Product Review: Linjer Soft Briefcase

A long overdue review of a great briefcase. See the rest - with lots of images - here: http://fromsqualortoballer.com/linjer-soft-briefcase-review/

Pleats and Thank You

I’m experimenting with pleats again after a long, pleatless hiatus. What are your thoughts on pleats?

Full article here: http://fromsqualortoballer.com/pleats-on-trousers/

Sew Many Buttons

My next button-swapping project - read the article here: http://fromsqualortoballer.com/replace-horn-buttons-britex-eidos/

A Tale of Two Cities

My visits to the Carmina stores in Barcelona and Paris - read the rest here: http://fromsqualortoballer.com/carmina-paris-barcelona/

Coming Up: Gilt City Warehouse Sale in San Francisco

A quick heads up to the Bay Area readers - Gilt City is having their warehouse sale in downtown SF this Thursday through Saturday, 12/3 - 12/5. You can see the details at the link above. 

A Holiday Gift Guide for the Menswear-Inclined: 2015

Here it is, just in time for Black Friday! This is my third annual gift guide, and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing it.

Fine Fall Footwear: the Allen Edmonds MacNeil 2.0

(tl;dr: click here and check out the new site)

When I started this blog over three years ago I chose to host it on Tumblr, because that’s where the action was. Tumblr’s #menswear tag was a beacon of light in the menswear world, and most of the best content was created there. Much of that still continues, albeit to a lesser degree - many of my favorite menswear blogs are still on Tumblr.

Since then, though, I’ve slowly realized that Tumblr’s “blogging lite” format is not ideal for what I want to do with this site. I want to write posts full of information and the occasional rambling diatribe, not just post pictures to be reblogged. I’ve found that my blog would be much better served in a format that is more oriented toward heavy content and not just images. For that reason, I’ve moved fromsqualortoballer.com off of Tumblr and onto Wordpress.

What does this mean for you?

• If you read my blog through the tumblr dashboard, nothing will really change. You’ll still see an image and title for each of my posts with a link to the full article, like before.
• If you read my blog at fromsqualortoballer.com, your reading experience will be greatly improved. That’s about it.
• Any links you used from my blog should automatically redirect to the new site, so there should be no problems.
• All the original content will still be available at fromsqualortoballer.tumblr.com if you need to access it for some reason. That said, all the best content has been migrated to the new site so this shouldn’t be necessary.
• The overall experience will be 1000x better. The platform will be much more robust, it will be easier to navigate through the content, the search bar will work really well, it will be easier to find my site on search engines, and much more.

Over the next couple of weeks there will still be some small tweaks, like migrating over all the original blog’s comments to the new site and so forth, but the bulk of the work is completed and everything should be working. If you see any bugs or errors, please let me know at fromsqualortoballer@gmail.com.

So what are you waiting for? Check out the new site here. 

That’s everything! Thanks to NW for her help making this migration possible, and thanks to all of you for reading.

What I Wore - November in Paris

While I was in Paris last week I decided to bust out this “new” suit - it’s something I commissioned from Beckett & Robb about a year ago, but due to some delays and errors from the factory I didn’t receive it until the summer. Now that the weather is finally getting cooler I’m hoping I’ll have more chances to wear it!

I designed this suit as my version of the famed “BlazerSuit” that is often discussed on Styleforum. In other words, it’s a suit that is meant to be somewhat convertible into a sole blazer. By using brown horn buttons and a mid-weight nailhead flannel, I basically put together the Fall/Winter version of my ideal navy blazer (also from Beckett & Robb) and added trousers. An ideal suit for traveling, if you ask me. 

Suit - Beckett & Robb | Shirt - Proper Cloth | Tie - Conrad Wu | Pocket Square - Kent Wang | Shoes - Allen Edmonds