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Vaughn Scribner
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- Style for the Ages: Innovation in America’s heritage
- May 6, 2013
- A huge trend in men’s fashion today is what I’ll call the “American Heritage Movement.” Tapping into Americans’ obsession with all things vintage, fashion designers are increasingly harking back to a “better” time in American history when things were supposedly just made better.
- Style for the Ages: Smart shopping
- April 1, 2013
- It’s the oldest cliché in the book: Men hate shopping.
- Style for the Ages: The wool overcoat, a classic that has hardly changed
- March 4, 2013
- There are small, relatively inexpensive changes you can make to your wool coat to not only make it unique, but also to put it on par with much more expensive designer coats.
- Style for the Ages: Historical Threads, Barbour waxed cotton jacket
- February 4, 2013
- Our general love for all things Brit has most definitely crossed over to the fashion world.
- Style for the Ages: Braving the winter in style
- January 7, 2013
- I find that January is often a time when many men abandon fashion for function. But bitter-cold weather shouldn’t defeat your fashion sense — if you choose your classic pieces wisely, they should maintain their usefulness through the chilliest of days.
- Style for the Ages: Seek timeless, quality, practical gifts
- December 3, 2012
- Everywhere we turn, society tells us to buy, buy, buy, and that quantity will always trump quality. It hasn’t always been this way.
- Style for the Ages: Take a hint from history to get the most out of clothes
- November 5, 2012
- With the dragging economy and another winter on its way, perhaps you can save some money this season by repairing and upgrading clothes you already own rather than rushing out to spend more money on clothes you probably don’t need. We don’t live in 18th century Boston, but that doesn’t mean we can’t take some fashion advice from our forefathers.
- Style for the Ages: The layers of fall
- October 1, 2012
- It’s finally fall: Football games. Changing leaves. Pumpkins. You get the picture. Fall also brings chilly weather, though, which brings me to the fashion part of this column — layering.
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