Issue #390 | Friends Don’t Let Friends Wear Chore Coats

Friends Don’t Let Friends Wear Chore Coats

Mr. hot take is at it again. Noah Johnson has declared in-person shopping an embarrassing act, bemoaned tennis’s popularity for ruining on-court style, and now, has had enough with the guest that always shows up first to the fall party: the chore coat. “My sage advice is to ditch it entirely. Just give it a rest. I’ve seen too many, and too many people rely on it to represent the entirety of their personal style,” Johnson writes. (He might have a point about that last part.) But can we really just move on from one of the hardest working pieces in the modern wardrobe?

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The Best Jeans Are Custom: 5 Made-to-Measure Denim Programs Our Editors Tested and Reviewed

Would you spend a little more on denim—say, in the four to five hundred range, or as much as $2,000—knowing it’d probably be the last pair you’d ever need to buy? That price tag is a lot to stomach, we know, considering a good pair can be had for around $200, and sometimes less. But, as tested by Robb Report’s editors, these five made-to-measure denim programs from North Carolina to England promise a great pair that will wear as naturally as your own fingerprints. Here’s where to start.

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Broadway & Sons: A Sunny Afternoon in Stockholm

What makes for a vintage shop so good you’d be willing to make a pilgrimage to it? For one secondhand fanatic, it was a seemingly endless supply of well-curated western clothes and workwear: Old-stock Carhartt, Levi’s—you name it. Swedish shop Broadway & Sons has substantial connections with suppliers, which allows them to store heaps of goods—like, tens of thousands of pieces—that the shop can pull out as needed. Chances are, you’re gonna find something you like. Here’s what this writer found.

Permanent Style

Watches Are Only Getting Thinner. The Apple Watch Wants to Keep Up.

Until recently, Bulgari held the record for the world’s thinnest mechanical watch, the 1.7-millimeter-thick Octo Finissimo Ultra Mark II. Last week at the Geneva Watch Days fair, one independent Russian watchmaker claimed the record with the ThinKing, a prototype that clocks in at a slight 1.65 millimeters. While the new Apple Watch is in an entirely different weight class, it, too, is slimming down. In fact, it has a whole new look, reports Wired. Here’s what to expect from the Apple Watch 10.

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