Men's Clothes Guide S — Page 2

This is the second page of the Men's Clothes Guide S. Page 1 covered the letter from sandals through the silk collection; this page continues from skate apparel to slippers, listing twelve more topics. Page 3 completes the letter from sneakers to swimwear, and the three pages' grids together list every one of the letter's forty-nine topics exactly once, each opening a full guide.

Page 2 is the letter's active middle: four guides of skateboarding, two of the ski mountain, and then the quiet arts of the tailored slack, the considered night's sleep, and the shoe that asks nothing of laces.

A note on how this page's clusters were divided, because the divisions are the point: skate apparel and skatewear are not synonyms here but a product system and the wardrobe that contains it; the three slip-on guides separate the dress question, the loafer pattern and the whole laceless category so each can be answered properly; and slippers close the page because every laceless story ends, eventually, at the front door of a man's own house. Readers who arrive mid-letter from a search engine are one banner away from either end of the alphabet of S - the grids above and below are the whole map, in order.

The Skate Family and the Mountain

Skateboarding claims a full quarter of this page, and the four guides divide the subject the way the letter's readers actually ask about it. Skate apparel is the product system - abrasion engineering, gussets and heavyweight cloth. Skate shoes is the footwear instrument, soles and suede and board feel. Skate fashion is the style the culture exported to the whole of menswear, and skatewear is the umbrella guide that holds the wardrobe whole.

The mountain answers with two: ski pants, the membrane-rated, boot-gaitered bottom half of the snow system, and skiwear, the three-layer architecture complete - base, mid and shell - that makes winter altitude a clothing problem with a known solution.

Slacks, Sleep and the Laceless World

Slacks brings the page back to tailoring: the dress trouser as a separate, its cloths, its crease and its break. Sleepwear treats the night's clothing with the same product seriousness - sleep fabrics, seam placement and temperature, strictly as garments.

The page closes with the laceless family in three registers and a postscript. Slip-on dress shoes argues the formal case for the loafer and its gored cousins under a suit; slip-on loafers is the deep guide to the pattern itself, penny to horsebit; slip-on shoes surveys the whole category from canvas to comfort; and slippers takes the family home, to the most-worn shoe in a man's life.

How to Use This Letter

Page 1, Page 2 and Page 3 are one directory in three volumes: start at any of them, and the grids and the banner below will walk you around the whole letter. Every topic guide follows the same promise - what it is, how to choose and size it, how to wear and care for it - and links onward to its family.

Page 3 finishes the letter at full breadth: sneakers and soccer, the solid tees, the whole sports cluster, steel toes for the working week, streetwear, suits and sunglasses, the surgical trio, sweaters and sweats - and swimwear to close, forty-nine topics in all.

Page Two of the Letter S

Welcome to the second page of the letter “S” section of the clothing guide - more apparel categories that start with S, twelve of them: skate apparel, skate fashion, skate shoes, skatewear, ski pants, skiwear, slacks, sleepwear, slip-on dress shoes, slip-on loafers, slip-on shoes and slippers. That dozen is this page’s grid, each now a full guide, and it is always a good time to learn more about men’s fashion.