The menswear brands we follow on Instagram agreed on two things this week: brown is the colour of the season, and jackets are getting softer.
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News from the world of tailoring, cloth and menswear.
Country Road Group pulls out of 100 spaces in David Jones
One of Australia’s biggest fashion groups is taking its brands out of more than a third of its spaces inside the country’s best-known department store.
Uniqlo’s owner posts a record ¥743 billion profit
Fast Retailing grew its operating profit by 32 per cent this year. Its success shows that simple, well-made basics are still what many people want.
“Because we’re tired”: Brittons closes after 79 years
A family menswear store in South Carolina will close on Christmas Eve after nearly eight decades, and the owners gave the most honest reason you will ever hear.
New stores for Men’s Wearhouse in Oregon and Suit Direct in Basingstoke
While famous names close, two menswear chains are still opening shops, one on each side of the Atlantic.
The Get Carter suit is back: Michael Caine’s grey flannel, remade
The grey flannel suit Michael Caine wore in the 1971 film Get Carter has been remade from tailor Douglas Hayward’s archive, and it is on sale at just one shop in London.
Winter cloth: Standeven’s new flannels and a vicuña suit that takes 30 animals
A Yorkshire cloth merchant refreshes its classic flannel book for winter, while Dormeuil shows a suiting so rare that a single suit needs the fleece of about 30 vicuñas.
Harvey Nichols leaves Birmingham as Frasers redraws the map
Birmingham loses its Harvey Nichols in January, and two more stores change their name. The British department store is shrinking to just three shops.
