🥳 Publication Day!! 🎉 Suitable is officially available for sale in bookstores TODAY! 📖 (Dogs remain suspicious 🐕) @academic.oup.com #newbook #bookstore #fashionhistory #americanhistory #author

Episode 6 of Disney Undressed is available now with guest Dr. Chloe Chapin @sexandstatus.bsky.social Join us for a chat about menswear and the styling of Disney men, including these guys! Images: Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Princess and the Frog (2009), The Little Mermaid (1989), Tarzan (1999)

Why are men’s suits so plain, and why black? 👔 "Suitable" traces the shift from flamboyant fashion to the understated suit, revealing how style became tied to power, identity, and democracy. We’re excited to share the cover. Take a look: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

💸 Goodreads Giveaway! 💸 Get Suitable for FREE! Goes live TODAY and runs through June 17. @academic.oup.com @readingdiscord.bsky.social #goodreadsgiveaway #fashionhistory #suitable

I got 👋 POSTCARDS 👋 for my book! 😍🤗 If you see someone accosting fashionable strangers on the street, that will be me hawking my book. Thanks to @academic.oup.com for the gorgeous promo material! (And for allowing me to have many opinions about the cover design 🤓).

Proofs for "George Washington: Fashion Icon" for Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Thrilled to be able to contribute this mic drop on men's fashion history 💃 to the <checks notes> *oldest scholarly publication in the country* 👀 #georgewashington #beaubrummell #mensfashionhistory

I wasn't at #oah2026 in Philly....but my book was! (Even though it's not out yet!) Thanks to Phil Deloria for snapping the photo.

“Washington was more than a Founding Father — he was America’s first fashion icon.” Chloe Chapin @sexandstatus.bsky.social, author of SUITABLE: The Sartorial Revolution & the Fashioning of Modern Men from @oxunipress.bsky.social in @washingtonpost.com ⬇️ www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Incredibly, men are still wearing ‘the George Washington’

The nation’s first president paved the way for the navy blazer and khaki pants.

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That navy-blazer-and-khakis look? That was George Washington's idea. Fascinating piece by the brilliant @sexandstatus.bsky.social (gift link) wapo.st/4rw4uyU

Opinion | Incredibly, men are still wearing ‘the George Washington’

The nation’s first president paved the way for the navy blazer and khaki pants.

wapo.st

Our “Clothes Make the Man” panel was standing room only at the SHEAR conference in Providence, RI this weekend! Plus, my attempt to cite the contemporary relevance of the sartorial legacy of George Washington got the biggest laugh of the conference 💅 #SHEAR2025

Not all men dress alike; this we know. The history of the plain, uniform suit isn't a history of fashion—it's a history of power. My book "Suits" isn't gonna be your usual take on menswear.

Dudes dress alike. Why? Read my book. Oxford 2026.

The suit is dead. Long live the suit!