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by Beau H.

The Friday Find: The Taylor Stitch Bourbon Corduroy Ojai Jacket Is Handsome Fall Style Personified

Best chore jackets for men.

Now that we’re past the first day of fall — always a momentous time on my own personal calendar for a number of reasons — it’s high time you kicked things into high gear as far as your array of autumn style essentials is concerned.

The best menswear for fall expertly balances rugged appeal with versatility, rich texture and even seasonal, carefully considered colorways — as luck would have it, the Taylor Stitch Ojai Jacket checks each of those boxes in a handsome silhouette that nods in expert fashion to iconic French chore coats.

And it’s all thanks to the good folks at Taylor Stitch, a brand I’ve admired for a decade and one that has some serious chops as far as the variety of its classic-meets-modern menswear rotation.

The Taylor Stitch Ojai Jacket is every bit as much of a brand staple for the San Francisco outfitter as its expertly crafted Taylor Stitch Jack Shirt, a modern version of the timeless Oxford shirt. Its array of sturdy cotton tees, the Heavy Bag Henley, its two different cuts of chinos and of course, the utterly cool Taylor Stitch Moto Jacket are also heavy hitters, to be sure.

And while it’s a high bar to clear, the casually roguish stylings of the Taylor Stitch Ojai Jacket might just be the best-suited of the bunch for fall, particularly in eye-catching, richly crafted organic cotton corduroy in a mighty tempting shade of Bourbon.

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With top and side-entry hip patch pockets and a chest patch pocket for your everyday carry, plus secure ring-back buttons, this jacket is as functional at the workshop or drafting table as it is stylish enough for sipping on a speakeasy Old Fashioned.

Whether layered over a rugged organic cotton henley or worn atop a Taylor Stitch chambray shirt for high-low style, this is a surefire seasonal winner — and an expert Friday Find pick, if I do say so myself. Good luck layering out there this fall, my friends.

by Beau H.

The Friday Find: The PANZERA Flieger 45G Is Made For Elite Pilots (And Your Own Watch Rotation)

Panzera Flieger 45G watch review.

In my many freelance writing pursuits, I’m very fortunate every day and every week to stumble upon some of the coolest gear, menswear and products (period!) on the market, and across a wide variety of categories. That’s an understatement, I should think!

And while I certainly consider myself something of a watch buff as I cover some of the very best watches for men, I hadn’t yet discovered the wonders of Australian-made watch company PANZERA. Talk about a brand that’s about to get a whole lot more well-known: The company was recently tapped by the United States Air Force’s elite Aggressor Squadron to deliver a custom, pilot-approved timepiece.

And while that resulting timepiece is only available to USAF pilots, I had the chance to check out another stellar PANZERA watch as of late, as you might have seen on my Instagram — the results are in, and the PANZERA Flieger 45G is simply one of the coolest watches I’ve had the pleasure of trying lately.

Don’t get it twisted: While handsome and stylish on the surface, this pilot’s watch is every bit as functional as it is formidable, and that’s the kind of piece we look to spotlight in our weekly Friday Find series (view past entries here).

With customizable options aplenty (select from two case and three dial color options), plus ten strap options, the combinations are nearly endless. I opted for a black dial, brown leather and silver case build, but the real story here when it comes to the PANZERA Flieger 45G is the burly build, the handsome and thick leather strap and its GMT functionality.

Equally appreciated in my experience to date with the rugged and yet versatile PANZERA Flieger 45G is the trio-date window, with today’s date marked at the red arrow — an eye-catching design detail that sets it apart from the pack. I also appreciate the functional inner bezel for easy time-zone tracking at a glance, while its dial and hands are topped by scratch-proof sapphire and adorned with Super LumiNova luminous markings.

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For a bit under $1K, this striking pilot’s watch is a wrist game upgrade worth making: Functional, fashionable without being too flashy, and utterly dependable in my experience to date. And while it’s not quite as souped-up as the timepiece used by real-life pilots, the dependable and hard-working PANZERA Flieger 45G is the next best thing — take that to the bank, and to your watch collection, my friends.

by Beau H.

The Friday Find: There’s Never Been a Better Time to Buy the Taylor Stitch Moto Jacket Ahead of the Fall Season

Today’s Friday Find — where we kick off the weekend with a quick look at a standout must-buy you might not have known about yet — perhaps isn’t quite as much an unearthing of a rare gem as it is a look at a handsome, stellar piece of exceptional outerwear from a company doing things the right way. Of course, if you read this Brooklyn style blog, you happen to know that company as San Francisco’s own Taylor Stitch.

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Yes, my friends, you very well might have seen the Taylor Stitch Moto Jacket on the blog here over the years (I first covered it in my series of Taylor Stitch reviews a decade ago, in fact!), and it’s back once more — and there are plenty of reasons to invest in one of the very best jackets for men right now.

The Taylor Stitch Moto Jacket has plenty going for it — it just might be one of the best leather jackets on the market, with the pedigree and construction (and style points!) to match.

In addition to utterly classic, well-fitting and remarkably well-made daily essentials like the Taylor Stitch Jack Shirt (a personal favorite in my own style rotation), the Taylor Stitch Moto Jacket is an investment worth the extra cash (it’ll run you $1,248 this year in one of three incredibly well-crafted shades of rich ready-to-break-in steerhide leather).

Yet again, the good folks at Taylor Stitch took great care in working with San Fran’s own Golden Bear — a heritage jacket maker with a remarkable pedigree, and that shows in detailed fashion thanks to the use of hard-wearing yet supple chrome-tanned, drum-dyed 3.5-oz. full-grain steerhide.

Built out with Thinsulate insulation for added warmth, not to mention a custom YKK antique brass zipper, it’s clear that one of my favorite menswear brands once again went the extra mile to deliver one of the best jackets for men in every stitch.

The hidden snap collar features eye-catching zig-zag stitching on its underside (turn it up for an extra dash of “classic cool”), while its pockets are lined with flannel — and the fit, as ever, is trim and cut for rugged layering perfection. It certainly won’t be the last time you hear about the Taylor Stitch Moto Jacket, as I tend to so often say this time of year.

by Beau H.

The Friday Find: 3sixteen’s Classic Straight Selvedge Jeans Are some of the Finest On the Market

Selvedge denim can seem like a bit much if you haven’t explored the world of unwashed denim made from thick cotton fabric. There’s an entire community out there that goes wild for selvedge denim, often fashioned from rich denim fabric hailing from Japan. And since this is the Friday Find, where we dive into one standout item that might have flown under your radar, let’s take a look at 3sixteen, shall we?

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For those not familiar, 3sixteen’s New York City roots are rather uncanny: The brand produces some of the best jeans for men with an intensity and quality that’s hard to find in the big city at times (you might more often find it out West, as in Los Angeles, a city known for its denim and durable production methods).

But that means each wearing experience featuring 3sixteen selvedge denim is remarkable and rather special, at least in my experience.

Its carefully curated lineup of some of the finest selvedge denim on the market is hard to beat, including the 3sixteen CS-101X, a classic pair of straight-leg selvedge that will mold to your body, develop beautiful fades and wear as reliably with a thermal henley as with an Oxford shirt and a lightweight navy cotton blazer. How’s that for jeans you can really count on?

The adage that they don’t make ’em like they used to doesn’t quite apply to durable denim like the 3sixteen CS-101X, which uses a custom and multi-season raw 12oz selvedge denim from Japan’s Kuroki Mills. The end result is a beautifully rich shade of blue with all the classic selvedge detailing you might want, including a vintage-inspired fit that features a slight taper and a higher rise. Utterly classic is a phrase that comes to mind with the hard-wearing, stylish and positively versatile 3sixteen CS-101X.

And because selvedge denim can feel intimidating at first, with its stiff wash and deep blue, unfaded finish, a pair with a classic straight-leg cut like the 3sixteen CS-101X can make them feel more approachable, more wearable, more dependable.

Those qualities make them more like your favorite pair of garment-washed, lovingly faded jeans — which are also an important part of a man’s everyday casual wardrobe, at least in my experience.

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In fact, these 3sixteen men’s jeans are even given a light rinse to ease up on the stiffness that can sometimes follow with the best selvedge jeans for men — not bad at all, right? Finished with a tan roughout leather back hip patch and branded gunmetal YKK rivets, each and every detail has been properly accounted for with this exceptional pair.

Suffice to say, if you’ve been searching for a way to get into selvedge denim ahead of fall, then I’d wager the 3sixteen CS-101X are as fine an introduction to the category as any.

by Beau H.

The Friday Find: Triple Aught Design Intercept PD Tapered Jeans – Your New Must-Have Pair

Welcome back to the latest and greatest Friday Find as we head into Labor Day weekend — it’s a crowded market out there in terms of the best menswear deals, which we’ll take a look at Sunday in our Sunday Sale series. But for now, let’s keep it simple and dive into the Friday Find, where I (not unlike other days on this blog!) tell you about one stellar product to just. Buy. Now.

And in a landscape where the best American-made menswear is hard to come by at times, it’s worth taking a look at Triple Aught Design and the brand’s positively stellar Triple Aught Design Intercept PD Tapered Jeans.

While the name might be a handful, these remarkably well-built jeans are about as rugged and functional as it gets — the kind of jeans you can wear comfortably for travel, for outdoor pursuits and of course, for casually stylish fall outings.

Boasting a fit that’s more tapered than other pairs of Triple Aught Design pants (if you’ve had the chance to try the adventure-minded San Francisco brand), the Triple Aught Design Intercept PD Tapered Jeans are made from thick yet supple Mt. Vernon raw denim and finished with double and triple-needle top stitching in handsome contrasting gold thread.

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Angled hand pockets are offset by two coin pockets for small items in your everyday carry, while the Triple Aught Design Intercept PD Tapered Jeans feature durable, custom hardware and a slim, tailored fit (they wear well with everything from chukka boots to high-top sneakers and even moc toe boots, in my experience). They’ve already begun to develop a handsome patina all their own, and here’s the real kicker: The Triple Aught Design Intercept PD Tapered Jeans are on sale right now for about 20 percent off. That’s your new favorite pair of blue jeans, all sorted out nicely.

by Beau H.

The Friday Find: Flint and Tinder’s Denim Trucker Jacket is A Perfect Take on a Timeless Classic

Best denim jackets for men.

As I often like to say when it comes to this new weekly series of stylish weekend finds, well, it’s sometimes best to just keep it simple: To focus on the classics as far as menswear essentials are concerned, and to focus on selections that can suit you well now and on into the cooler fall months ahead.

One of the best denim jackets for men fits the bill quite handsomely in that regard, particularly if it’s made by one of the very best online menswear stores for stylish fellas (that includes you and me both!) — and that store, as you well know if you read this New York City style blog, happens to be Huckberry.

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And so, let’s dial into the Flint and Tinder Denim Trucker Jacket, a tasteful swerve from Flint and Tinder’s customary lineup of the best waxed trucker jackets around.

As you’ll see with the richly crafted, hard-wearing Flint and Tinder Denim Trucker Jacket, it boasts the same fabled silhouette as the iconic waxed trucker jacket from which it takes its many style cues. And the Flint and Tinder Denim Trucker Jacket is all the better for it, using “sturdy 12.75oz Cone Mills rigid denim,” as Huckberry notes, along with crisp details like slanted chest pockets with rounded, eye-catching flaps.

The handsome and expertly fashioned Flint and Tinder Denim Trucker Jacket also happens to be double-stitched and finished with vertical stitching across the body, and your new favorite denim jacket also features adjustable waist side tabs.

Beyond those crisp and classic details, the hard-working Flint and Tinder Denim Trucker Jacket is unlined for easy layering as we move from summer into fall — the list of dependable benefits and serious style points goes on (and on, and on!) but for now, you just might have to discover the beauty and wearability of the Flint and Tinder Denim Trucker Jacket for yourself. Happy Friday, my friends — here’s to the weekend, and here’s to plenty of value and style from Huckberry!

by Beau H.

The Friday Find: The Halfday Garment Duffel Bag is a Travel Gamechanger for the Frequent Flyer

As we roll into another summer weekend, let’s take a quick-hit look at one stellar, standout product that’ll assuredly make your life that much easier, more efficient, more stylish and more seamless — that’s the name of the game with our new Friday Find series, after all.

And as a frequent flyer in this #FreelanceLife (as you might have seen on my Instagram!), I’m always on the lookout for travel hacks that deliver a more seamless flying experience, particularly when it comes to something like the best duffle bags for men (my preferred way to pack for trips ranging from a long weekend to a 10-day Caribbean jaunt).

And the Halfday Garment Duffle might be one of the best travel hacks I’ve seen — and used! — yet.

As you might have read during my trips to Italy and France earlier this year — again, trips for which I’m impossibly grateful! — I tend to never travel far without my Halfday Garment Duffle. I

t zips open into a garment bag to hold one of the best blazers for men or your favorite suit, and new-and-improved versions even boast mesh pockets and storage solutions once unzipped. It sounds simple enough on the surface, but it’s assuredly changed the way I travel — and then some!

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The Halfday Garment Duffle also boasts handy shoe storage pockets, a slew of exterior pockets and plenty of sturdy fabrication to resist scuffs, abrasion, water and wind. The Halfday Garment Duffle is my favorite travel bag, period, offering a variety of sizing options for the modern man on the go, including a dependable 45L Halfday Garment Duffle size.

It comes in a wide array of stylish colors to suit every taste, the Halfday Garment Duffle is easily TSA-approved, and it carries plenty easily as I crisscross the globe covering a wide array of the best gear for guys.

How can it get better than that? Ahead of the fall travel season, make sure you’re packing up and zipping up the handsome, hard-wearing and sturdy Halfday Garment Duffle — it’s the best travel bag on the market for guys (and gals!), folks.

by Beau H.

The Friday Find: Devium’s Lombard Striped Short-Sleeve Shirt is a Retro Classic Made Modern

It’s something we tend to talk a lot about here on this Brooklyn style blog: The idea that they don’t make ’em like they used to (at least in the case of USA-made menswear). So, when a brand really goes the extra mile, stepping up and delivering pleasing style in exceptionally well-crafted fashion, consider it a proper treat for your rotation of menswear essentials, particularly as far as your warm-weather shirting rotation is concerned. .

And thus, for the third Friday in a row, this Friday Find — a series focused on quick-hit takes on one stylish piece of mennswear — will spotlight an essential you’ve still got time to rock in the weeks ahead. In fact, it’s a piece I’m wearing as I type, with softness, style and utility in spades.

You see, the Devium USA Lombard Striped Short-Sleeve Shirt takes the on-trend camp collar shirt, nods to the past and then retools it in American-made, utterly high-quality fashion. The soft, supple yet durable construction of the Devium USA Lombard Striped Short-Sleeve Shirt is a nice style swerve considering its old-school roots.

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At least in my experience, the design of the camp collar shirt calls to mind something your grandfather might have worn in an auto garage back in the day, and yet the Devium USA Lombard Striped Short-Sleeve Shirt features garment-washed organic cotton chambray in a flattering striped design.

It’s expertly crafted right here in the States (SoCal, to be specific), and available in both Midnight and Pistachio — options aplenty exist for the lover of USA-made menswear, yourself very much included. Consider scooping up this stylish short-sleeve shirt for the final stretch of summer, my friends.

by Beau H.

The Friday Find: Quoddy’s USA-Made Rover Penny Loafers Are As Expertly Crafted as It Gets

Last week on this Brooklyn style blog — your favorite menswear blog on the market, right??– we started a new series, a quick-hit guide of sorts to one must-buy product to get your weekend rolling in fine fashion.

I’m often scouring the market for the coolest finds around — from footwear to shirting, watches, everyday carry gear and more — and some selections are simply too good to pass up. Think of these selections as a prime exercise in buying less, but buying better — or rather, in getting down to the point and getting you out into the world this weekend, especially when a retailer like Huckberry offers up a newly restocked, fresh pair of footwear ideal for summer and early fall weekends aplenty.

So, in quick-hit form, let’s look at some of the coolest and most finely crafted men’s loafers on the market, shall we? That’d be the Quoddy Rover USA-Made Penny Loafers, the pinnacle of old-school craftsmanship from the family-owned Northeast footwear purveyor.

The brand has been doing things the right way, the hard way and in a very intensely involved manner, for decades, using the finest leathers, hand-crafted finishes — as with these hand-stitched moccasin-style loafers — and exacting attention to detail. Bolstered by a Vibram mini lug outsole, these loafers are sturdy and made to be broken in, particularly with classic cotton chinos or rolled light wash jeans.

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If you’re considering just one purchase this weekend to carry you through August, that’d be these handsome leather loafers — they even pair perfectly with last week’s Friday Find, this meticulously hand-printed Huckberry shirt. Here’s to another stylish weekend, my friends — cheers!

by Beau H.

The Friday Find: Flint and Tinder’s Block Print Camp Collar Shirt Is My New Summer Go-To

My friends, we’re back on a lovely summer Friday here in Brooklyn, hot on the heels of an absolutely stunning trip last week to Scotland and Northern Ireland (with Loch Lomond Malts and Two Stacks Irish Whiskey!) as part of my many freelance writing pursuits. For more of my spirits writing, you should also check out my byline at Maxim.com.

And you can — and should! — keep up with all the fun on my Instagram, but for now, let’s switch things up ever so slightly to start your weekend off the right way.

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Consider this an occasional departure from the norm: Most every Friday, I spotlight what I’ve been reading and writing, where I’ve been traveling and from time to time, what to shop and sip. So, the Friday Find series will do more of the same, but in a digestible form (and the Friday Read will still appear here regularly, my friends!).

But for now, let’s dive into one stellar product I’ve been loving — and wearing — lately. And of course, you can still expect two weekend style dispatches heading your way Saturday and Sunday. Now, to business with one of my new favorite summer shirts.

There’s no time like the present to embrace the second half of summer with some serious pattern and color. And while Flint and Tinder’s lineup of menswear from our good friends at Huckberry normally leans a touch more rugged — from USA-made T-shirts to stretch denim — the Flint and Tinder Block Print Camp Collar Shirt is a breezy change of pace I can’t help but appreciate.

Available right now for under $75 via the stellar Huckberry Summer Sale (more on that to follow over the weekend), the handsome Flint and Tinder Block Print Camp Collar Shirt lives up to its name with a custom, hand-blocked print blending subtle navy and a vibrant tan-orange pattern.

It’s fun, it’s fresh, it’s a departure from more typical Hawaiian-printed shirts, and the Flint and Tinder Block Print Camp Collar Shirt nails a dash of retro style with its classic camp collar design. In short, if you’re looking for one shirt to buy this weekend and rock the rest of summer — from the beach to a boardwalk to a BBQ — then the Flint and Tinder Block Print Camp Collar Shirt is just what Dr. Huckberry ordered, you might say. Cheers to that, my friends — and thanks for tagging along for the ride in our new Friday Find series!