The Best Pants for Summer

Jeans are many things to many people, but they are not summer pants. Heavy and slow-to-dry, denim is best worn during the nine or so months of Canadian winter. For summer, opt for lightweight, breathable pants in slim-fitting styles. But what is there beyond jeans? Levi’s 511 Skinny Twill Trouser … Read More

The Sharpest Coats for Spring

Unpredictable spring weather poses a unique problem for the practical urban gentleman: What coat to wear? It’s got to be robust enough to stand up to chilly gusts and rain, yet light enough to keep you comfortable when the sun pokes through. And, of course, it’s got to look really, … Read More

Don Cherry’s 10 Commandments of Style

Don Cherry’s hockey icon status earned him the biopic treatment this week, with CBC’s “Keep Your Head Up, Kid.” But the 76-year-old is also a bona fide style guru. Here, his fashion commandments. Follow them with caution. Thou shalt ignore trends. “My style is late-1920s and ’30s, when men wore … Read More

Leon Drexler: Toronto’s Bespoke Hat-Maker

Call it a changing of the fedoras: The very week that the legendary Rotman’s Hat Shop and Haberdashery officially shuttered its doors, Stephen Temkin delivered his first Leon Drexler hat. Toronto men with a taste for old-school fedoras, handmade from the finest materials, breathed a sigh of relief. “Every city … Read More

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