerings?

Robert

Inspired by the latest Cloth Club offerings, I'm hoping to fill out my closet with some workhorse heavyweights in gray worsted. The hopsacks and sharkskins from Scabal's Big Ben seem, to me, to have nice texture and character. Are they at the far end of the rusticity scale as compared to the Lesser ...