The Heist Collection

Luxury men's shirts, the Carabinieri, Polizia, and a ring of Northern Italian thieves. How the hell did we get muddled up with this lot? Look, we...
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Queue Jumping for the perfect shirt

It’s August and the lads at the Italian workshop have packed it in for the month and are hitting the islands down south or cooling their...

in defense of elitism & black sheep

  I have always said that we never set out to sell shirts and were more than quite happy to go about our travels in our own manner.  Picking some...

Imperial Black Box Set: Resort

      Heading somewhere warm for the holidays?  Imperial Black has you covered with new box sets of our favorite light...

The Art of Holiday Packing

As you know we can be a bit obsessive about things.  The art of packing for travel is no exception. Years of crisscrossing the globe have taught us...

Meridian- Neither Here Nor There

Its the Meridian, that imaginary half of a great circle, curving from pole to pole that has us thinking about our journeys as of late. Where are we...

Brothers of the Cloth: M.W.

We always love it when we have a visitor at our North American outpost.  It provides a great opportunity to sit down and have some in depth talks...

Traveling & Writing

  "My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point...

What Am I Doing Here?

"Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.” ― Bruce Chatwin, What Am I Doing Here? It's not the worst of things to ask oneself, "What am I...

Why?

Force 7 Winds On An Atlantic Crossing If you would know the age of the earth, look upon the sea in a storm. The grayness of the whole...

A North Woods Sky

We are sitting next to the large purple buddleia.  It's dusky smell making itself known when allowed by the stiffening breeze coming off Sturgeon...