Every year or so, we’ll hear about how hard it is for short men to find good clothes, particularly suits. And those stories inevitably focus on the unofficial king of the short men’s stores, Beverly Hills-based Jimmy Au.

One of those stories came up in the Los Angeles Times this week under the headline, “Apparel stores for short men are getting harder to...

Today is the 99th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a tragedy that killed 146 garment workers and injured 70.

I happened to be walking through Washington Square Park yesterday evening after dinner when my girlfriend mentioned the anniversary of the famous fire, and that the building was nearby. I was surprised that it was still...

I ran across an anecdote in Advertising Age today that really threw me off: a digital publisher chastised a print publisher he met for lunch for showing up in a suit. Here’s the exchange, excerpted from Ad Age’s article by Nat Ives, Print Vets Looking to Go Digital Find Switch Difficult: A few months ago, a longtime print publisher exploring new employment...

I’m very pleased with the response to my neckwear blog from yesterday. Some of the responders were people I mentioned in the blog.

Greg Shugar, founder of TheTieBar.com, commented, adding that “our industry will continue to decline until we again create the demand for neckties.” He’s interested in (re)creating a neckwear trade group, and asks that anyone...

Amid all the canned wisdom that percolates during a recession, we hear a lot of contradictory predictions about neckwear: Guys won’t buy a new suit because it’s too expensive—they’ll update their wardrobes with new furnishings and Ties never change, so guys will raid the backs of their closets when they need to wear ties for interviews. We hear that men...