Show Off Your Inner Designer with Lexdray’s New Symmetry Collection
Lexdray have created some excellent new bags with their Symmetry Collection. The neutral colors make it a solid choice for fall travel.
Accessorize in Horween Style with Nomad Goods
Quality leather is timeless and the Santa Barbara-based company Nomad Goods gets it right with its lineup of Horween leather iPhone accessories and wallets.
9 Tips on How to Waterproof Shoes Ahead of Winter Weather
Buying new winter boots is a fall tradition. Here are a few tips and tricks to help protect your new footwear and a guide on how to waterproof shoes.
Will Athletes Shy away from these $1,200 Nike Wing Sunglasses?
Geared towards improving the performance of Olympic athletes, Nike's uber-expensive Nike Wing sunglasses are drag-resistant, but also $1,200.
Drake & Hutch: Good English Socks for Fall
Drake & Hutch is making good English socks, designed in England and made in England, reviving a long history of textile manufacturing.
Customize to your heart’s content with Sili sunglasses
Promising stronger materials, advanced optics, and customization, Sili sunglasses blew past its Kickstarter campaign goal after just a week on the site.
Combatant Gentlemen Opens an L.A. Store
Combatant Gentlemen, famous for its incredible high-end clothes at absurdly reasonable prices, has opened its first retail location in Santa Monica.
High Tech Socks Help Fund Cure for EB
Mack Weldon created special edition socks to help find the cure for Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), often called the worst disease you've never heard of.
WeWood Saves Forests With Wooden Watches
WeWood not only makes sophisticated wooden timepieces, they plant a tree for every watch sold. That's translated to almost half a million new trees.
Subscribe To Effortless Cool With SprezzaBox
SprezzaBox is a monthly subscription box for men delivering accessories and lifestyle products.
Get Your Kicks with Toecap: Combatant Gent Shoes
Combatant Gentlemen launches stylish men's shoes at ridiculously low prices.
Original Grain gives the wooden watch market a welcome influx of style
As seen in recent years, implementing wood into a timepiece is one of the watch industry’s most significant new trends. Manufacturers at companies all over the United States (and beyond) have taken to the task of either making an entire watch out of wood — save for the timepiece itself — or using it sparingly […]
Historic cycling company Brooks England debuts its high-quality bag collection
Brooks England, a premier name in the world of cycling, just unveiled its high quality line of commuter bags dubbed the 2016 Metropolitan collection.
Acustom Apparel: The Custom Future
With Acustom Apparel's advanced body scanning technology, custom clothing has never been more accurate or affordable.
Timex debuts its first foray into activity tracking tech with the Metropolitan+
Watch manufacturer Timex recently got into the activity tracking game with its Metropolitan+, a fashion-forward and functional watch for those on-the-go.
Boston & Stewill Find Inspiration in a Vintage Buggati
We all love an underdog and Boston & Stewill is exactly that, a brand starting from nothing to take on the giants of style and watchmaking.
The Lodge Opens in the East Village
Good news for fans of The Lodge: the most-excellent retailer of made in America men’s accessories has opened its first doors in New York City’s East Village.
Will Leather Goods trains home to Eugene’s Fifth Street Market
Bill Adler's Will Leather Goods opened its latest shop in the company's hometown of Eugene, Oregon, transforming an old boxcar into a stylish boutique.
Restrap gets in the belt game with Link
Leeds-based bicycle accessory company Restrap took to Kickstarter to help launch Link, the company's extremely functional, yet wildly stylish new belt.
See life through a photo filter with Tens sunglasses
Tens sunglasses used a successful Indiegogo campaign to bring its photo filter-style sunglasses to everyone looking to add vivid color to everyday life.
Reintroducing Breda: Watches for Self Expressionists
Reintroducing Breda: Watches for Self Expressionists
New York City music and art shine with Brooklyn Spectacles
Brooklyn entrepreneur Jenny Ma infuses a unique blend of music, art, and creativity in each of Brooklyn Spectacles' trendy collections.
SlimTECH’s Wallet Is the Ultimate Pocket Accessory
SlimTECH’s design not only feels sensible but also eliminates unwanted bulk from leather stretched out over time by users.
Brewsees: Don’t Leave Home Without Them
They're glasses, they're bottle openers, they're a work of genius. They're Brewsees.
TGIF Shopping: The Trash Bag by Travelteq
Amsterdam-based Travelteq reinvents their signature "Trash Bag" with some new features. This versatile bag can handle whatever the day brings your way.
Meet Up Mondays: Waltzing Matilda
Mike Balitsaris’s handcrafted leather sandals, bags and accessories are some of the most original-looking accessories on the market imbued with memory.
Bryer Leather: Handcrafted in California
A man’s wallet and bag say a lot about his taste and sensibilities. If you’re looking for a new way to carry your bacon, or just for a new bag to make your weekend getaway, look no further than Bryer Leather. San Diego-native Thomas Brierton is the creative genius behind Bryer’s handcrafted accessories. He has […]
Feel Good Friday – Carhartt WIP X Ikku
You know we love it when a beautifully designed, ethically sound collab comes together. Our latest fave is this awesome four-piece collection of technology sleeves, the totally legitimate love child of Carhartt Work In Progress and Amsterdam-based accessory brand Ikku. A trio of buddies, Daniel Archutowski, Frank Bleker and Janneke Grootings, established Ikku in 2012. […]
Feel Good Fridays: These bags are on fire
It’s Friday and we wanna make you feel good. So this week, we’d like to introduce you to our new favorite eco-responsible accessories brand, Elvis & Kresse. The British brand began in 2005 when design duo Elvis- aka James Henrit- and Kresse Wesling discovered a decommissioned fire hose, previously used by the London fire brigade. […]
Herschel Supply Co. X Champion: Awesome Every Day Bags
Herschel Supply Co. X Champion Collaborative Bag Collection
The Manual Wind: Summer Rubber B
Rubber B straps have transformed the aftermarket and finally brought Rolex enthusiasts what they have been waiting for. Rubberb.com
Soak Up The Sun (With Your Q&Q Watch)
Q&Q (Quest for Quality) SmileSolar watches are an insane collection of waterproof watches in rubber or canvas.
Wolfgang Man & Beast’s Sweet Gear for Dogs and Their People
Your dog's got your back in a way that no human friend could, so Wolfgang designed the Man & Beast line, since he should always look as fresh as you do.
Marwood London – Shaking up Neckwear Since 2010
Some of the most worthwhile designs ever produced were created because someone, somewhere, felt that what was available wasn’t good enough. This was the case for Becky French in 2010. After compiling a blog of inspirational images of razor-sharp neckwear and sketches, the London-based creative decided to call off the search for the perfect necktie […]
SoHo’s Newest Hook: Miansai
Miansai presents an entire universe of men’s accessories rugged enough to appeal to the less fashion-conscious.
GQ x Gap Best New Menswear Designer In America Collection
Here’s a tip, find some time this weekend and head over to your local Gap. The classic American brand, best known for its jeans and relaxed style, has teamed up with some of the most talented emerging designers in menswear. For a limited time, Gap will feature exclusive collections designed by GQ’s four Best New […]
Filson’s Spring Offerings
As far as heritage brands go, Filson is all about honesty, quality and durability. The brand, which was founded in 1897 with the intent to protect from harsh weather conditions like what Hume Nisbet experienced in the Yukon in 1897: “Try to recall your sensations on the coldest night you have ever known: try to […]
Octovo: A Brand To Bring With You
We love tech, and we love style, so it is no surprise that Octovo, a new leather accessories company caught our eye. The brand, which recently launched in July, offers everything from iPad cases (small and large), to pocket wallets, weekender bags and travel wallets.
Qwstion AW13 – Kick Ass Bags for the Modern Man
If you’ve ever experienced that distressing moment where you open your wardrobe to realize you’ve somehow accumulated a small avalanche of bags for slightly differing purposes, you’re going to seriously love this brand. Championing an innovative ‘one bag suits all purposes’ ethos, Swiss brand Qwstion produce truly multi-purpose bags that will smoothly integrate into practically […]
Stanley & Sons — A New Generation of American Made
We here at The Manual, love true brand heritage, as does Chris Grodzki. Chris is the founder of Stanley & Sons Apron & Bag Supply Company. His grandfather (Stanley) had an apron and supply company two generations ago. Based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and dedicated to bags and aprons all made by hand, this new venture […]
Love your Leather Bag Like a Pro
We love a leather bag. Evidently, so do the girls at Fairchild Baldwin. Design team Jill Fairchild and Karen Baldwin put their fashion backgrounds to good use and launched the brand in 2012. Since then, their rep for creating smart, sartorially sound bags for the jet-set man about town has grown steadily. And their discerning use of sumptuous, high-quality […]
Bonafide Goods: For the Modern Man
Bonafide Goods is the newest haberdashery in Phoenix specializing in Americana and quality men’s clothing.
Sunglasses to feel awesome in by Surface to Air
We can’t think of a better way to celebrate the fashionably late arrival of summer this year than with the inaugural eyewear collection of one of our favorite brands. Surface to Air’s new sunnies collection comprises 11 styles that fuse elements of the failsafe classics we love, with the kind of super fresh updates that […]
A chat with the guys at STAG
In 2009, Steve Shuck and Don Weir were pissed off. The scarcity of menswear stores in Austin was at an all time low, and the pair struggled to identify any single destination that provided all manner of man stuff – accessories, gadgets, grooming, etcetera. Fortunately, their disgruntlement led to the birth of STAG, a modern-day […]
The Manual’s Top 5 Caps that won’t make you Look like the Fresh Prince of Bel Air
This summer is all about caps. Yes indeed, its time to channel your boyhood days when you wouldn’t part with your beloved Yankees or Chicago Bulls version and get back in the cap game. We understand it can feel a little odd at first but find one you like and lean into it for a […]
Get Buc Wild !
There is nothing like a new, fresh and clean pair of bucs. They traditionally came in just two colors, dusty, often called ‘dirty’, or white. But today, there are so many more colors and styles from which to choose. Nubuck is top-grain cattle leather that has been sanded or buffed on the grain side, or […]