Men Style's buyer guide: the good, the bad, and the unaffordable

Every year Men.Style asks shoppers for the country's biggest (Saks, Barneys, et al) and coolest (Jake, Jeffrey) shops for their sartorial shopping recommendations for the new season. The shopping guide is predictably preposterous, with the cheapest items consisting of beat-up t-shirts and Michael Kors short shorts. Here is our guide to the guide.

The good: the shoes.


The Gordon Rush royal-blue suede chukka boot. As Carrie Bradshaw once said to a pair of Jimmy Choo slingbacks: hello, lover.


Marc Jacobs suede laceups. They cost $500, just about affordable enough.

Pierre Hardy's chukka boots are today's answer to Serge Geinsburg's preppy repettos.


The bad. There's no reason to


From consistently overpriced Surface 2 Air, this exemplary t-shirt - simple in design and execution, will set you back $80.


The Bergdof Goodman buyer says that every surfer needs a good beach anorak - picture, Michael Bastian's - but we guarantee you reader that to afford this little nugget they'll have to pawn the surfboard first.

The unaffordable. There are many (Many!) things in this list that we crave, such as the Ralph Lauren Black label olive linen suit, but at the top of our list is this leather jacket worthy of Purple Magazine's Olivier Zahm.


Rag & Bone, $1,850 at The Archive in San Francisco.