Claire's Picks
Discover what the Sartorial Man is wearing this season
Hand-picked fashion finds across every category
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Everything from everyday basics to show-stopping occasion wear, all in one place.
Accessories
Look we're going to be honest with you here. Most guys treat accessories like an afterthought they thought of while already halfway out the door and it shows. A watch shoved on at the last second with no consideration for whether it works with the outfit. A belt that's technically a belt but clearly came free with something years ago. The thing is accessories are where style actually gets interesting because they're the details that tell people you thought about this rather than just got dressed in the dark. We've learned this the hard way through years of wearing technically complete outfits that felt somehow unfinished. A well chosen pocket square can make a basic navy blazer look intentional. A decent watch on a simple outfit does more work than most people expect. None of this requires spending serious money or reading seventeen articles about capsule wardrobes. It just requires paying attention to the small things that most blokes quietly phone in every single day. That's what this section is about.
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Coats & Jackets
Outerwear is where British men get the most daily use from any single category in their wardrobe and also where we see the most consistent underinvestment relative to how much it matters. Your coat is the first and often only thing people see when you walk into a room and it's doing significant work on your behalf before you've said a word or removed a layer. We've gone through phases of treating outerwear as purely practical and phases of caring too much about it and the truth is somewhere in the middle. You need something that actually handles the weather because this is Britain and the weather has opinions. But you also need something that works with your actual wardrobe rather than just sitting on top of it looking unrelated to everything underneath. The pieces in this section cover the full range from lightweight layers for transitional days to proper coats for when the weather stops being polite about it.
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Footwear
Shoes tell people more about you than almost any other element of how you dress and we say this not to create anxiety but because it's genuinely useful information that most men either don't know or know and choose to ignore. The shoes you're wearing are the detail that gets noticed when everything else is working and remembered when something is wrong. We've watched guys undermine genuinely solid outfits with footwear that looked like an afterthought and we've watched simple outfits get elevated significantly by someone who clearly thought carefully about what was on their feet. The good news is that getting footwear right doesn't require a huge investment or an encyclopaedic knowledge of shoe construction. It requires paying attention to a few consistent principles about fit condition and appropriateness that make a significant difference to how everything above the ankle reads as well.
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Tops
Tops are the category where most men own the most pieces and think about them the least which is an interesting combination that produces a lot of wardrobes full of things that technically work but don't really do anything particularly well. We've been guilty of this ourselves. Accumulating t-shirts and shirts and jumpers without much strategy and then standing in front of a full wardrobe feeling like there's nothing to wear because nothing quite goes with anything else in a way that feels intentional. What we've learned over the years is that a smaller number of better pieces that work together is dramatically more useful than a large number of average ones that don't connect. Getting your core tops sorted in terms of quality fit and colour is the work that makes the rest of your wardrobe function better because everything else you wear is built around what's closest to your body.
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Trousers
Trousers are the foundation that everything above the waist is building on and getting them right in terms of fit and appropriateness for the occasion makes an enormous difference to how the whole outfit reads. We've made most of the trouser mistakes over the years. Jeans that were too long and piled up around the ankles. Chinos that were too slim and restricted movement in a way that made sitting down an event. Suit pants that had been hemmed by someone who'd apparently measured only one leg. The trouser fit conversation has also evolved significantly over the last few years as the consensus has moved away from very slim cuts toward something with more ease through the leg and that evolution has actually been a good thing for most men because more relaxed cuts tend to be more flattering across a wider range of body types. This section covers everything from weekend jeans to formal suit pants and everything that sits between them.
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