Tag: menswear

  • Magazine of the Week

    Welcome back to our weekly show-off page! This week’s title is a recent addition from a gift: Japanese magazines are really interesting because of the ways they reinterpret American pop culture in a completely different way.  This is one of several we subscribe to.  As you can see, this is focused on casual footwear. I…

  • Magazine of the Week

    Welcome back to Magazine of the Week! We would like to congratulate Esquire for publishing their 1000th issue!  And for being the premier voice of menswear style in America since 1933. Esquire began publishing in 1933, but was only distributed “to the trade” in men’s haberdashery (a.k.a. “furnishings” i.e. shirts, ties, and other underpinnings) shops. …

  • Magazine of the Week

    This week we have an oldie but a goodie.  From the streets of Manhattan, here is the downtown magazine that introduced Bill Cunningham to the fashionista world.  The library has a complete run of this title. Although it was converted to a menswear magazine in the late 1990s, it continues to be a fashionable alternative…