Put This On

23 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 10 years ago - ★★★★★ - 178 ratings

Put This On is men's style for men who want to dress like grownups. Let Jesse Thorn and Adam Lisagor guide you through the world of style with a sharp eye and sharp humor.

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Episodes

Fashion in an Age of Crisis (Short)

February 08, 2014 06:02 - 3 minutes - 155 MB Video

Benjamin Harrison talks to G. Bruce Boyer about the menswear of the 1930s. Boyer curated the male half of the Fashion Institute of Technology Museum's show Fashion in an Age of Crisis: Fashion in the 1930s.

S2E6: Consolidation

October 03, 2013 00:21 - 11 minutes - 95.2 MB Video

Gucci Gucci Louis Louis Fendi Fendi Prada… what happens when a hundred artisans’ shops become a few global megacompanies? We went to Milan, Italy, to talk to small-scale makers who work in the shadow of fashion conglomerates like Prada. It’s one of our most ambitious episodes and the grand finale of our season. Take Antonio Pio Mele, a cobbler who makes shoes by hand in a small shop in central Milan. He’s grateful that huge brands occasionally hire him to make samples, but he’s angry they r...

S2E5: Elegance

October 03, 2012 21:51 - 13 minutes - 104 MB Video

Put This On is in Milan, one of the world's fashion capitals. We visit Carlo Barbera mill and Luciano Barbera, its legendary leader. We talk with the owner of the world's most remarkable men's accessory store, G. Lorenzi, and a Milanese dandy, Salvatore Battello of W-D Man. Then we show you which shoes go with which color suit, and Dave Hill offers a rudiment.

S2E4: Eccentric Style

July 17, 2012 19:06 - 13 minutes - 109 MB Video

Put This On, a web series about dressing like a grownup, visits London, where we visit with a few of the distinctive personalities that help make London a special place.

S2E3: (New) Traditions

June 19, 2012 20:31 - 11 minutes - 95.5 MB Video

Put This On visits London to look at the ways it has been shaped by (and has reinvented) its menswear traditions. We visit W. Bill, the legendary tweed vendor in a basement just off Savile Row. We talk with the painter and musician Ian Bruce about how he's reshaped the legacy of the SoHo dandy. We visit the Drake's factory to see how a tie is made. Then we go to Savile Row, and chat with tailor-owner Richard Anderson and owner-designer Patrick Grant about the tension between old and new in ...

S2E2: Eclecticism

April 11, 2012 19:55 - 14 minutes - 87.1 MB Video

In New York, Jesse goes thrifting with the guys from Street Etiquette, plus what's inside a suit coat, Rudiments with Dave Hill, Lewis Lapham, Jay Kos and more.

S2E1: The Melting Pot

March 14, 2012 14:46 - 13 minutes - 156 MB Video

In New York City, we learn about 'Lo Heads, meet Jason Marshal, visit Worth and Worth hat shop and learn how to pack a suit.

PTO Man: Sean Crowley

March 12, 2012 03:00 - 1 minute - 10.5 MB Video

Sean Crowley is a neckwear designer who lives in Brooklyn with his collection of thousands of vintage neckties.

Dave Hill at Fashion Week 2012

March 09, 2012 21:00 - 4 minutes - 71.5 MB Video

Dave Hill hits the Ralph Lauren show at Fashion Week to make some friends and do some blow.

PTO Man: Bruce Boyer

March 08, 2012 14:37 - 1 minute - 9.75 MB Video

Author Bruce Boyer says that there's nothing wrong with being rumpled.

Donegal Tweed

November 20, 2011 22:20 - 4 minutes - 107 MB Video

A brief travelogue from Donegal's Molloy and Sons, a father-son tweed manufacturer.

Dave Hill at New York Fashion Week

September 16, 2011 16:39 - 3 minutes - 43.7 MB Video

Our intrepid correspondent Dave Hill visits New York Fashion Week, and leaves only rubble in his wake.

Kickstart Season Two of PTO!

September 01, 2011 05:08 - 1 minute - 17 MB Video

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Ep. 7: Personal Style

July 25, 2011 19:50 - 10 minutes - 120 MB Video

Episode seven of Put This On explores personal style - elegant, quirky, distinctive and everywhere in between. Field correspondent Dave Hill visits the annual meeting of the Corduroy Appreciation Club, held each year on 11/11, the date which most resembles corduroy. Then Roxana Altimirano brings a new Nerd Boyfriend segment, with an investigation of an icon of eccentric style, Andre Benjamin, aka Andre 3000 of Outkast. Plus: a conversation with one of the world’s most elegant men, Gay Tal...

Episode 6: Body

June 23, 2011 04:03 - 13 minutes - 153 MB Video

We visit CEGO Custom Shirtmaker in New York, learn about dressing for your body type from Alan Flusser and alter a dress shirt in Los Angeles.

Glenn O'Brien on The Sound of Young America

June 17, 2011 03:20 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MB

GQ's Style Guy, Glenn O'Brien, talks to Jesse Thorn on Jesse's public radio show, The Sound of Young America. O'Brien's new book is called How To Be A Man.

Alan Flusser

May 23, 2011 16:20 - 3 minutes - 44.7 MB Video

In this special micro-episode of Put This On, we present a conversation with menswear expert Alan Flusser. Flusser has written the seminal American texts on getting dressed: Style & the Man and Dressing the Man. He runs Alan Flusser Custom in Manhattan, and famously dressed Michael Douglas for the film Wall Street. Alan's not a designer or a tailor - he's more like a consiglieri, guiding men towards their best appearance.

Ep. 5: Tradition

May 09, 2011 04:24 - 9 minutes - 114 MB Video

A visit with a true style traditionalist at a true bastion of traditional style, J. Press. Then a visit with a traditionlist who's also a revolutionary, Thom Browne.

Ep. 4: Grooming

February 11, 2011 07:04 - 11 minutes - 137 MB Video

Jesse visits the barber, shows you the classic wet shave and teaches you how to prevent yellow underarm stains.

Lyndon Johnson Orders Pants

January 21, 2011 01:18 - 2 minutes - 31.1 MB Video

In 1964, Lyndon Johnson needed pants, so he called the Haggar clothing company and asked for some. The call was recorded (like all White House calls at the time), and has since become the stuff of legend. Johnson’s anatomically specific directions to Mr. Haggar are some of the most intimate words we’ve ever heard from the mouth of a President.