Jos A. Bank offers you a full refund on a new suit, if you buy one from them and get laid off by July 1st. The details are here.
Thanks Freakonomics.

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Nothing makes me laugh quite like my collection of t-shirts from Israel. I’m always searching for a lost shirt, one that said “The ShinBet is watching you.” in Arabic.
Another favorite is this one.

Until I recently, and completely, changed my style of professional attire – the navy pea coat was my jacket of choice.
Elegant in its simplicity, supremely comfortable and as warm as you could want — I’d wear this walking the mean streets of Sausalito or on tranquil strolls of New York City. I found my thinsulate [...]

Esquire is running a great slideshow showing the “Evolution of Men’s Style” from 1933 to 2008. I wish there was more commentary on each image — and even with forty some-odd images, I still wish there were more images, too! — but it’s a great primer for understanding teh last several generations of formal and [...]

Seems Belstaff, an Italian clothes-maker, decided to name a line after Steve McQueen and use his image to promote it. Perhaps asking the family would have been a good idea.
Stealing from the King of Cool: not cool.
Chadwick McQueen and The Terry McQueen Testamentary Trust say in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan [...]

Shop It To Me (dot com) is a simple service for getting alerts when your favorite clothing brands go on sale. Punch it in your favorite brands and your sizes and Shop It To Me will send you a daily or weekly alert, scanning retailers like Banana Republic, Zappos, and Nordstrom. While the site appears [...]

Esquire.com is running a short piece on Singaporean tailor who can turn out custom designer knock-off suits for about $600 a pop. And his employees seem to make a pretty fair wage, too, albeit not what would be paid to Saville Row cutters and sewers. [Esquire.com]

A travel agency executive, when asked about his company’s new nudist airline flights: “It’s an unusual gap in the market.”
Fly naked on Germany’s first nudist holiday flight [UK.Reuters.com]

I don’t wear polo shirts that often (upper or lower case), but I love this 40th anniversary Polo Collector’s Trunk from Ralph Lauren, which includes 40 different Polo shirts in a handsome leather case. Only five large!
I have never owned a Polo-brand polo shirt before. Is there anything that sets the brand name ones apart [...]

It’s a trick question: I just bought them, so they must be dapper.
Catalog Page [Zappos.com]

Dress clothier Jos. A. Bank is having an online “Cyber Monday” sale with many shirts around $25, with free shipping. [Dealnews]

Cordarounds latest iteration of their reversible smoking jacket now features “Vagisoft” pockets, which they describe as feeling like the “womb of a marshmallow mermaid.”
Product Page [Cordarounds.com]