Ezra Paul Men's Clothing Blog — canvas

The last several blog posts have focused on jacket construction – this time I’m concentrating on garment care, since the two are intrinsically connected when it comes to longevity. Garment care is multifaceted, but the largest issues I encounter surround a general misunderstanding of dry cleaning – particularly why a garment should be cleaned. What is dry cleaning and why should I have a garment professionally cleaned? To understand why, it is important to understand what dry cleaning is exactly. Most people know that woolen goods generally can’t be laundered or dried. Tumbling in water will destroy the guts of a...

If you've been following this blog, you'll remember that I have been deconstructing suits at various price points to show how they are made. So far I’ve examined a $500 Jos. A. Bank suit and a $1,500 Z Zegna suit. This week we are taking a big jump in price to a $4,000 Tom Ford suit: As the former creative director for Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, Ford is one of the most prominent and influential designers of the 21st century thus far. His suits and sport coats are generally designed with a heavily structured shoulder and he was an...

This is the second in a running blog series on the construction of suits at various price-points. In the last post, I dissected a Jos. A. Bank suit at $500 and exposed its innards. Too keep this post brief, I am not going to delve into the same detail that I did in the previous post, so if you are yearning for more info, please refer back to that one. For this week's edition, I took apart a $1,500 Z Zegna suit to find out what's going on inside. Z Zegna is a slimmer and less expensive line from parent company Ermenegildo...

This is the first post in a series where I will cut open and deconstruct suits at various price points to display their guts and discuss what's going on inside. With most articles of clothing, the quality is fairly easy to ascertain just by handling the garment. Suits and sport coats, however, require a layer between the fabric and the lining and there are several different methods for creating this "skeleton" of sorts. Broadly speaking, the price of a suit is based on a few basic elements: Fabric - The wholesale price of a yard of fabric varies dramatically. It may...