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A Reader Question: How influenced are you by your parents' style of dress and behavior?

So let the raucous sleighbells jingle...

Don we now our gay apparel...

Let it snow. Let it snow. Let it snow! (But maybe wait a bit longer between storms?)

Reader Question: Best Shearling Slippers

Today's Mercer Resupply

NYT: The 50 Best Clothing Stores in America

The Classic "English Schoolboy Bookbag" Briefcase Design

It is not a proper Christmas party until the fifers arrive!

Christmas List, 2025

On Dasher, On Dancer, On Prancer and Blitzen, On Audis, on Volvos, on Bimmers and Benzes...

What does this look like to you?

A Reader Question: "Christmas" Sweaters?

Time to Break Out the Hot Pink Turtlenecks

The Guardian: "[M]eltdown over a preppy pink sweater for men."

For a Limited Time, A New Color from Steele Canvas - Auburn Canvas Collection - Made in Massachusetts

A Tie-on Liner for the L.L.Bean Boat and Tote from Casa de Telas, Made in the USA

Reader Question: Schoffel?

Who says we dress alike?

Tweed and Purple; Tweed and Peach

Question for the Community: Who makes the best tea kettle?

Bill Bryson on Small Pleasures

New Sweater Arrival from Bosie - This One is For the Men!

The Dartmoor Tweed Field Coat for Men from Cordings, Made in England

A Reader Question: How do you give, donate, or sell garments you no longer want?

Autumn Shirt Promotion at Cordings of Piccadilly

Going Minimalistic with my iPhone

New from Cordings - The Navy Portsmouth Peacoat for Men, Made in England

Preppy Style: A Modern Guide to Timeless Fashion.

A Reader Question About Bosie Starnight Blue Navy, and a Few Fair Isles...

A Reader Question: Your most used long overcoats?

Meg Carter Designs

PA: L.L. Bean Residency in SoHo

A Reader Question: Where do the prep school kids shop now?

Cresta Run from Le Tricoteur, Made in Guernsey

The Autumn Glow

Suggestions from A Reader : Khaki Pants for Women

A Reader Question: What to wear at a memorial service?

New from Bosie: Sorcha Yoke Fair Isle Women's Sweater in Baize Green

"When do you want to go to Connecticut?"

Some of My Autumn Photos Across New England

Reader Question: Boston Area Thrift Stores

A Few Things...

Ballynahinch Ladies' Tweed Shooting Jacket and Kildare Ladies Country Boot - from Dubarry of Ireland

The New Douglas Rollneck for Men from Cordings - Made in the British Isles

Stone Fences

Mercer Shirt Arrival. Towards the Perfect Shirt Wardrobe.

Almost Time to Bring Them Inside Again

A Pit Stop at the New York Times, mid 1960s - Photos by My Father

Pistou Soup Recipe

FT: Jack Carlson, the king of preppy, is taking on J Press

Reader Question: Smathers & Branson Frat-Bro Needlepoint-Belts?

PSA: "The Volvo V90 Cross Country Is Officially Dead"

The Day After

Arthur Beale Resupply

Still the Potting Shed

A Reader Question: Good places for lunch in Wiscasset?

Going Full Autumn

The Point of Pemaquid

Reader Question: "Must see" locations for visitors to New England this fall?

The Middle of August in Salt Water New England - A Few of my Photographs

The Joy of Dressing: Early Autumn Clothes in Late Summer Colors.

Making Peach Pies

Four Kinds of Scottish Knitwear You Should Own

A Reader Question: Favorite End of Summer Events?

The Joy of Dressing