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‘To look good, you need to look masculine,’ says Ethan Newton of Bryceland’s Tailors, Tokyo

Style and substance: 'If only men who could would plan their wardrobes, and work with tailors, instead of asking their girlfriends what they should wear,' the world would be a better place, says Ethan Newton, proprietor of Bryceland's Tailors in the Jingumae district of Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. | CHRISTINA SJOGREN

By Philip Patrick
Contributing Writer

Jan 17, 2018

"Let me warn you, I have strong opinions."

Ethan Newton, the 38-year-old proprietor of niche menswear boutique Bryceland's and noted sartorialist, is putting me on notice. He is lounging on a sofa in a coffee shop in Tokyo's Jingumae district, garbed head (Basco Roma beret) to toe (St. Crispin's shoes), in bespoke finery. A double-breasted gray wool Martingala overcoat and navy wool suit from Liverano (Florence), Ascot Chang shirt (Hong Kong), Bryceland's seven-fold tie and Simonnot Godard pocket square (France) complete the ensemble.

As the promised strong opinions pour forth he seems the very embodiment of Gore Vidal's definition of a stylish man: one who knows who he is, what he wants to say and doesn't give a damn.