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To walk into St. Louis, Missouri’s Winslow’s Home is to step back in time. A general store owned and operated by Randy and Ann Sheehan Lipton, Winslow’s has fast become my home away from home.

“Hey, Merry Christmas.”
“Merry Christmas to you, sir.”
“Ryan, what do you know about Standard Style in Kansas City?”
“Nothing.”
That’s more-or-less how the conversation began on Christmas Eve of last year when I called Ryan Plett, creator and moderator of the Denim Debate.

I first met Seavees’ Steven Tiller this summer. Over the course of our chat, he told me about his first job working at Harold’s while in high school. He talked about all the preppy brands they carried. He mentioned Gitman Bros., but his eyes lit up with the mention of bleeding madras, “the real stuff, [...]

In the summer of 2008, I found my favorite pair of shoes, a used pair of cognac-colored tassel moccasins from Alden, buried in a giant L.L. Bean duffel at the Brooklyn Flea. I purchased them from my man Tutek for $30.00. I wore the hell out of them. When I found two gaping hole in [...]

One of my closest friends, actor Alex Beh, has a new short which he’s directed and co-written. The film also stars Leven Rambin, most recently seen on Grey’s Anatomy.

This week in New York Magazine, writer Amy Larocca profiled one of my heroes, Andy Spade and his wife, Kate. It is a fantastic read if you’re at all interested in turning your passion into your career, and being wildly — well, the fourth place kind of wildly (more on that in a bit) — [...]

Mr. Jay Brown of Jay Brown Stagecoaches
The photo journal of Tadd Myers’ cross country tour of American factories, A Portrait of the American Craftsman, is featured in this month’s issue of Spirit, the in-flight magazine of Southwest Airlines.

With the help of Fjällräven’s Andrea Westerlind Context Clothing’s Ryan Huber assembled a few friends on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula over the Super Bowl weekend for a competition of different kind, an ice fishing competition.

The people of Wisconsin live and die by this beautiful quote from English writer John Ruskin.
I pulled in to Madison on a snow-covered evening, late enough that the last of Context Clothing’s customers was just bundling up before heading home with a new pair of Momotaro jeans, but co-owner Ryan Huber was kind enough to [...]