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Today on the He Spoke Style website, I’m helping

Today on the He Spoke Style website, I’m helping to answer the question of why one might choose a royal blue suit. Learn a little about my personal story — it was my first custom suit — below and click the link in bio for the full article.

It was at the very end of 2012 when I decided that I was finally going to make the commitment to dressing well and building a classic and versatile menswear wardrobe. I’d just finished reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs and became sort of fascinated with the idea of doing more with less in terms of clothing.

I didn’t necessarily want to do the uniform thing like Steve Jobs did so famously — though that did fuel one of the more interesting sartorial experiments I’ve ever undertaken — but I thought that by building a thoughtful and well-curated classic wardrobe, that I’d be able to get the most out of the money I planned to spend.

However, there was one issue I was wrestling with internally. I knew that I wanted to build a “classic” menswear wardrobe, but I didn’t want it to be “boring.” Not that there’s anything with “boring” style, as I’ve recently opined.

But this was a bit of a different era and I was just cutting my teeth on classic menswear. I wasn’t into Fashion but I wanted to be somewhat unique without falling into the trap that so many do when first starting out and making that most awful of men’s style mistakes. Well, I did end up doing a bit of that myself — nobody’s immune — but to borrow an extremely overused phrase during that era, I was basically looking to do something that was “classic with a twist.”

It’s easy to roll our collective eyes at that now but the spirit was that I wanted to dress in a classic way but put my own personal stamp on it. And by “personal stamp” I didn’t mean a contrasting color button hole, silly suit jacket lining, or “funky” socks.

No, it had to be much more subtle than that — a reflection of my personality and who I am authentically. I wanted a something that made just a bit of a bolder statement without going too far. I wanted something a little more modern than the traditional navy blue suit.

And I found what I was looking for in a royal blue suit.

Today on the He Spoke Style website, I’m sharing

Today on the He Spoke Style website, I’m sharing a capsule wardrobe designed specifically for summer. Well, a little more specific than that — summer, traveling, packing light, sstaying cool, and looking good. Click the link in bio for the full story!

Summer has never been my favorite season for class

Summer has never been my favorite season for classic men’s style. As someone who loves wearing suits, sport coats, and trousers, the nature of the season itself is kind of antithetical to that style of dress. Heat and humidity mix with tailoring about as well as oil does with water.

Sure, we can extoll the virtues of fabrics like cotton and linen, open weaves like hopsack and fresco, unlined jackets, and even legendary claims of SPF-like qualities of a certain fabric, but when push comes to shove, in certain sizzling summer situations I do find myself siding with some of my commenters who routinely complain whenever I post a tailored look during these months — “yeah, but, I guess it’s not as hot where you live as it is in [insert southern state here].”

I hear you. And for the record, if it’s like 100-degrees out, you’re most likely to find me in shorts and a t-shirt and not a suit. I know, clutch your pearls, people.

But there are certainly times when you really do need to wear a suit or sport coat and trousers during the summer, so when those occasions roll around, that’s when you want to reach for your cottons and linens and hopsacks and frescos.

And while tailoring and summer heat don’t necessarily go hand in hand, I’d also make the case that it’s very hard to dress elegantly in the summer as well. Hard, but not impossible.

In today’s post on the He Spoke Style website, I’ll share the story of this look, talk a bit about elegance, in general, and tell you why I think a cream linen suit is the easiest way to pull off that elusive summer elegance. Click the link in bio for the full story and to shop the look.