Every men's clothing topic that starts with S, part one - sandals, scrubs, shirts, shoes, short sleeve shirts and shorts, and the complete silk collection from boxer shorts to ties.
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Welcome to the S section of the Men's Clothes Guide - the joint-largest letter in the guide, with forty-nine topics spread across this page and its two companions, Page 2 and Page 3. S is the letter of the wardrobe's foundations: the shirt and the shoe, the short and the sandal, and then - in a folder of their own - the complete silk collection. This section is for finding clothes and fashion accessories that start with the letter S. Are there more clothing categories that start with S? Probably yes - we are only human. If you know another men's apparel category beginning with S that belongs in this directory, we would be glad to hear the suggestion.
Page 1 covers the alphabet from sandals to silk ties: twelve guides that between them dress a man for the office, the clinic, the beach and the most polished evening of his year. Pages 2 and 3 continue from skate apparel to swimwear, and the three pages' grids together list every S topic exactly once.
The letter opens with the garments a man reaches for daily. Shirts maps the whole family by collar and cloth, and short sleeve shirts takes its warm-weather branch - camp collars, guayaberas and summer fabrics. Shoes is the map of closed footwear from oxford to loafer, while sandals covers the open end of the same subject, footbeds and straps. Shorts settles the inseam question that decides whether warm-weather dressing looks sharp or accidental.
Scrubs stands apart as the working uniform of medicine - the matched sets engineered for the laundry and the twelve-hour shift - and it points onward to the letter's surgical cluster on Page 3, where caps, clothing and masks complete the clinical wardrobe.
Six of this page's twelve guides form a single family: the silk collection, kept in its own folder because the fiber changes every garment it touches. Silk boxer shorts and silk pajamas treat the sleep and underwear end with strictly product-focused detail - momme weights, seam construction, the gentle laundry silk demands. Silk lounge pants covers the tailored end of home wear, silk socks the thinnest dress sock a man can buy, silk sweaters the fine-gauge knit with the liquid drape, and silk ties the fiber's most famous product, explained from bias cut to dimple.
Read together, the six make one argument: silk is not a luxury label but a set of physical behaviors - drape, glide, temperature regulation, delicacy - and every garment in the collection is the right or wrong application of those behaviors. The guides take them one at a time.
Use the grids as the letter's map: topics are alphabetical within each page, the silk family sits in its alphabetical place, and every chip leads to a complete guide - what the garment is, how to size and choose it, how to wear and care for it. The alphabet bar above reaches every other letter of the Men's Clothes Guide, and each topic guide links onward to its closest relatives in S and beyond.
Page 2 continues the S directory with twelve more topics - the skate family complete, ski pants and skiwear, slacks, sleepwear, the three slip-on guides and slippers - and Page 3 completes the letter with its final twenty-five, from sneakers to swimwear.
There's more! Page 2 of the S directory lists 12 more topics - the complete skate family, ski pants and skiwear, slacks, sleepwear, the slip-on shoes and slippers.
Continue to Page 2: Skate Apparel to Slippers »This hub indexes the Men's Clothes Guide S section. To browse where to buy, visit our men's clothing store directory, where you can find retailers that carry these garments.