How Dunhill Became the Gentleman's One-Stop Shop
Alfred Dunhill inherited his father's saddlery in 1893 and pivoted toward motoring equipment: goggles, leather coats, picnic sets.
Daniel Hurst · 2025-09-03
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Alfred Dunhill inherited his father's saddlery in 1893 and pivoted toward motoring equipment: goggles, leather coats, picnic sets.
Daniel Hurst · 2025-09-03
King Charles II introduced the waistcoat on October 15, 1666, appearing at court in a long sleeved vest to establish soberer dress following the Great Plague.
Thomas Nakamura · 2025-09-03
The peacoat's name likely derives from the Dutch pijjekker, a coarse pilot cloth jacket worn by Dutch sailors.
Marcus Wei · 2025-09-02
The necktie's origin is military.
Catherine Avery · 2025-09-02
The Chelsea boot dates to 1851, when Queen Victoria's bootmaker J.
Thomas Nakamura · 2025-09-01
In 1932, Patek Philippe was struggling through the Depression and needed a product to reassert relevance.
Catherine Avery · 2025-09-01
The brogue's perforated patterns began as engineering, not ornament.
Sebastian Cole · 2025-08-31
Thierry Hermes opened a harness workshop in Paris in 1837, crafting bridles and saddles for European nobility.
Marcus Wei · 2025-08-31
In 1894, John Barbour opened a shop in South Shields selling oilskin jackets to fishermen who needed protection from the North Sea.
William Ashford · 2025-08-30
The penny loafer begins in Norway, where cobbler Nils Gregoriusson Tveranger developed a slip-on inspired by traditional fishermen's moccasins.
Catherine Avery · 2025-08-30
The fedora takes its name from an 1882 play by Victorien Sardou, in which Sarah Bernhardt wore a soft, centre-creased hat.
Oliver Ramsey · 2025-08-29
In 1917, as Renault FT-17 tanks rolled across the Western Front, Louis Cartier was sketching a wristwatch echoing their silhouette from above.
James Alderton · 2025-08-29
The cufflink emerged in the seventeenth century as shirt sleeves grew longer and more ornate.
James Alderton · 2025-08-28
Ralph Lauren was born Ralph Lifshitz in the Bronx in 1939, the son of Belarusian Jewish immigrants.
Catherine Avery · 2025-08-28
When First World War pilots climbed into open-cockpit biplanes at altitudes where temperatures plunged below minus thirty, survival depended on clothing.
William Ashford · 2025-08-27
On July 21, 1969, Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface wearing an Omega Speedmaster Professional, making it the first watch worn on the Moon.
Thomas Nakamura · 2025-08-27
When Nazareno Fonticoli and Gaetano Savini founded Brioni in Rome in 1945, Italy was still clearing rubble.
Daniel Hurst · 2025-08-26
Long before signatures carried legal weight, a pressed seal in hot wax authenticated treaties and papal bulls.
Oliver Ramsey · 2025-08-26
In 1905, a twenty-four-year-old Bavarian named Hans Wilsdorf arrived in London with an improbable conviction: that wristwatches, then dismissed as jewellery for women, could be made precise enough to rival any pocket chronometer.
Catherine Avery · 2025-08-25
Before the Oxford became the gold standard of formality, it was a half-boot worn by students at the University of Oxford in the early nineteenth century.
Marcus Wei · 2025-08-25