The Fit Check — the Style.It menswear blog

• The white t-shirt guide: fit, fabric, and the ones worth buying — A great white tee is cheap, but a good one is specific. Here is what to look for in the fit, the fabric, and where to actually spend.
• How clothes should fit: the three checks that settle everything — Shoulder seam, trouser break, taper. Get those three right and cheap clothes look expensive. Get them wrong and no label can save you.
• Five outfit formulas you can run on autopilot — The best-dressed guys stopped making morning decisions years ago. Five formulas that work every time, and the two rules underneath all of them.
• Date night outfits that don't try too hard — Look like you made an effort without revealing how much. The one-notch rule, the dark knit uniform, and the walk test.
• What to wear to a cookout (without looking like you tried) — The hardest easy dress code of the summer: put together enough for the photos, relaxed enough for the lawn games. The formula, before the long weekend.
• The 18-piece summer capsule that actually works — Eighteen pieces where every top works with every bottom. Not a minimalism sermon, just closet math that ends the morning negotiation.
• Shorts, decoded: the inseam is everything — Five, seven or nine inches. Where the hem lands decides whether shorts look intentional or like you gave up, and the rest is fabric.
• Old money style without old money — Quiet luxury is mostly fit, fabric and restraint. The five pieces that carry the whole look for about $250 total.
• The three-sneaker rotation — You don't need a wall of shoes. You need a white leather pair, a retro runner, and one wildcard, each with a different job.
• Linen wrinkles. Wear it anyway. — The fabric that keeps you alive in July comes with a catch. How to pick linen that rumples instead of creases, and why crisp was never the goal.
• What to wear to a summer wedding when the invite tells you nothing — Dress codes are dying and nobody sent a memo. Here is the outfit math that works for almost every summer wedding, and the three things you still can't wear.