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Get It Out Of Your System

January 03, 2019
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   Among the many forms of self-abuse that we iGents need to disabuse ourselves at some point in our sartorial Ausbildung is the idea that because anything is theoretical...
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In the Window

December 23, 2018
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  Long ago, when your correspondent was only beginning his sartorial journey, a well-informed Paris resident offered him these wise words: “The most beautiful shoes of th...
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Phantom Limbs

October 16, 2018
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   I’m looking at it now, half stuffed in a box, overflowing in its ample bulk, what seem like acres of lush, lush pile (pile like a pile carpet), ridiculously thick, rid...
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Making An Icon

October 04, 2018
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  Is the icon of today just the hidebound old crank of tomorrow? This thought brought to you by the intersection of various impressions that raised that question to me. 
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On the Best

September 14, 2018
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.    I was astonished to learn recently that a new international custom shoemaking competition, and even more astonished that 30 entries placed. I hadn’t counted on 30 dec...
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So we’ll go no more A-roving

September 11, 2018
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   I knew the art of travel was dead. We all know those hopelessly aspirational social media posts from clickbaiters with that tag, showing pictures of matching hardsided...
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