Men's Clothes Guide V

The letter V is really two wardrobes in one folder. At the front stand the modern staples built around a single letterform - the V-neck in its shirt, sweater, T-shirt and undershirt forms, the vest in its tailored, quilted and knitted families, and the vicuña coat, the rarest overcoat in menswear. Behind them opens the largest vintage collection in the Men's Clothes Guide: twenty guides to buying, dating, fitting and caring for the clothing of earlier decades, from denim and Levi's to suits, shoes and eyewear.

Read the modern grid first if you are building today's wardrobe. The four V-neck guides are deliberately separated, because the neckline does a different job on each garment: on the V-neck shirt it is the visible design, on the V-neck T-shirt a matter of depth and drape, on the V-neck undershirt a disappearing act under an open collar, and on the V-neck sweater a frame for the shirt and tie beneath. The vests guide maps the sleeveless families, and the vicuña coats guide explains the fiber, the tailoring and the specialist care at the very top of the overcoat market.

The Vintage Collection

The vintage guides share one discipline - measure the garment, grade its condition honestly, and clean it gently - but each takes its own garment's side of that discipline. Vintage apparel is the umbrella overview and vintage clothing the garment-by-garment wardrobe builder, while vintage fashion covers eras and how to wear them today. The denim cluster splits three ways: vintage denim the fabric and its fades, vintage jeans the garment and its fits, and vintage Levi's the single most collected name in the field.

The tailored and outerwear guides - vintage coats, vintage jackets and vintage suits - concentrate on canvas, shoulders and the alterations vintage tailoring allows. Vintage pants and vintage shirts handle the high-waist rises and collar shapes that make old garments fit differently from modern ones. At the edges sit the specialists: vintage footwear and vintage shoes, divided between construction families and buying practice; vintage hats and vintage headwear, divided between classic hat styles and the broader run of caps and soft headwear; vintage eyewear; vintage fashion accessories; and the two vest guides - the vintage vest as a garment, vintage vests as a collecting field. The vintage men's clothes guide gathers the whole territory for the reader starting from zero.

How to use any guide here: it follows the same honest order - what the garment is, the fabrics and construction that decide quality, the fit points that decide comfort, and the care that decides lifespan. Vintage pages add the buyer's checks that old clothing demands: seams, stress points, smells, stains and the measurements that matter because a vintage size label is a rumor, not a fact. Use the alphabet bar above to reach the other letters of the Men's Clothes Guide, and the chips below to enter V at any point.

About This Directory

This section of the men's clothing guide is for finding clothes and fashion accessories that starts with the letter V . Are their more clothing categories that start with the letter V? Well, the answer is probably yes. Please keep in mind that we are only human. If you know other men's apparel categories that you think should be listed in this directory, please do not hesitate to contact us with your suggestions.