Threads for Thought: Wide Legged Pants

For years now, the trend in men's pants has gotten slimmer and more tapered, to the point where there's no more cloth to take away. Now the only means of innovation is to widen things up.

As the seasons go through there little chronological progression through the decades, they reach the late 60's and 70's. Among all the styles that sprung from the groovy days, one that spanned across all was the wide bottom pant; it went so perfectly with those platform shoes. But now they are being more refined, in a way that still maintains the flattering nature of a slimmer fit trouser while adding a nonchalance and an airy nature to any look. Because they are wide-bottomed, the fit is crucial, with the waist and seat needing to be absolutely perfect and the leg falling naturally straight, otherwise its just another pair of un-tailored pants.

Check in tomorrow for this week's edition of Friday Faux Pas and next Thursday for another piece that deserves your consideration!

Wardrobe Essentials: A Corduroy Suit

Since the average man is expanding his horizons of comfortability with new style, so have designers in being able to produce great new items that further push these horizons. Sport coats made of sweater fabrics, shirts in lightweight suede, to suiting fabrics combined with leather on a classic pair of shoes.

Now, corduroy isn't a very radical fabric option; its one of the best cold weather fabrics out their and an excuse to wear cotton during the colder months, but it's usually not reserved for a suit. Say no more, as the whole menswear spectrum is embracing the corduroy suit, from luxury boutiques to The Gap! The most exciting part of it all are the range of colors that are out there, which allows for more adventurous tones than the run of the mill tan.

To that point, one of the greatest qualities of corduroy is the effect it has on colors, adding a luxurious depth that brings a dull shade to life while elevating the brighter ones. Fit is key, as it is with any suit, but corduroy calls for a more tailored fit to take down any heft that the fabric innately has. One way to mitigate this characteristic is to get a fine wale cord, taking the suit from 70's IBM cube warrior to 21st Century neophyte.

Faconnable: $1525

Brooks Brothers: $1298

Burberry: $1290 (Jacket $995 & Pants $295)

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Tech Tuesday: Le Labo Solid Cologne

It's understandable that after going through the search for a fragrance, the average man tends to stick with the winning spritz for a long time. Not much has changed in the way of fragrances, and for that matter cologne, since the noses started putting the fancy smell inside the fancier bottles. But before all these sprays and aerosols, men and women carried around perfume boxes that essentially over powered their body odor. Le Labo is a perfume boutique in New York City that offers a full range of scents and conventional applicators, but their latest innovation, solid perfume. Using a combination of wax and oils, they have managed to neatly package their fragrances in a neat metal, on-the-go packaging. Just apply the scent as if it were a stick of deodorant or chapstick, and smelling like a million bucks in no time.

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