“Custom” is one of those menswear buzzwords that seems to have changed meaning while we weren’t looking. It used to be that “custom” meant, well, custom— created to your specifications, for your life, for your body. From the spread of a shirt collar to the buttons at the wrists, “custom” meant you were the architect of your aesthetic. But somewhere along the way, it (like so many other entries in the Merriam-Webster) got muddled up

One hundred years is a long time. Only sixty years ago, the first hard drive was invented--and it had the capacity of a small word document. Case in point, a lot can change in one hundred years. But a lot can stay the same, too.

Ah, the holiday party dress code debacle. Second only to determining what kind of booze to bring to a particular bash, deciding what to wear before you click "RSVP" is, well, fraught. 

"Dressed to kill." "Murdered out." Why is it that some of our best phrases for describing great clothes seem to be flirting with danger? 

It may be that the Brits come to mind first when you think of Gin (the birth of the Gin & Tonic is deeply nestled in the history of the British Empire's use of tonic as an anti-malarial, after all, but that's another story). But as with most things, Scotland has a way of taking a good thing and making it...well, better.

A quick preface: we're not ones to shy away from a little hard work. When it's time to entertain, hors d'oeuvres are served; playlists are made; cocktails get mixed. It's not that we're opposed to standing at the bar cart juicing, shaking and stirring until everybody's satisfied. But. Summertime unlocks in us a sort of relaxed approach to entertaining.