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Sebastian Whorsley, Middle Relief and Ascot Justice
**Structural Support**: In the near future, girdles will actually tone your body—so go ahead and have that third brioche. [Style Dash] **Alphabet Soup**: GQ + CFDA. [FWD] **H to the Izzo**: Your man...
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Shades of Brown
Genoese artist Nicola Villa specializes in watercolors of street scenes, making him a kind of gallery-bound Sartorialist. He’s building buzz with a couple exhibitions stateside—most notably for...
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Kempt Man of the Hour: Terrence Howard
*Photographed by our fearless lensman, Patrick McMullan.* The gangster / jazz great look is a hard one to pull off with any measure of success. Too often practitioners err with exaggeratedly-cut or...
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Reel to Reel
As you may have noticed, we’re pretty impressed by fabric innovations. Which is why we’re both awestruck and perplexed by these made-to-order fedoras, made from an innovative combination of colored...
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On the Bench
This snap comes from a cache of negatives, newly unearthed at an auction in Chicago. The result is a surprisingly thorough document of a time when people rode horses in the middle of the street,...
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Kempt Man of the Hour: Tom Sturridge
via Bauer Griffin, see it full size Tom Sturridge is having a good week. This snap caught the British actor just before the new year, touring Paris with Sienna Miller (nice work if you can get it) and...
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Keep It Under Your Hat
Flooding the zone with fedoras, courtesy of Archival Clothing. This is how your granddad did it.
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Shipley & Halmos Fall/Winter ’12 Line, Annotated
Shipley & Halmos’s latest fall/winter lookbook just arrived in our inbox, and as usual, it’s pretty sharp stuff. It’s got at least two of 2012’s signature items—the shearling coat and the...
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Gangster, Gangster
We’ll admit, we’re suckers for 1940s gangster-chic. The fedoras, the wingtips, the tommy guns. So today’s release of the trailer for Gangster Squad (Ruben Fleischer’s Brolin-Penn-Gosling vehicle set...
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The Disenfranchised Youth, Circa 1966
In 1966, Life magazine checked in on the street youth of Watts in the wake of riots and another dubious police shooting, and what they found was a surprisingly dapper lot. On first mention, South...
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The Basics of Buying a Panama Hat
Here at Kempt HQ, we often receive letters from our readers—most of it adoring fan mail—but every so often we get a question from an inquiring soul who we feel the need to help. This week, we received...
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Above the Brim
Now that we’ve got fall firmly in our sights, here’s a wide-brimmed wool topper from Andalusia, Spain, by way of French label April77, that should land you in the sweet spot between affected fashion...
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Ryan Gosling’s Gangster Squad Fedora Is 2013’s Scorpion Jacket
This weekend, the marked uptick in on-screen handsomeness continues with Gangster Squad finally hitting theaters. We caught a screening earlier this week, and throughout all of the expected...
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John Belushi in His Natural Habitat
Today would’ve been John Belushi’s 64th birthday, and of all his memorable comedic moments, his turn as half of the outlaw do-gooders in black suits, fedoras and Wayfarers has always resonated with us...
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Five Failing Institutions That Should Get into Menswear
The recent news that the US Postal Service is launching a clothing line in an effort to right its financial woes has taken the menswear blogosphere by storm. While we’d rather not speculate too much...
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