The 1980s gave menswear some of its loudest ideas: neon windbreakers, pastel suits, acid-wash denim, studded leather and tracksuits worn as everyday clothes. Some of it was ridiculous. A surprising amount of it still looks good today. Whether you need an outfit for an 80s theme party or want a bit of retro flavour in…

Baggy jeans are back in almost every wardrobe, from teenagers heading to school to men in their forties who have finally retired their skinny fits. The catch is that loose denim can look either deliberate and cool or like you borrowed your older brother’s trousers, and the difference usually comes down to the top, the…

Casual dress sits in the space most men find hardest to get right. It’s dressier than jeans and a T-shirt, more relaxed than a suit, and the rules shift depending on whether you’re heading to the office, a dinner, or a summer wedding. The good news is that it runs on a small set of…

A formal cowboy outfit takes the structure of a suit or sport coat and adds Western details: leather boots, a yoke or snap-front shirt, a bolo tie, a vest, or a hat. Done well, it looks as dressed-up as any wedding suit, just with roots in ranch country instead of the city. The hard part…

A black polo is one of the most useful shirts a man can own. It has the collar and buttons of a smart shirt and the comfort of a t-shirt, and the black colour makes it look sharper than almost any other polo. That means one shirt can stretch across very different outfits: chinos for…

Denim Bermuda shorts sit in a useful middle ground. They’re longer and more structured than regular jean shorts, landing around the knee, so they read more grown-up than short cutoffs while still being a proper warm-weather piece. The trouble is that the same pair can look sharp or sloppy depending on what you put with…

Business casual sits between a suit and what you’d wear on the weekend. In practice, it usually means trousers or chinos, a collared shirt or smart knit, and leather shoes, with a blazer when the day calls for it and no tie. The confusing part is that every office reads it a little differently. A…

Birkenstocks went from “dad shoe” to genuinely one of the most versatile things in a man’s closet, and it happened faster than most trends do. Part of that is the shoe itself, it’s just comfortable in a way sneakers often aren’t, mostly thanks to the contoured cork-and-latex footbed that molds to your foot over time…