Menswear Musings Recommends

Recommends—Cotton-Linen Dress Shirts, Neapolitan Jackets and a Fresco Suit

April 19, 2019

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Spier & Mackay had a good week. They dropped some new cotton-linen dress shirts for pre-order (meaning you just order now and they’ll ship it to you once they’re processed in the warehouse), some linen trousers, and finished the week with a spate of new Neapolitan-cut jackets and suits.

I’m all-in on cotton-linen dress shirts year-round. Two of my favorite shirts are of the blend, one an Oxford weave, the other a plain weave with wide stripes. Even in winter, I wear them, because I’m usually wearing a sportcoat on top. These have a higher percentage of linen, so they might be a little more louche than mine, but I’m still giving these a strong co-sign. In particular, check out the wide-stripe and pencil stripe variations.

The linen trousers look pretty good, though I don’t own any myself, preferring cotton-linen blends for giving the textural visual interest of linen but without the full-blown wrinkly crotch. That said, I do think linen trousers have their place for when you’re wearing fun Aloha or other fun printed shirts like Derek at Die, Workwear! wrote about and espadrilles or huaraches. In particular, scope out the cigar linen ones—there is a matching jacket coming in the next few weeks. Would make a great suit (it won’t be their Neapolitan cut like the tobacco linen that’s already out).

And finally, Neapolitan jackets in E.Thomas fabrics, and a navy fresco suit. I like them all, though my favorite of the jackets is the faded gun club.

Keep an eye on the New Arrivals page, as they are continuing to drop new arrivals fairly regularly, with more to come.

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