Is it a suit? Is it a broken suit with blazer and trousers? Is anything cocktail attire, as long as you have a cocktail in your hand while you’re wearing it? Well, not exactly.
LIFESTYLE
Our Top 5 Spring Summer 2016 Shirts
When the heat starts to beat, shirts are the way to get there. That doesn’t mean baggy cuts or short sleeves! Fortunately men seem to be looking for simple and clean designs, lightweight fabrics, and even slimmer fits. Here’s our list of 5 dress shirts every man should own this season. Directly from our Spring Summer […]
Top 5 Menswear Spring/Summer 2016 Trends
What will be on top once the temperatures will pick up? Have a first look at the 5 trends we expect to hit hard for this Spring/Summer season.
Back to work: Italia’s got business
The era of the uniform exclusively made of jacket and tie is over by now. There was a time in wich the “back to work” attire was composed by a double breasted suit combined with a white shirt , starched collar and a simple tie, fortunatly nowadays the concept of formality has become more easy. Young business […]
Designer Cufflinks – What cufflink are you?
Ça va sans dire that a man able to customize his outfits by choosing refined details, returns to others a more determined and self-confident idea of himself. In this sense, cufflinks have always been the quintessence of men’s jewellery, the distinguishing feature of most stylish looks. This little jewel combines the charm of luxury and the attention […]
Mens Dress Shirt Styles
It is certainly not a modern invention, and it has started to intrigue gentlemen since style icons like Gianni Agnelli (and now his grandson Lapo) showed the world that everyone could easily wear it stylishly. We are now used to see shirts combined in different outfits, for which it becomes extremely important to find the style that fits us better. Let’s start from […]
Shining shoes – The tricks of the trade
Have you ever heard the italian term Sciuscià? It’s a neapolitan (birthplace of this art) term that describes shoe shine job or shoeshiner, borned at the beginning of twentieth century. “Sciuscià” is also a famous and loved neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica, about the stories of shoe’s artists. This is an ancient art […]
How to wear a sports jacket
Italian tailoring has strongly influenced in the development of the today’s sport jacket: Italian tailors have chosen softer and lighter fabrics compared to English ones, using more striking colours and designs that have given the Italian sport jacket a strong international reputation. High Quality: In order to recognize a high quality sport jacket it is important to pay attention to some specific details: The shoulder: In a […]
“Always look at a man’s shoes, they will tell you a lot about him”.
An old saying goes: “Always look at a man’s shoes, they will tell you a lot about him”. The tenth and last article for Natural Gentleman is about the fascinating industry of the shoes. Just like for every other garment of a gentleman’s closet, also for the shoes a lot could be said and a […]
The vestigial organs
The word “elegance” comes from the Latin “eligere”, to select. Not by chance the true gentleman is often a connoisseur, meaning “someone able to choose”. Integral to choose is to know. Knowing what you are wearing and when to wear it can help the aspiring gentleman not only to succeed (or to fail, depending on […]