Johnny Motley

1 week ago | coolmaterial.com | Beau Hayhoe |Johnny Motley

To talk about the best indigo menswear, you’ve got to go back millennia. Indigo is a naturally occurring deep blue dye that now finds itself put to great use in the world of men’s style. Ever spotted a denim jacket with a distinct fade? A button-down shirt with an almost surreal, blurred quality? That all comes through thanks to indigo dye. Indigo dye can be applied to plenty of familiar style staples, most notably cotton denim, known as selvedge, that hasn’t been pre-washed.

2 weeks ago | coolmaterial.com | Beau Hayhoe |Johnny Motley

After a grueling day of yard work or a tough day on the job, a crisp, cold beer (preferably something cheap and crushable) beckons. Your grandfather and your dad used to reach for the good stuff, you do the same nowadays. Timberland PRO’s new collection with Pabst Blue Ribbon celebrates the ideal blend of cold lager, hard work and rugged style. It’s available right now online, at flagship Timberland stores, and select wholesale outlets.

2 weeks ago | insidehook.com | Johnny Motley

Back in college, I earned a semester-long suspension after getting escorted out of a 500-person auditorium by the Boston Police Department for derailing a celebrity professor’s lecture. Per the pledging rules enforced by my upperclassmen “brothers,” the fraternity initiation prank demanded my carrying of a Power Rangers lunch box stocked with Marlboro Reds, condoms, Twinkies and bourbon.

2 weeks ago | coolmaterial.com | Johnny Motley

It’s now consistently warm enough in Brooklyn to retire my leather jacket and flannels. My selvedge denim will soon follow them into storage. Shorts weather has arrived—and with it, two important implications. First, you can no longer get away with skipping leg day. Second, you must invest in flattering shorts and tweak your wardrobe to complement them. Shorts are neither as dressy as chinos nor as versatile as jeans. For all their comfort and convenience, they’re trickier to pull off.

3 weeks ago | coolmaterial.com | Johnny Motley |Beau Hayhoe |Brett Braley

As a wayward journalist in New York, I have a soft spot for the film Bright Lights, Big City—a neon-lit fever dream starring Michael J. Fox as Jamie Conway, a debauched yet oddly endearing writer. As Conway stumbles through nightclubs, office corridors, and women’s bedrooms across Manhattan, he sports distinctive sartorial armor: a tweed blazer, crisp khakis, and always, a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers—worn even indoors to mask his bloodshot, cocaine-blown eyes.