The Importance of Whimsy and Playing In Your Clothes

This is a recap-ish of the latest podcast episode. You can listen to the episode below before or after you read. That’s because I tend to expand on topics from the pod as well as straight-up write about things that we did not discuss. The choice is yours in how you want to proceed! I wasn’t expecting to write an article about Whimsy, but here we are. Honestly, the more you think about it, it makes sense for me to finally talk about— and see just how much its applied throughout my entire approach to menswear. The term just feels so pertinent, so central to everything that I do, even if I never used it myself. After all, during one of the days it took to write this article, I typed this while wearing a sawtooth and cowboy boots…and on another day, a cape. Go figure! The idea behind this first came up when I was having a conversation with some mutuals about what it meant to be “into menswear”. Most of them said something related to how it’s about finding cool pieces (some of them were…