A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE: EVERYDAY ELEGANCE
With TRUNK
Enter summer 2019. The dog days. Rampant climate change and tropical humidity has seemingly rendered anything less lightweight than Pima cotton unwearable. ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ was wrong; the world will end in fire, not ice.
For the gentleman unconvinced by the lull of trends, Mats Klingberg’s TRUNK will already be a name entrenched in your sartorial vocabulary. Here’s a recap of your hot-weather solutions…
BREATHE EASY
Wool conjures up hand knits, chin-grazing necklines, and sweltering insulation. Note Ring Jacket’s ‘New Balloon’ suiting fabric, crafted in proprietary wool for beautiful, classic structure, twisted in a breezy open weave. Seek out unlined, soft blazers à la Barena and hopsack varieties from Lardini to complete winning formulas.
BLUR THE LINEN
Or, your Pavlovian response to ascending temperatures. Anything linen — Tomorrowland makes lovely pants from the cool-to-the-touch fabric; shirts in linen-cotton blends — is fair game for a dégagé kind of elegance in summer; its non-wrinkle-resistance properties one to be reveled in, not worked against. Fully commit to the material with a patterned linen-silk blend tie courtesy of Stefanobigi Milano.
Finally, come back to these pieces in exactly a year’s time. And again the next.
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