Picture this: It's the early 2010s and you're a young editor at Esquire. You're standing around the water cooler chatting about the latest plot twist in Breaking Bad , your voice a little hoarse after spending the previous night shout-singing "We Are Young" on Brass Monkey's dance floor. You nod to your co-workers as you head back to your desk, strutting across the floor in your peak #menswear look of 1940s factory worker, or 1950s Ivy League student, or 1960s member of the Rat Pack. Basically, you are dripping in classic Americana. Which, in the more menswear obsessed corners of the early 2010s, meant you were probably dripping in Wallace & Barnes .

Launched in 2011 as a high-end sub-label for J.Crew, Wallace & Barnes—with its focus on heritage style and premium materials and constru

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