Things We Love

CELEBRATING ALL THINGS MADRAS

As featured in MR Magazine, article by KAREN ALBERG GROSSMAN MAY 15, 2023 It was a wonderful celebration of all things madras last week at t...

aftershave bay rum

Featured in "18 Best Aftershaves for Men to Feel Smooth"

The aftershave’s rich and warm aroma mixes the best bay oil from the West Indian Bay Tree with several natural essences, including cinnamon, cloves...

Barrelsmith’s Barrel Aged Negroni & Other Great Cocktails

Barrelsmith sources base spirits from award winning distilleries but blends its own Rosso vermouth, liqueur and bitters. The final cocktails are th...

Things We Love - Photographer Hans Noordanus

Very few can pull it off in quite the way PrepFamily does. Scroll through his IG and take inspiration from his singular sense of style.

Things We Love - Quaker Marine & The Oysterman

Long days in the sun, where you go between lowering your head for a snooze and lifting it to scan the horizon—there’s a hat for that. Windswept day...

Things We Love - The Great Jimmy Smith

There are some major musical instruments, instruments for which a great deal of music has been written, that just don't seem to lend themselves ...

Things We Love - G. Bruce Boyer

How I Write By G. Bruce Boyer Every once in a while I get asked, particularly if I’m talking to young people interested in becoming fashion write...

Things We Love - A String of Pearls

“A poor man wants the oyster; a rich man wants the pearl” - Elvis Presley What is it about a string of pearls against a black cashmere sweater tha...

Things We Love - The J Press OCBD Flap Pocket Shirt

No Logo Required ; I’m sporting the flap. Q: Is there a shirt more iconically American than the Oxford Cloth Button Down – OCBD – shirt? A: No Q: ...

Things We Love - Botany Bay Rum

Drink in the history of the Virgin Islands. Our friends and neighbors from Old Estate Rums on St Thomas, USVI are finally bringing their premium r...

Things We Love - A 1970’s BMW 2002

When I was 15 years old I got into a bit of trouble in boarding school and was suspended for the weekend. As my mother lived 1,000 miles away I was...

Things We Love - Don't Stop The Carnival

Norman Paperman Actually, we love Herman Wouk, who passed last month at the age of 103, and was best known for his historical novels The Winds of W...