What Does it Mean to be Sagaciously Stylish?
Introducing The Statutes of Sagacious Style
There is a word I’m rather fond of: sagacious.
It’s not a word you hear every day, which is a pity. It has such a nice mouth feel.
Sagacious means wise, perceptive, possessing sound judgement — the sort of judgement that tends to arrive only after one has bought a few questionable jackets in the past.
And yet, it seems to me that the most interestingly dressed men often possess exactly this quality.
They are not chasing trends.
They are not frantically refreshing fashion blogs.
They are simply making good decisions.
Which brings us to nicely around House of D’s strap line:
Sagaciously Stylish Menswear
Now you might reasonably ask what that means.
After years of observing my husband D — whose wardrobe expansion continues at a rate that would alarm most municipal storage authorities — I have come to a conclusion:
Style, when it’s done properly, is rarely accidental.
It is a quiet form of wisdom.
There are, of course, no official laws governing good style.
No International Tribunal of Tweed.
No Supreme Court of Corduroy.
No parliamentary committee tasked with regulating waistcoat deployment.
And yet.
After years of close observation, it has become clear that certain principles of good judgement appear again and again among the most interestingly dressed people.
So, I have taken the entirely reasonable step of drafting them into something resembling legislation.
And so in my next musing, I will present to you:
The House of D Statutes of Sagacious Style…