Unbuttoned - G. Bruce Boyer's Life In Clothes

Introducing Riffs

Bruce Boyer has a new book out called "Riffs: Random Reflections on Jazz, Blues, and Early Rock." You can find it now in most major bookstores and online. It's a collecti

Bonus Episode: Beards and Jeans

Bruce has sported a beard since the 1960s and he explains how that gives him more in common with the counter-culture than you would have thought. Plus, an excerpt of Bruc

Bonus Episode: Vitale Barberis Canonico

Bruce and I both have a long relationship with the Italian mill VBC, as journalists, collaborators and friends. In this special episode, Bruce shares his experiences with

Bonus Episode - Anderson & Sheppard

Bruce Boyer has been commissioning suits, jackets and trousers from London's famed tailoring house Anderson & Sheppard for over four decades. In that time, he has gotten

Chapter Six: fashion journalism in the 70s and 80s

Almost fifty years ago, Bruce Boyer left the world of academia to pursue a career in menswear writing and journalism. Since that time, he's witnessed the fashion magazine

Chapter Five: America's greatest tailors and shirtmakers

Bruce Boyer has worked with an awful lot of craftspeople over the last sixty years. Some, as a customer or collaborator. Some, as a journalist and documentarian. And almo

Chapter Four: Hollywood's greatest style icons

In the first three chapters of this podcast series, we discovered Bruce Boyer's founding inspirations: Ivy League, Savile Row and Italian Style. But what was missing is n

Chapter Three: lessons in Italian Style

Throughout his life, Bruce has witnessed the rise of Italian Style, starting with post-war cinema and early "Made in Italy" fashions and culminating with the generations

Chapter Two: visiting London's Savile Row tailors

Bruce Boyer has been visiting London's Savile Row - the birthplace of tailoring - for almost sixty years. He shares stories of some of the tailors he's met along the way

Chapter One: college life in the 50s and 60s

Bruce Boyer has been wearing Ivy League-style clothes for decades. In this episode, he talks about how he feel in love with the look and why he's stuck with it, through t

Prologue - Listen to this one first

Coming May 15, a podcast that explores six decades of menswear through the experiences and memories of someone on the front lines. Stories that reveal not only so much ab