Journal

Welcome to Part II of The Guide’s Guide to Fall Layering, FU’s wry, incisive look at the fine art of putting clothes on top of other clothes in such a way that you, as an appreciator of impeccable style, are left with a full heart and—maybe on a really good day—a gaggle of street style photographers tracking your every coming and going. In part one we went over structural hierarchy in layering theory (mark our words, we will see layering legitimized as a field of academic study in our lifetimes). You can—and should, if we may be so bold—check it...

The current, enlightened era of men’s style has revealed fall as the one true best season for the fashionable gent, and the reason is layering. Layering season brings with it sound, climate-science-backed excuses to prepare for the world every day by wearing two or more of your closet’s choicest pieces at once. Not because you’re low-key striving to typify the Mr. Autumn Man ethos (not only that, at least), but because the range of weathers and quirky indoor climates you might encounter in a given fall day is wide and unpredictable. It’s one of those situations in life where necessity...